I hate to be snippety, but I think that we have missed a huge opportunity to shut down the Bush/McCain/Lieberman myth of competence once and for all.
Yesterday, Michael Ware took John McCain’s delusional nonsense, crumpled it up, and tossed it into a burning trashcan. Yet, there was no major resonating around the blogs about it. Sure, there was mention of it and even posting of it on the major blogs, but it didn’t get the top priority that it deserved.
What Ware said yesterday was the raw, unfiltered truth. It was the truth that directly contradicted the ‘truth’ McCain had chided Mr. Blitzer about moments earlier. His account was a blistering revelation of realities that people like George Bush and John McCain recklessly abandon in order to perpetuate their own sense of credibility. Further, Ware even took aim at McCain’s credibility to boot.
Ware further reveals the marketing tactic that the ‘straight shooters’ are using to put a better light of the progress of their plan by using selective statistics. I think this is an omnipotently important statement:
From CNN
The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer
Ware:
“Is Baghdad any safer?
Sectatarian violence, one particular type of violence is down; but none of the American Generals here on the ground have anything like Senator McCain’s confidence.
“Senator McCain’s credibility now, which has been so solid now to this point, has been left out, hanging, to dry”
Imagine for a moment what would have occurred had Ware been knocking down a bogus theory from a Democrat? The echo would be deafening from the wingers, and in that case, were McCain’s remarks yesterday to come from any Dem, I would certainly want to know. Frankly, I should note that the duplicity behind McCain's remarks embody one primary reason that I am a Democrat.
It is my opinion that people across political boundaries both love and respect Michael Ware. Further, I feel strongly that those who know him trust his word over the word of John McCain and the President himself. Therefore, when I heard his assessment of the McCain lie, I thought that it would be everywhere I looked.
I am not big on perpetual echo chambers. However, like the classic air raid siren, wouldn’t it be nice to have one and fire it up when something really big crosses the horizon?
I think so.
UPDATE: Serendipity wrote an excellent diary about this today. I hope to see the rec list full of varying diaries on this topic.
EDIT I put caps in my title and fixed a punctuation error in P4.