I agree totally with you.
See my post 74..
McCain is not ‘bucking under to the MSM” but appealing to the swing voters. those voters do NOT want the candidate to go with the “negative “ anger. Yet, the comments about Obama ‘got out”, were not said by Mccain, and Mcain comes off as a ‘decent candidate and reasonable”.
so, here’s what happened, the negatives about Obama get airplay, put doubts in the minds of swing voters...yet McCain comes off more presidential.
to those who are freaking out..what should he have done? Yelled,” right, Obama is a damnnnn terrorist!” and then done the Dean Scream?
Exactly. And then some nutcase (of which there are some) goes and does something really horrible and McCain and his supporters get blamed for it.
(Also, regardless, I do not wish for anything “really horrible” to either one of the nominees. America is better than that.)
I can’t believe people would be so quick to help Obambi get elected over something such as this. Or that they would make the volunteers watching the email put up with this kind of garbage reaction when there is so much more important work to do.
So McCain called for civil discourse? That’s a bad thing?
More than that, McCain is doing the right thing. It is right to control his message and it is right to attempt to keep *public* discourse civil, within reason, and factually accurate.
Do I wish he'd responded with a little different nuance? Sure.
Do I realize this was one answer among millions and millions of words McCain and Palin have spoken and will speak about Obambi and his character? Yes.
But that in no way justifies anyone who has a brain in to impinge McCain's character or courage, or to forget who we are fighting against here.
Hint: Obambi, not McCain.