> The question isn't if we can trust him to dispatch a cooperhead from the
> porch, the question is if he will ever show up while the treat exist?
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/opinion/17rich.html?hp
>
> McCain never called for Donald Rumsfeld to be fired and didn't start
> criticizing the war plan until late August 2003, nearly four months after
> "Mission Accomplished." By then the growing insurgency was undeniable. On
> the day Hurricane Katrina hit, McCain laughed it up with the oblivious
> president at a birthday photo-op in Arizona. McCain didn't get to New
> Orleans for another six months and didn't sharply express public criticism
> of the Bush response to the calamity until this April, when he traveled to
> the Gulf Coast in desperate search of election-year pageantry surrounding
> him with black extras.
>
> McCain long ago embraced the right's agents of intolerance, even spending
> months courting the Rev. John Hagee, whose fringe views about Roman
> Catholics and the Holocaust were known to anyone who can use the Internet.
> (Once the McCain campaign discovered YouTube, it ditched Hagee.) On Monday
> McCain is scheduled to appear at an Atlanta fund-raiser being promoted by
> Ralph Reed, who is not only the former aide de camp to one of the agents
> of intolerance McCain once vilified (Pat Robertson) but is also the former
> Abramoff acolyte showcased in McCain's own Senate investigation of Indian
> casino lobbying.
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