It's really sad, isn't it, when a politician who has built a 20 year reputation on being a "straight talker" becomes a smarmy politician, who treats his younger opponent with condescension and disdain because he's such a terrible candidate himself it's the only way he can win?
First McCain said he wanted to take Obama to Iraq to "educate him."
Then, after accusing Obama of preferring to lose a war rather than lose an election, he was asked by the press if he was accusing Obama of being unpatriotic. His answer? A condescending "No, I'm sure Obama is patriotic, he just doesn't understand."
Then he put up an ad comparing and juxtaposing Obama with two young white blond celebrities, mocking his popularity. Today the ad used the image of Charlton Heston playing Moses and mocked Obama's rhetoric about this being "our moment."
Yesterday he accused Obama of playing the race card and in another condescending display said it was "so disappointing" and another time said it was "so sad." Kind of like how your parents might have talked to you when you were too old to spank.
Today, he defended his demeaning ads of Obama by saying "we're just having a little fun."
I don't know. The expression "we're just having a little fun" brought instant images to me of hooded men in the South dragging a black man off to be flogged and perhaps lynched and mockingly saying "we're just havin' ourselves a little fun." I'm not saying that's what McCain had in his mind. But then again, I'm not saying it's not.
These people are seriously deranged.
It is so typical of the Republican Party, the mean party, the ugly party, the party bankrupt of ideas, the party that appeals to the South, the capital of slavery, the last stronghold of segregation and Jim Crow, to use this kind of dog whistle politics. It is so typical of this party to mock and bait their opponents because that's all they have. They can't win on the merits, they have lousy candidates, but if they can just convince you their opponent is too elite, too arrogant, too educated, too young, too "liberal," too unpatriotic, too inexperienced, and yes - too black - maybe they can win.
And every single damn f***in time they do this, the country loses.
