[katya8]

I read that piece early this morning -——— it’s not an editorial, but a childish, petulant series of attacks on Obama, and as such, it has no editorial value at all, whch means the NYT was right and McCain should stop whining. Really.

[CdMGuy]

It’s not an editorial. It is an op-ed piece in which the op-ed writer, in this case, McCain, is writng to express his/her own opinions. Quite simply, the NY Times did not like what McCain wrote. I read his article and have no problem with it appearing as an op-ed piece. The same goes for the op-ed article that Obama wrote or may write in the future. You don’t have to agree with it.

[Raquel]

Even if you are right, I did not know that “childish, petulant series of attacks on Obama” constitutes a non printable non opinion of McCain.

Simply put, the Times does not agree with McCain's opinion, and that is why they refused to print it.

And if you changed one word in the above quote, from Obama to Bush, the Times could not, in all fairness, print any op-ed pieces at all.