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If Obama REALLY wanted to use age as an issue, I'd suggest that everytime he mentiones McCain's heroism as a prisoner of war that he adds the phrase "...during the Vietnam War, FORTY YEARS AGO...." It's a subtler reminder that this was a long, long, long time ago.
Since George McGovern ran for president the Republicans have owned the word "flip-flop," but has anyone flipped as frequently as John McCain? Beginning with his kissing up to Jerry Falwell-Pat Robertson-Bob Jones University, right up to his reversal on Bush's tax cuts, he's been a master flipflopper. Yet, such is the media's love affair with McCain that HIS flips are called "his evolved positions" or "change of direction." Why are the Dems afraid to use this word against McCain? I really don't get it.
As you said, the Repubs can't win on issues, they always go for the body blows. And their efforts to intimidate the media works. Can you imagine how the Keating Five, Cindy McCain's theft of drugs and McCain's age would play if they were Democrats? Already, the Repubs have taken us back to Obama at age 8 and his casual acquaintance with a onetime SDS member. Dems are fair game; Repubs are not. I wish just once when the Dems praise McCain's imprisonment (enough already!!)they would add "40 years ago in Vietnam." What has he done since then, one might ask?
