Friday, October 17, 2008

Becomes what he forswore

The Republicans lie even when they're lying. No one should any longer expect them to be fair to their opponents, but if their first tales are not juicy enough, they pump them up without limitation by silly things like facts.

John McCain had this done to him by the Bushists in 2000 in South Carolina. Now, he is trying vainly to do the same to Obama.

He has flushed his conscience down the toilet in the name of ambition. He has become a Bushist in every way.

Of course, compared to acquiescing to continued torture by the CIA, he had already much more visibly lost his bearings. It would be sad, a tragic flaw, except that it's so infuriating.

Despite all this, McCain will not be Thane of Cawdor. He will have to live with the damned spot for the rest of his days. He could have been a man and still lost. He chose to dishonor himself.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHY ISN'T ANYONE ADDRESSING THESE RACIST VIEWS AND COMMENTS AT ANY OF THESE McCAIN PALIN RALLY'S?
IS AMERICA AFRIAD TO SHOW WHAT WHITE PEOPLE REALLY THINK ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE?
CHECK OUT YOUTUBE.COM

CONFUSED

lovable liberal said...

It's a small room, anonymous. No need to shout.

Also, I've posted plenty of times on race and racism in this campaign. It would further discussion to leave this comment on one of them, instead of off-topic here.

Anonymous said...

With a couple of rare exceptions, the Republicans are scum of the lowest order. The only thing that amazes me is that there are middle class Americans out there still stupid enough to actually vote for these would-be Nazis.

lovable liberal said...

Anon 11:24, I'm not so sure that many Americans believe in the messy business of democracy any more. Oh, sure, we want to vote every four years, but many of us want a strongman of the type we used to sneer at as typical of Latin America.

And I'm sure that a majority of Americans only support three parts of the Bill of Rights:
- guns
- god
- the right say anything (unless you're a Democrat, in which case there are a vast number of taboos, instantly increased as needed)

But ... Nazis? Banal, to be sure. Power-driven, yep. Willing to provoke threats, sadly, yes. But I don't see them driven by the sort of mass murder that the Nazis used as self-justification. I see the Republicans as driven by greed, and I don't think that leads to camps and ovens.

Faint praise, to be sure, but it's a mistake to let your own (justified) anger carry you away to such malign hyperbole. It's like the wingnuts calling us communists or socialists, when they don't actually have a clue what those words mean. Don't go down their path!