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This is the first truly devastating and powerful Obama ad of the fall campaign. Play it again and again, guys. It will resonate especially with the independents who once liked McCain and now see the hollow cynic he has become:

This ad by Planned Parenthood helps explain how despicable McCain now is:

We all feel the same way. Either we were in total denial about this man’s character for years and years – and the national press corps never make errors of judgment like that, do we? – or the man now running for president is a pod-person controlled by Karl Rove from a remote. Take your … Continue reading The Dishonor Of John McCain

A reader writes:

In defense of Schmidt, he comes across very credibly when he talks about the campaign and about Palin.  If nothing else, he openly admits that the pick was pure cynicism from a political operative trying to win an election, not govern a country.

Frankly that doesn’t bother me—that’s his job.  It is McCain’s job to say to Schmidt, “No Steve.  I get the political argument you are making, but she just isn’t qualified to be president.”  The real character failure here was McCain’s, and really no one else’s.  It is not dishonorable for Schmidt to suggest her and look at the potential political upside in a heated election cycle.  He is a tactician, and it’s his job to consider all options that improve his guy’s chance to win.  McCain is the one with the responsibility to think about the election AND the aftermath AND the bigger picture of what is good for America…(Country First, anyone?)

Anne Applebaum and Joe Klein, like countless others, cannot support McCain because of his repulsive, vicious, negative, McCarthyite campaign and his unvetted spur-of-the-moment decision to pick Sarah Palin, an unhinged, know-nothing, delusional religious fanatic, as his veep. But Mickey argues that none of this matters – because McCain is really a good government liberal who just had to be mean to stand a chance. Does Mickey really believe that? Does he believe that McCain’s campaign and his pick of Palin tell us nothing about what kind of president he’d be? Does he believe that we have learned nothing about McCain’s character in this campaign or that character is irrelevant in a president?

Kerry Howley’s analysis is honest at least:

The only thing I know about Obama is that he is less scary than the other guy.

That’s what McCain calls Obama in his new ad. Palin used this line in the debate. It’s part of the negative tsunami they are now unleashing on Obama, for lack of any positive message: Here’s an LA Times article from last month about air-stikes in Afghanistan. We rely heavily on aerial bombing in Afghanistan, this has caused many civilian causalities, and popular support for an American presence in Afghanistan has fallen markedly as a consequence. Acknowledging these facts isn’t an act of disrespect towards our soldiers. From Fact-Check.org:

For me, a former McCain fan and admirer, someone who has written many columns praising him, someone I endorsed as a close-second to Ron Paul, this campaign has shredded whatever respect I once had for him. My bad, I guess, for not seeing before his narcissism, recklessness, cynicism, rank opportunism and pure mendacity. I second … Continue reading The End Of McCain’s Reputation

Hilzoy gets to the nub of it: Here’s a question: did Rick Davis tell John McCain about his arrangement with Freddie Mac before last week? If not, then I would expect Davis to be fired within days: you just don’t keep information like that from your boss and expect to keep your job. But if … Continue reading McCain’s Rick Davis Problem

Glad to see that Jake Tapper is not going to roll over in the face of constant lies from the McCain campaign: The most controversial item in the McCain ad is the assertion that Obama supports children "learning about sex before learning to read," and the accusation that Obama’s "one accomplishment" on education was "legislation … Continue reading John McCain, Shameless Liar