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"What is widely known is the skin-deep, out-of-date McCain image," writes N.Y. Times columnist Frank Rich in an 8.17 column. "As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors. He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president's response to Katrina; he fought the 'agents of intolerance' of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.
"With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct."
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 17, 2008 at 3:19 PM
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PerfectTommy says ...
First!!!
Oh...wasn't this one of the Star Wars sucks threads?
Posted by PerfectTommy at August 17, 2008 9:59 PM
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mizerock says ...
I finally saw my first McCain ad... yeah, I don't watch much TV. "The Original Maverick", "He'll reform Wall Street", etc. - he's even claiming to be sick of the current way the Government is run, and claims he's just the guy to fix it. Really? He's running as an outsider? So I guess he's going with the "the bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe" strategy. And it might just work, unless you can come up with an ad that gets across the points brought up above. Remind people that the McCain so many of us respected back in 2000 is not the guy running right now. Because those Undecideds that decide everything aren't going to have the same milk-spitting moment when they see the TV ads ...
Posted by mizerock at August 18, 2008 10:33 AM