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Defeating McCain: Ending Not Only Neocon Policies, but Also Tactics

By John Lewis-Dickerson, Atlanta - Oct 31st, 2008 at 2:48 pm EDT

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Defeating McCain: Ending Not Only Neocon Policies, but Also Tactics

by Glenn Greenwald

Numerous commentators have condemned the McCain campaign's despicable -- and patently false -- attack on Professor Rashid Khalidi as an "anti-Semite," deployed in order, yet again, to insinuate that Barack Obama is an American-hating, Muslim/Arab radical. Even Fred Hiatt's Washington Post Editorial Page this morning called McCain's comments about Rashidi "a vile smear," "simply ludicrous," and "itself condemnable," and favorably cited Rashidi's response when asked by The Post if he wanted to address the controversy: "I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over."

It's true, as those commentators point out, that this episode is just the latest in the McCain campaign's increasingly desperate (and laughably inept) attempt to win by sinking lower and lower into McCarthyite muck. But it goes far beyond just the McCain campaign. The neoconservative Right has been doing exactly this for a long time..........

ENTIRE ARTICLE- http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/31/neocons/

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