Full Metal McCain (DESPICABLE!!)

Rolling Stone ^ | June 26, 2008 Edition | Matt Taibbi

[2ndDivisionVet]

Haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger.

Evening, June 3rd, in a muggy, dragonfly-beswarmed place called the Pontchartrain Center, just outside New Orleans. Half a continent away, amid yet another legacy-smashing fusillade of unsolicited invective from Bill Clinton, the excruciating Obama-Hillary mess is finally wrapping up, in a pair of anticlimactic primaries somewhere over the darkened plains of Montana and South Dakota. But here in the Big Easy, John McCain has chosen this moment to mount his first general-election attack against the Great Satanic Liberal Enemy — who, as luck would have it, turns out to be a Negro intellectual from Harvard who's never served in the military. And this is supposed to be a bad year for Republicans?

You'd never know it from listening to McCain, whose kickoff speech is the same election-year diatribe that Republicans have been giving for decades, one long broadside against those goddamned overgrown Sixties weenie liberals who hate the flag, love the bomb-tossing enemies of America and are bent on the twin goals of ending the system of free enterprise and placing every aspect of our lives under government control. McCain pegs Obama as a man who wants to take America "backward," to the failed ideas of the Sixties. "I'm surprised that a young man has bought into so many failed ideas!" he says, to furious applause. Then, spitting out a forced, ugly laugh that he must have practiced many (but not enough) times in the bathroom mirror of the Straight Talk Express, he adds, "That's not change we can believe in!"

[PhatHead]

BTTT...

Just thought the MSM (non) reaction to the cartoon in this article was an interesting contrast to the reaction to the New Yorker Obama cartoon...

Not surprising, mind you.

[TADSLOS]

I don’t know what Rolling Stone is whining about. McCain just told Nebraska voters that Chuck Hagel is a dear frined and has a place in his administration. You would think any liberal rag would embrace that idea. McCain wouldn’t even have to reach across the aisle to stroke Hagel.