Meat Ax McCain Goes Over-the-Top Negative

[seafan]

McCain Goes Over-the-Top Negative

By Brent Budowsky
July 28, 2008

The man who used to be John McCain is reacting to the pressures of a campaign by becoming Meat Ax McCain with low-road attacks that raise core questions of presidential temperament.
On Monday, as Barack Obama hosted a meeting with financial leaders from across America, the anger-ridden, increasingly desperate McCain campaign accused Obama of creating a future depression.
The performance of the man who used to be John McCain -- and his campaign which is run by foreign agents and Bush-Rove disciples -- now raises grave questions about whether McCain has the temperament and stability in a crisis to be President.

In recent days McCain has accused Obama of supporting genocide, wanting to lose the Iraq war, and now possibly creating a world depression.
There is an anger to all this, an emotional and intellectual distemper, and an intolerance of alternative opinions, traits that have flared up in McCain's behavior before and have deeply troubled his Senate Republican colleagues for many years.
There is an irrational anger to this, a stability meltdown under the pressures of a campaign that leads McCain to attacks that I have called short-pants McCarthyism. Supports genocide? Wants to lose the Iraq war? Will cause a world depression?
These are the weird, strange and ridiculous charges of an angry candidate lashing out without regard for truth, dignity, common sense or the normal civilities even in our lower-standard national politics.

Equally dangerously, in recent days McCain has made factual gaffes and misstatements that are bizarre.

He confuses Sunnis with Shiites, and has done this a number of times. He places Iraq on the border of Pakistan and, on one occasion, made Vladimir Putin a German. He quotes a conversation between Sunnis and Americans in Iraq that took places months before the “surge” and credits the “surge” for the conversation.

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One has to hand it to Obama. McCain taunted Obama to travel abroad, and Obama hit the ball out of the park while McCain was left to make cheap-shot insults that are laughable and unworthy of a President.
Obama returns to a perfectly scheduled meeting with financial leaders, and the McCain campaign is reduced to saying Obama would start a depression, already having said he favors genocide and wants America to lose a war.

The man who used to be John McCain is now Meat Ax McCain.
It is time to ask whether any candidate who unravels in this manner, under the pressure of a campaign, should have his finger on the nuclear button.

America's shame.

[silverweb]

1. K&R

:kick:

[speedoo]

2. Recin' the hell out of this.

You're going down McWhine. Way down.

[Kdillard]

3. rec and kick.

[cliffordu]

4. Kicked and recommended Fo' sho'.

McCain ought to be leaving the race any day now.

[scarface2004]

5. mcswine is a frickin p o s!!!

c mon mcswine...keep slinging shit...you think anybody with two brain cells to rub together is gonna buy into your hysteria?!?!

[Phredicles]

6. Kick-ass - needs to be seen widely;

"Maverick" my fanny.

[AtomicKitten]

7. I hope they rot in hell for the criminal negligence on Katrina.

[justgamma]

8. He forgot to mention the price of oil

is all Obama's fault. That is the ad they have playing over and over in Iowa.

[JeffR]

9. K & R!

:kick:

[Captain Angry]

10. My dad has never been to New Orleans.

But the treatment of our fellow citizens after hurricane Katrina may have made him vote Democrat this year.

That picture needs to make it into a 527's ad. Senator Obama has shown that he won't go negative.

This shouldn't be considered going negative as it is the honest truth about the way that McCain and Bush spent the day when people were drowning.