McCain is what he is. A guy behind in the polls with a month to go with very obvious flaws and disadvantages in policies which can lose him the election, his Vietnam war experience not being one of them.

Seriously, why would you even consider this other than a blogger just told you what to think ? This amounts to am out-of-the-blue foot-shooting exercise for a candidate who is currently the likely winner.

McCain is going there because he’s losing and got nothing else to do. Either that’s Obama’s only chance too or it’s a dumb fkn move. You’ll notice that those refs to Swiftboat from 4 years ago are dated all the way up to today. That’ll be something you wear through his whole administration.

I say: fine. If the McCain campaign wants a war — if it wants to get filthy…

That ain’t filthy. They’re talking about Ayers and that was a legitimate enough topic for the front page of the NYT. Either way, it’s a pretty toothless issue since it’s all but been debunked, not the kind of terrorism anyone cares about and 40 years ago.

Seriously, every month of the year for the past 7 years you can hear someone claiming unchallenged that there have been no terrorist attacks on the US since 9/11. The reason those anthrax attacks didn’t count is the same reason this won’t, skin colour. This is no different than eco-terrorists. Sure they exist, but who really gives a toss. Wake us when they convert to Islam.

You’re running a black candidate from Chicago against the GOP FFS. This is by no means worthy of the term “filthy”. I can’t tell you the kind of vile shit I’ve expected to see about him and so far haven’t. In fact, it’s been pretty damn tame.

I read Neiwart over at his own blog and if you actually familiarise yourself with the kind of right-wing hate out there, not only will it put this stuff into perspective, but you’ll probably be surprised he hasn’t had to duck a bullet yet.

The other approach is to follow the Rovian playbook — go after his heroism.

Yeah, because that’s just reflected so well on Rove ever since. As Clinton said, he gave everything for his country except his life. Go there if you like.

* McCain was shot down after ignoring orders to avoid missiles.

This may be the stupidest thing ever posted on this blog. Congrats.

Except even George Bush didn’t left his first wife crippled while she waited for him to return from POW camp.

To be fair, she might have been a bitch when he left. Christ, she might have been the reason he refused release from that cage.

I had a friend who was going to break up with his long-term girlfriend one weekend, then she got hit by a car on the Friday. That happening wasn’t really a reflection on him.