The conventional wisdom is that the voters need to get to know Barack better. Maybe so. But what about the other guy? How much do voters really know about John McCain? Is the real McCain just that affable, straight-talking, moderately conservative war hero?
McCain crossed the line this week when he said that Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.” It was a lousy comment, tantamount to calling Barack a traitor, and McCain should apologize for it.
And now his Rovian-style campaign has put up a terribly disingenuous ad criticizing Barack for not visiting our wounded troops in Germany, showing just how desperate McCain really is.
McCain is one of those guys who never has to pay much of a price for his missteps and foul-ups and bad behavior. Just imagine the firestorm of outrage and criticism that would have descended on Obama if he had made the kind of factual mistakes that McCain has repeatedly made in this campaign.(Or if Barack had had the temerity to even remotely suggest that John McCain would consider being disloyal to his country for political reasons?)
We have a monumental double standard here.
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