I for one, am no longer astonished by George Bush's nerve. I am astonished that he still manages to astonish some people. The man is amoral period, and anything should be expected of him. The fact that he's still able to astonish suggests that our perception of him is sometimes faulty, meaning that there are still some things we feel he's above doing.
If Kerry understood this he would probably handle the current situation differently. Instead of defending himself by striking out blindly with a lot of name calling and talking about what he's no longer going to take he should explain the truth about Bush and Iraq. Something Like this:
Our brave young men and women are dying in Iraq today because of the lies and the incompetence of George Bush. The only thing different between Iraq today and Iraq six months from now, given this stay the course strategy, is that more Americans and more Iraqis will die but the situation on the ground will be basically the same if not worse. George Bush knows this, but he is callously prepared to let our brave young men and women die so he can prove that he's tough and he does not give up. He is prepared to allow American kids to die as he waits for the next President to clean up his mess.
As for McCain. What a sad spectacle.
After what Bush said and did to his wife and child, McCain should be asking for an apology from Bush instead of berating his so-called friend and fellow veteran John Kerry. Sadly though, it appears that the more brutal and abusive Bush was to his family the more sycophantish he became. Indeed, the tighter he embraced George Bush as if for dear life. Talk about Stockholm syndrome. John McCain knows how John Kerry feels about our men and women in uniform, so all it probably took was a call from his handlers in the Republican party to sic him on Kerry. The man who gave us the straight talk express has turned into a very tragic figure.