John McCain: Who Will Save Your Soul?
-
Artist:
-
Album:
-
Track:
Who will save your soul after all the lies that you told,
Who will save your soul if you won't save your own?
It's been hard enough to accept John McCain's hypocritical claim that negative ads don't work and that "people are not going to be fooled by negative campaigns," even as he was running negative ads. Worse are the GOP campaign events whose fear-mongering speeches and violent crowd reactions are whipped up by hyperbolic and thinly veiled racist rhetoric. McCain's rebuttals have been weak, including redressing a claim that Obama is an Arab by positing that he's a good family man, as if that's the opposite of "Arab." Most vexing is McCain's two-faced endorsement of such tactics when surrounded by friendlies, but his reticence to levy such slander when meeting his opponent face to face.
McCain has apparently sold his soul to win the presidency, showing himself an unscrupulous man of low ethics. He's denigrated whatever heroism that was demonstrated as a POW, running a spineless campaign that does his dirty work at a distance, rather than manning up for hand-to-hand combat. Rolling Stone's highly biased profile of McCain suggests this is nothing new, but even as you read the piece with a mountain of salt, the patterns depicted fit McCain's current behavior with an alarming snugness.
The mob responses of "bomb Obama," "commie faggot," "one man terror cell" are even catching the notice of conservatives like David Gergen, William Milliken, and Ray LaHood. William F. Buckley Jr.'s son has jumped off the McCain bandwagon and will be voting for Obama, as will Frank Schaeffer.
How much lower can McCain go?
How many more erratic actions and decisions?
How many more lies?
How many more operatives deployed to stir up the hate he clearly endorses but with which he won't dirty his own hands?
Comments (1)
When you ride the Tiger, you run the risk of becoming it's next meal. The Maverick Thing was fine for the "distant trumpeter" who wasn't the front runner. But The Standard Bearer has to court disparate voting blocs, and runs the risk of looking/acting like a "sidewalk stewardess" as one tries to formulate a winning platform/message. Usually this is hashed out/fine tuned immediately after the convention, barring extraordinary events. Extraordinary events have turned the campaign's fair grounds into a swamp, and it's "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" for John McCain. Hubert H. Humphrey must be watching this from Political Purgatory and wondering what to say to this latest victim of "tar baby" syndrome. These are such "interesting times" we live in. (I see that Barack Obama hasn't fallen into the "George McGovern pit"...yet.)