"Honorable". HA! This is McDumbass trying to issue a passive-agressive bitch-slap to Obama. Transparent. Next.

It's up to the Obama campaign to highlight this now. Obama himself shouldn't, but surrogates should be populating the media highlighting this inherent contradiction.

We know the press won't do it, so will the Obama campaign?

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The Doublespeak Express!

So is there ever going to be a point when the MSM confronts McCain with the gigantic disconnect between his "stay in til we win a Mighty Victory over the Soviets, er, Iranian-backed Sunni militants, er whoever the hell it is we're in an existential struggle with this week" and the reality that Condi and Dubya are basically working out the details of the withdrawal plan Obama has been advocating for two years with the Iraqi government as we speak? Is that too much to ask?

I guess at some point, Obama will force them to do so by pointing out in a commercial, but it really would be nice if the Talking Hairdos would, just this once, point out why McCain is talking like a kook on their own.

Another thing... is honorable for McCain to try to reach the Hispanic community by the endorsement of Daddy Yankee? Honestly.

As an aside, I was just listening to the radio and the station I was listening to has an ABC "News" update every so often. These updates are always crappy sound bites. Today's crappy sound bite was interesting. It was Jake Tapper talking about Biden wasting no time on hitting McCain on being out of touch because of all of the homes he owns. Then he says, "The McCain camp responded by saying that John McCain was a POW." His voice dripping with snark.

So is there ever going to be a point when the MSM confronts McCain...

In a word, No.

The McCain camp has carefully created the POW-war hero mythology about this guy such that the Media is loathe to even appear to be questioning it. The rightwingers are brilliant at pushing a pumped up story whihc also emasculates the other side from responding to it honestly. They understand that a particularly American hubris and hyper-patriotism won't allow it.

And it's going to get their guy elected. Once the Media jumps on Obama's "friendship" with a '60s radical terrorist, it will be all but over. The right knows they have to make it clear to the voters (in a foggy sort of way!) that the choice will be between a POW-war hero-maverick and a black, elitist, terrorist-loving "muslim".

And the Meda will help convey that message.

An interesting note, I was in a waiting room in a doctors office when an older black gentleman in a wheelchair asked my what I thought of the election. I told him I thought Obama was going to win and asked him who he was supporting. He told me McCain and said that Obama was too young to be POTUS.

Of all of the dynamics of this election, I find the relationship between Obama and the boomers and older the most interesting. It must feel like for many of them that by voting for Obama they are relinquishing their own authority, dominance, and relevance. Tough stuff

McCain is treading a fine line and the media is going to let him because they agree with the opinion. The "lose the war to win the election" attack isn't about Obama's love of country, it's about Obama's love of self. Going after the patriotism implication in the attack won't work because most people can understand McCain's juvenile parsing.

The solution is clear: Obama must demonstrate that he doesn't in fact love himself. At the next press conference Obama must throw himself under the bus.

Now, McCain; it's already spelled out for McCain. He's allowed to love himself and wallow in his ambition.

McCain for President: Because it's on His To Do List

Too bad McCain's behavior has become less than honorable. Seriously, why do I feel like he is some kind of robot droid exchanged for the 'real' McCain?

And Brutus is an "honorable man" said Marc Antony as he stirred up the Roman masses to kill Brutus and Cassius.

YEah it might be really refreshing to hear the media for once put the American public first instead of the horse-race. I mean seriously how can McCain say that Obama is a patriot if he would gladly lose a war for politcal expediance? I thought we were looking for a new more honest style of leadership in America, no matter which party it comes from? John McCain is simply calling Obama a politician who is only interested in getting elected rather than being a leader, and is also stating that he would throw Americans under the "bus" for his own politcal purposes! It's treasonous! The only person trying to use political expediance is McCain, who is trying to have his cake and eat it too. It is totally disingenious for his campaign to blame their nasty rhetoric on the sad political environment whihc exists for Republicans currently. Isn't that political expedience?

McCains campaign is exactly what it is and has been ever since it stumbled out of the gates during the Republican primary, riding the image of John as a victim of the Vietnamese War, which the warmongers and chiefs during the 60's encouraged, and a symbol of America put right with his return to the US and his rise as a US Congressman. I am not trying to denigrate the guy but I believe that to many who lived during the 60's and 70's and served during the time have a palpable relationship with the cultural divide that existed then. My father rose from that generation and still holds a grudge against the people who protested that war and the returning troops. Since i was not there all I can say is that the accounts of troops being denigrated upon their return are vastly overstated when compared against the protest that arose to directly meet the warmongers head on and those institutions who did not treat all the returning veterans fairly or equally. Nonetheless, the emotions still seem palpable. Also McCain is counting on the votes from many Americans who harbor doubts about certain goverment institutions ability to identify and solve the issues of poverty. He latches on to the belief that private industry can solve the poverty issue (although it is interesting to see that many conservatives fail to rail against the money spent abroad fighting poverty) and that any many of our institutions gove free handouts. As an aside does anyone know a personally anyone who would fit this discription because from my perpsective many of the handouts I see are to private contratcors in the defense industry, to wall-street bankers who made bad policy in terms of the fiduciary responsability in signing on to loans, and to the wealthiest Americans who we have just found out to have been using companies like UBS (phil Gramm) to help them avoid paying taxes!

There is no question in my mind that Biden will SHRED McCain once the campaigning starts.

Huh? There are but 10 short weeks left. I doubt Biden will "shred" McCain's impenetrable wall of POW-ness. And that, frankly, is all he's got going for him.

I understood they did ask that question...or close to it. McCain's response was, "I'm not questioning his patriotism...I'm questioning his judgment..."

McCain is acting like there's a difference when clearly he IS questioning his patriotism and this is the fact that should be pointed out to... "McCain".

Claiming he would rather see our country defeated clearly attacks both patriotism and judgment but McCain says it only questions his judgment. This is what reporters should be calling him out on, that there is no difference in his assertions of unpatriotic bad judgments. Just saying...that is how McCain white washes his attacks on Obama's patriotism.