Comments | dahled: wow "Make Believe Maverick"

dahled

wow "Make Believe Maverick"

Oct 06, 2008 12:00

I'll do a full recap at some point (hopefully today) but you really gotta read this article in Rolling Stone about McCain. It's... wow... incendiary to say the least. Dives fully into his silver-spoon background and horrendous military history. Leave a comment

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stefan11 October 6 2008, 20:35:27 UTC

Good find, Sir. E.g., (on. p. 8, towards bottom):
At least three of McCain's GOP colleagues have gone on record to say that they consider him temperamentally unsuited to be commander in chief. Smith, the former senator from New Hampshire, has said that McCain's "temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him." Sen. Domenici of New Mexico has said he doesn't "want this guy anywhere near a trigger." And Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi weighed in that "the thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded."

dahled October 6 2008, 20:43:11 UTC

there're 2 other articles in the same issue too - more pointed at Palin - that had me literally lol

stefan11 October 6 2008, 20:51:38 UTC

The problem is, will it become a part of common-knowledge or, at elast, will undecided learn and think about those issues? Rolling Stone is main-stream. I think they will.

One way or another, I am glad that (unlike Kerry) Obama campain answers McCain's attacks and goes on counter-offensive. That's the lesson we learned from Clinton.

dahled October 6 2008, 21:13:01 UTC

the reason that this is big is that it's in Rolling Stone - hell it's the COVER of ROLLING STONE!! That and Letterman and TMZ getting Katie Couric talking about Palin and yeah, it's all over/in/about the common knowledge

stefan11 October 6 2008, 20:39:11 UTC

p. 9:
Privately, McCain brags that he was the "original neocon." And after 9/11, he took the lead in agitating for war with Iraq, outpacing even Dick Cheney in the dissemination of bogus intelligence about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. "There's other organizations besides Mr. bin Laden who are bent on the destruction of the United States," he warned in an appearance on Hardball on September 12th. "It isn't just Afghanistan. We're talking about Syria, Iraq, Iran, perhaps North Korea, Libya and others." A few days later, he told Jay Leno's audience that "some other countries" - possibly Iraq, Iran and Syria - had aided bin Laden ( ... )