But Obama’s Not Like Jesus
Wow. McCain’s lead media consultant, Mark McKinnon, is resigning from that post… because he likes Obama so much, he doesn’t want to make negative ads against the man. That is not an exaggeration; in the Summer of 2007,
McKinnon told Cox Newspapers that if Obama was the Democratic nominee, he would not play an active role in McCain’s effort to defeat the Illinois senator.“I just don’t want to work against an Obama candidacy,” McKinnon told Cox Washington bureau chief Ken Herman; electing Obama, he added, “would send a great message to the country and the world.”
I repeat: Wow. That says something. Sure, McKinnon is a former Democrat, but he has worked for Republican candidates since 2000, helping elect Bush twice and working for McCain up until now. And yes, he says he’ll still vote for McCain, but considering what he’s doing, you gotta figure that he might be just saying that.
Not that everyone in the GOP feels that way. Sure, Republican Chuck Hagel likes Obama, but the Georgia GOP chair thinks that McCain is like Jesus on the cross. And no, I am not making that up.
Meanwhile, the media in the U.S. seems fixated on Bush’s cell-phones-to-Cuba gimmick, while apparently ignoring the fact that Israel, where Bush just gave his “talking to radicals is appeasement” speech, Israel has announced official talks with Syria (“it’s better to talk than to shoot”)–and the Bush State Department has no objections. Apparently no one outside a few liberal blogs has noticed the contradiction.
I’m catching up on reading, hence late remarks…
I have to wonder something. The Bush campaign pretty plainly meant for his “don’t appease terrorists” remarks to be against the Democrats and Obama, right? Well, I thought so when that first happened, but now I have to wonder if that’s entirely true.
With the news of Israel dealing with Syria coming out, I have to wonder if it wasn’t Bush slagging on the Israeli leadership just a bit. By having the McSame campaign hit the same talking point (there’s a shock) they made it seem like an anti-Democrat/Obama thing, but the reality is now I wonder about it.
I suspect that it wasn’t strictly aimed at the Dems; Bush was trying (in a typically Bush, ham-handed, clumsy, self-defeating way) to send a message to the Israeli leadership. The Administration apparently was actively telling the Israelis that talking with Syria was a bad idea.
Of course, the Israelis are going to act in their long-term self-interest and ignored Bush, which is exactly what they should do. In fact, I have to think that the news that the Bush Administration was against the talks only enhances the Israeli’s stature with the Syrians in the long run.