John McCain: A Legend in His Own Mind

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from AlterNet's PEEK:



John McCain: A Legend in His Own Mind

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 5:25 AM on December 31, 2007.

A suddenly super confident McCain compares himself to Will Smith.




The only living boy in New Hampshire has got nothing to do today but smile. And talk crap:

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain joked Friday that given his campaign's ups and downs, he's shown the stamina of the last man on Earth.

"I've been declared dead in this campaign on five or six occasions. I won't refer to a recent movie I saw, but I think I am legend," he told reporters, referring to the film in which Will Smith stars as the last man on Earth.

Smoove, McCain. Once again, you have illustrated that you are, if nothing else, the master of subtlety. "I won't refer to my favorite urban sitcom of the 1990s, but I am the Fresh Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue!"

"Somehow we've had a Lazarus-like experience," McCain told supporters at his campaign headquarters. "I think it's because I've been telling the truth. I've been telling people the truth whether I thought that's what they wanted or not."

Actually, the old man was closer with his Legend reference--because the only thing of any conceivable value he's done during the campaign is not be a cross-dressing philanderer, a lying dog-torturer in magic underpants, a virulently misogynist theocrat, or a dimestore Reagan disappointment. He's not the last man standing; just the least objectionable one.

Which technically makes him more Bachelorette contestant than Legendary, but I'll leave him to his fever-dreams.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Telling the truth, is he? Like suddenly claiming he's a Southern Baptist, when

everyone knows he's Episcopalian? Or agitating for comprehensive immigration reform in July, but now repudiating THE BILL HE HELPED CRAFT? Yep, some solid truthiness out of McCrazy.

[patrice]

2. What IS it with Republicans and movies??? They don't seem to get

what Fiction is.

[zabet]

3. McCain's time has passed...

he should have never drank
the bushco koolaid. Still,
I have an immense respect for
McCain. If for nothing else,
for his brave service.

[L. Coyote]

4. McCain's weakness, covering up Abramoff, is being aggressively countered

in the media with talking points saying McCain was part of the effort to uncover the corruption. It is a 180 degree opposite of, and an obvious effort to counter the devastating reality of, McCain saving 2004 for Bush by helping keep a lid on the scandal until after the election. I've seen this talking point now in several letters to editors. Someone is writing these for McCain, then getting people to send them in as their own, I suspect, and it is very revealing of their understanding of his vulnerability re Abramoff.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Typical toe tapping diaper wearing Republican shithead n/t