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 Posted - 08/01/2008 : 04:12:23
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I don't read Kos all that often but occasionally do a drive-by to see what's happening. Once in a while, I get lucky. The Great White Hope
by billmon
Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 11:37:58 AM PDT
The media's moment of disillusionment with John McCain appears to be at hand. Even Joe Klein has finally noticed that McCain's profile is beginning to resemble the endomorphic shadow of his backstage advisor, Karl Rove, not one of the faces on Mt. Rushmore.
It's all very predictable – about as predictable as the media's abrupt discovery in the summer of 2005, as New Orleans sank beneath the waves, that the president of the United States was, gasp!, an incompetent boob.
But anyone who's studied McCain's career with any intellectual detachment at all (as opposed to the hagiographic tendencies of his media cheerleading claque) could have told you: The truth about John McCain is that he'll do just about anything and say just about anything to win. He always has. He's just been more clever (and cynical) than most in how he goes about it.
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It continues to paint a pretty unflattering picture of McCain that, as far as I can tell from past observation, is quite accurate.
At one time, I was very active in the MIA/POW protest movement. I was one of the first to ride in Rolling Thunder, I passed out fliers and wrote imflamitory letters to bone-head polititions. McCain was an inspiration and something of a hero to us all. But I, and others, noticed that while he spoke many brave words, there was little action. As I recall, we did get some bones from Vietnam, some few of them identified as being from livestock.
I dropped out of Rolling Thunder after about 11 years due to them becoming a tool for the political right-wing.
At any rate, billmon tells a quite a compelling story.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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