While people lose their jobs, house, cars, families, retirement funds...
Republican John McCain and the right wing extremist press is back to their one note samba.
Let's look back on some of the more questionable issues of John McCain.
Denying information to familes of POWs.
His father in law's connection to the Arizona organized crime circles, and how the helped John McCain's rise in power.
And lots more...
As has been said...
At this point, McCain has taken the obvious way out—launching a series of distracting attacks on Barack Obama, with slim regard for truth. http://www.usnews.com/... http://www.time-blog.com/... http://features.csmonitor.com/... http://timesonline.typepad.com/... http://www.themansfieldherald.com/...
"There are good reasons Republicans are focusing on identity rather than issues this year: In poll after poll, there's not a single major issue on which the public agrees with them or their presumptive nominee. Not Iraq, certainly. Not the economy. Should the election turn on the question of "What are you going to do for America?" rather than "Are you a real American?" Republicans are doomed. They offer no solutions for the stagnation (or decline) of American living standards, or for the weakening of America's economic power. They offer no resolution to America's war of choice in Iraq. Their party leader, the incumbent president, let a great American city drown. They are the American party, and McCain the American nominee, that hasn't a clue about how to help America in its (prolonged, I fear) moment of need." http://www.washingtonpost.com/... http://www.washingtonindependent.com... http://www.vanityfair.com/... http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallas... http://www.bloomberg.com/...
"The Obama campaign had anticipated the Chicago Machine card would be played in the campaign and the candidate, himself, noted earlier this year that he felt he had done well in rising politically "without being entangled in some of the traditional problems of Chicago politics.
Robert Gibbs, a senior aide to Obama, discounted the McCain ad. Gibbs said he believed it was "highly ineffective" to try to link Obama to dishonored political machine politics when his elections to public office were due to "grassroots" voters and not "ward organizations or the political bosses."
"If you talk to any person in Illinois and ask them if Barack Obama came to power as part of some Chicago machine, I think they'd probably spend that 30 seconds laughing at you," Gibbs said." Chicago Tribune.
"He really wants to play the association game?" http://blogs.wsj.com/... http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/... http://www.chicagotribune.com/... http://www.usatoday.com/... http://online.wsj.com/... http://online.wsj.com/... http://blogs.wsj.com/... http://blogs.wsj.com/... http://www.portfolio.com/... When Mike Signorile is outing http://signorile2003.blogspot.com/... a member of his staff as gay? http://themoderatevoice.com/... When there's no record Ben Smith could find of the Manhunt donation being returned. http://www.politico.com/... When there's so much out there that hasn't been used by Obama http://www.cnbc.com/... http://www.nytimes.com/... or reported by the press? http://www.usatoday.com/...
"He ain’t never been the same since Vietnam..." ('Out Come The Freaks' Was Not Was) http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/... http://www.washingtonpost.com/... http://www.usatoday.com/...
So let's go there. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/... http://www.americablog.com/... http://voices.washingtonpost.com/... http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Let's go there now. http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjoh...
All republican candidate John McCain http://www.adn.com/... has left to say http://www.washingtonpost.com/... http://blogs.wsj.com/... is that he has to deceive the country to become president. http://www.madison.com/... http://www.washingtonpost.com/... http://blogs.wsj.com/... And just who wants a guy who does that? http://thinkprogress.org/... http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/... Seriously, Phil Gramm as his secretary of the treasury? http://www.washtimes.com/... http://thinkprogress.org/... http://www.politickerma.com/...
What McCain is really afraid of http://www.democrats.com/... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/... http://www.mattwelch.com/... http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com... http://www.kffl.com/... is that a paper like the NYTimes or Washington Post will publish more detailed stories about Jim Hensley - McCain's deceased father in law - and the Arizona organized crime circles http://www.inteldaily.com/... http://www.democrats.com/... http://tiodt.blogspot.com/... http://montereycountydemocrats.org/... that gave McCain his power and wealth.
Or more to the point, that all that barbecue got them to forget Keating Five.
Oh wait...Jonathan Alter just brought it up on cable. http://www.americablog.com/... That genie is coming out of the bottle...
Keating Five, http://www.thenation.com/... Keating Five, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/... Keating Five. http://www.newyorker.com/...
But it's the Arizona crime circles that connect to the murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. http://www.time.com/... Who was covering a story related to abortion. And McCain's running mate http://online.wsj.com/... made women pay for their rape kits, http://www.jedreport.com/... reported today on CNN. http://www.cnn.com/... And that same running mate http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com... http://themoderatevoice.com/... is so anti-abortion that she would allow incest over abortion. And let's not forget a certain...well, John McCain called it a joke. http://www.thenation.com/...
And of course, there's more... http://online.wsj.com/... there's that great piece in The Nation about how John McCain worked to keep information from families of POWs. http://www.nationinstitute.org/... And lest we forget how he voted against http://www.time.com/... medical care http://www.thenation.com/... for returning veterans http://www.newsleader.com/... from the occupation of Iraq and attack on Afghanistan. And used wounded vets as a political football http://www.jedreport.com/... http://men.style.com/... like the Twin Towers used in the video shown on the day of his GOP acceptance speech. An occasional error? http://www.dailykos.com/... Or a forgiving press? http://www.marketwatch.com/... http://www.time.com/...
As if anyone would pay attention http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... to any of all that...