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DNC gigs McCain on Iraq statements
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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
March 24, 2008 12:27 PM
If you can't wait for the fall presidential debates, the Democratic National Committee is offering its own take -- a cartoonish face-off between John McCain the senator and John McCain the presidential candidate.
The DNC launched a McCain vs. McCain debate website today, starting with a series of apparently contradictory statements on the Iraq war. After each of four examples, an image of President Bush appears in the middle of the two McCains, giving a thumbs up.
"No matter which McCain you listen to, he only offers a third Bush term on Iraq," the video concludes.
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When are you guys in the MSM going to start really covering McCain, and revoke his hall pass? You guys are complicit in this administration's marriage to the radical right wrong-about-everything ideology that McCain has pimped himself out to. You really need to start covering him for the fraud that he his.
Like Kevin Drum says:
Foreign policy cred lets him get away with wild howlers on foreign policy. Fiscal integrity cred lets him get away with outlandishly irresponsible economic plans. Anti-lobbyist cred lets him get away with pandering to lobbyists. Campaign finance reform cred lets him get away with gaming the campaign finance system. Straight talking cred lets him get away with brutally slandering Mitt Romney in the closing days of the Republican primary. Maverick uprightness cred allows him to get away with begging for endorsements from extremist religious leaders like John Hagee. "Man of conviction" cred allows him to get away with transparent flip-flopping so egregious it would make any other politician a laughingstock. Anti-torture cred allows him to get away with supporting torture as long as only the CIA does it.
Remind me again: where does all this cred come from? And what window do Democrats go to to get the same treatment the press gives McCain?