Here’s the AP on McCain. No shit.
John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song.
Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city. Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways. […]
Squeeze in, and he’s the new capital tour guide for his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. […]
Draw out, and he’s never set foot in the city himself. […]
Squeeze in, and he’s got the Washington skill set needed to right the country’s Wall Street woes. […]
Draw out, and he distances himself from the administration of the Republican president who has endorsed him. […]
There are even times when McCain does both — squeeze in and draw out — in the same thought.
This is our fourth estate, people. Yours and mine. The first draft of history.
As I commented on Wonkette, this is not flexibility; it’s further evidence that McCain is a wind sock whose opinion matches the prevailing breeze in the room. That, or it’s the onset of dementia — but he’s been doing this for years. Years.
John McCain is like an old granddad rocking in a rocking chair on the porch. “When I was your age everything cost a nickel!” He rocks forward. “You could buy a house for one hundred dollars.” He rocks backward. “And you could get real cocaine in your Coca-Cola!” He rocks forward. “And it only cost ONE NICKEL!” He rocks backward.
We need not just a lower age limit for politicians, but an upper one as well.
22:05 on September 17th, 2008
Palin never should have let McCain on her ticket.
I’m afraid I am one of the increasing number of Democrats who fear that my party is about to lose what should have been the easiest victory in history.
Were sleepwalking our way to defeat once again.
We’re complacent. We naively assume everyone else will see reason like we do (forgetting this is that same nation that gave Bush a *second* term, let alone a first.)
And now Palin is snowballing us. And Obama is…uh…were is Obama actually?
We think we are gonna win because we should - and we should. But we won’t, unless we grow a pair, bring our A-game, and commit to take. this. shit. home.
8:47 on September 19th, 2008
I know; the bounce, however, seems to be losing some energy. As long as Palin and McCain keep talking, they’re going to doom themselves.
McCain is rapidly emerging as the inconstant, possibly corrupt person he always was. That’s not being a “maverick”; it’s having no opinions of your own.