I really don’t want to turn this into a political blog (again); no one needs another political blog. But I read something this morning that angered me more than usual. It’s here. Excerpt:
WALLACE: But Senator back, if I may, back in 2000 when you were the target of robo calls, you called these hate calls and you said–
MCCAIN: They were.
WALLACE: And you said the following: “I promise you I have never and will never have anything to do with that kind of political tactic.” Now you’ve hired the same guy who did the robocalls against you to, reportedly, to do the robocalls against Obama and the Republican Senator Susan Collins, the co-chair of your campaign in Maine, has asked you to stop the robocalls. Will you do that?
MCCAIN: Of course not. These are legitimate and truthful and they are far different than the phone calls that were made about my family and about certain aspects that — things that this is — this is dramatically different and either you haven’t — didn’t see those things in 2000.
I’ve been saying all along that the only thing I wanted in a President after these last eight years was someone I could respect. Someone thoughtful. Someone not a slave to his or her own hubris. Only a couple more weeks in this election, and Obama has managed to — mostly — stay above the fray. But McCain…. First he comes right out and says that his negative attacks on Obama are a result of Obama’s refusal to join him in “town hall” meetings (a move that McCain should actually be thanking Obama for, given the former’s speaking…erm…”prowess”). And now, the matter referenced here. Even his fellow Republicans are speaking out against McCain’s baseless attacks on irrelevant issues. I found Colin Powell’s repudiation of McCain’s recent campaign tactics particularly scathing. Of course, Powell’s only voting for Obama because they’re both black, so take this video with a grain of salt.