Letters to the Editor
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That's the old McCain!
Maybe he's figured out that he'll have a shot at winning the election if he repudiates Bush.
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McCain comments
Weird. McCain's words are hardly ever contradicted by himself or someone else.
http://thefirstannualkrogblog.blogspot.com/
That post of mine is just a fluke example of McCain's less than straight talk.
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Only a fool or a fraud ?
McCain's statement failed to include the more precise term if he had been referring to little ol' W.
Bush's sentimentalizings are those of a MORON.
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If Dubya ever read classic novels...
...no doubt one of his faves would have been "Camille". Nothing like good, old-fashioned CONSUMPTION to tickle his romantic bones, just as does a bracing dose of manly 21st century warfare (fought by someone ELSE, of course!).
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Sorry, not far enough
I don't trust any politician who does not come out and say directly that Bush is a fool, a fraud, and far worse. Those who don't express this are ignoring perhaps the most important issue facing the country and the world, for political purposes.
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Unfortunately,
Unfortunately, when McCain is confronted with this tidbit, he will back off and hem and haw and wax poetic about Bush all over again. I have a feeling that there are simply times when McCain just can't stop himself in time from speaking honestly. I can see why the Republican Party is so leery of him. You never know when truth will break out and you can't have that!
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Only a fool would ______
McCain should learn to avoid this construct because almost any reasonably foolish action will already have been done by GWB or his minions or advocated by his supporters (including McC), forcing embarrassing demurrals and retractions later.
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Alecsmom
Well, as we all know, a "gaffe" in Washington means inadvertently telling the truth. This was one doozy of a gaffe.
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Okay, so here's the DNC attack plan
Start by rounding up every bit of footage you can documenting McCain's support for Bush in '04.
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So which is it?
McCain Version 2000 would have no problem saying W was/is a fool.
Version 2004 took a slightly different, more expeditious tack.
So are we to believe Version 2008? Methinks not.
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"A fool or a fraud?"
How about, "Yes"
and "Yes".
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Bifecta
Bush wins on both counts: fool and fraud.
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@ AlecsMom
Who's going to confront McCain? Tim Russert?
Much like so many other revealing statements by McCain, this will be overshadowed by missing white women, angry black men, and whomever the Feds are bailing out/paying off next...
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He's pointing a finger at himself, really
We'll stay in Iraq a hundred years if we have to -- that's a sweeping romantic gesture towards the Iraq War if I ever saw one.
He's a post-traumatic combat veteran who was locked in a cage for years. His voter demographic romanticizes that sad fact relentlessly.
And that staying in Iraq one hundred years business -- that's a good example of post-traumatic psychology.
He's got PTSD tunnel vision so bad that he can't even recognize how long a hundred years really is.
He's not very self-aware. I do not trust him as Commander-in-Chief.
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I'm amazed
that McCain was able to pull his nose out of Bush's ass long enough to say something that damning about the man whose embrace was worth kicking aside what miniscule shred of integrity and pride McCain had left.
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Bush's Envy
Poor George. Life has been so tough for him. First he was prevented from going to Viet Nam by his commitments to the National Guard and now he is slightly too old to go to Iraq. How much disappointment can one man bear?
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hadashito is right
Bush is simply a moron.
It's McCheney, I mean McSame, I mean McAncient, I mean St. Maverick the Straight Talker who's the fool and the fraud.
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A glimmer, just a glimmer, of what should have been said
The first thing I thought of after reading what John McCain said was what Woodrow Wilson said the night he asked Congress to declare war on Imperial Germany: leaving the Capitol, he said "How strange that they cheer for the deaths of our young men."
Where is the candidate who has that kind of realism?
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Good judge of character --- and intelligence
I think John McCain is right. If I recall, Eisenhower hated war. Colin Powell hates war. Anyone who has been in war hates war. It takes a chicken hawk to love the vicarious manhood that war conveys on the cowardly.
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@ midnight04
That argument would probably carry a little more weight had expressed any of that five and half years ago, and if he hadn't voted for the AUMF. As it is, McCain just looks like an opportunist and hypocrite.