Mark Salter, of the Mccain campaign, seems to have been having a bad day when he talked to Jeffrey Goldberg over at the atlantic.
I believe this speaks for itself.
The Kübler-Ross model first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book "On Death and Dying", describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness. The stages are known as the Five Stages of Grief.
(A little thanks to The Eyewitness Muse for reminding me of this)
The interview starts off in a very, shall we say, salty manner. Salter starts off on defense and he knows it, and he is not too happy with some people in the media and elsewhere.
GOLDBERG: What did you think of the Kirkpatrick story?
SALTER: I'm kind of pissed off about that. That and a few other things. I never even read For Whom the Bell Tolls. I had to read it for the second book (I wrote with McCain). I didn't pattern McCain's life on For Whom the Bell Tolls. It pissed me off. It's McCain's fucking story.
He goes on to blame everyone but himself for their problems:
GOLDBERG: How are you feeling about the press these days?
SALTER: Look, I think, starting with the Democratic primary, there has been a different standard for Obama than there has been for any candidate running against Barack Obama. And maybe this should have set off more warning bells with me. I think much of the media has a thumb on the scale for Obama. I think the thumb has been there the entire time. There are many honorable exceptions, I don't mean to tar everybody, but I think there's one standard for us, and one standard for Obama. He has run more negative ads than McCain has run ads. They run from the quite misleading to the blatantly untrue.
This is not something an advisor to a candidate for high office should be saying. It disgusts me that he would be so perverse in his responses to a national media outlet.
You can read the full story here.
Now, this by itself does not create much of an issue for the Mccain campaign. We all knew Mcnasty had some dirty dogs running his campaign. I think, however; the campaigns growing frustration is a hindrance to their efforts to catch up. With the Powell endorsement yesterday, and the news of our September fund-raising records, the opponents are simply running out of ways to win, or even make their campaign legitimate.
Donate here to change the country and the world.