The Chernobyl of Presidential Campaigns....

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Thursday July 24, 2008 · 5:51 AM PDT

2008/07/24 · 05:51

There was another "Shock and Awe" attack in Iraq this week. But this time it was not the military might of the United States raining down upon the Iraqis but rather it was the political might of the Iraqis raining down upon Bush & Co. and, by extension, John McCain. And it was the flexing of this new-found power that helped Barack Obama win his own battle with Senator McCain.

Obama's own version of "shock and awe" succeeded in knocking the McCain campaign back on its heels. Not unlike Saddam Hussein's fatal error in bluffing the world with non-existent weapons of mass destruction, McCain's campaign made what seems to be their fatal error in challenging Obama to prove he could be a world leader and a commander-in-chief. And now in the midst of a political meltdown equivalent in magnitude to the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the McCain campaign has become a cornered wounded animal. And there is nothing more dangerous.

Just like that frightened animal, they have begun to strike out blindly at their attackers. How else can one explain the vicious lies and slanders being flung about both by McCain himself and by his surrogates. How else to explain a United States senator, a candidate for the highest office in the land, brazenly and blatantly accuse a fellow United States senator of being "willing to lose a war rather than lose a campaign"? In essence, he accused his opponent of treason. You and I both know that McCain doesn't believe that. But how can a man who has heralded himself as a straight-talker and an honest man sink to such depths of ignominy? This statement alone, above and beyond any other thing that McCain has said or done during the course of his campaign, disqualifies him to be president of the United States.

And as if that were not bad enough, after Senator Obama's visit to the Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem, where he uttered the words which signify, not only the Jewish people's, but the world's resolve against mass extermination, "Never again", the McCain campaign had the audacity to challenge Obama's sincerity. Shocking.

And just like the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the McCain meltdown will result in the Republican party becoming a vast wasteland for decades to come.

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