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2008 election, eskew, john lewis, mccain, obama, palin, racism

McCain: Lying Six Ways From Sunday
On Sunday, I posted this regarding McPalin's dive for the racial gutter, and McCain's putative regret expressed on Friday:

Obama has shown he can take a crowd and turn them joyous, hopeful cheering section. McCain and Palin have shown they can take a crowd and turn it into a raging, screaming lynch mob. Whom are they trying to attract? The answer is, no one. They knew that wouldn't attract independent voters. So what, exactly, were they trying to accomplish? McCain clearly is willing to wade through mud to get to the White House; is he willing to wade through blood, too? His Friday renunciation suggests that maybe not, maybe there are some things he won't do to win. Let's see how he behaves through the weekend and next week before making that call.

That was written Sunday, October 12.

Monday, October 13, McCain continued to run the vitriolic and volcanic "Obama - terrorists - liar" ad in the swing-state radio market I live in, northern Virginia.

And today, Tuesday, October 14, yet another supporter shouted out "Kill him!" at a Palin rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Minute-by-minute report.

So we see just how (in)sincere McCain's putative retreat from racial rage last Friday was. Also, on Monday, McCain turned against Congressman John Lewis, whom he dared to call a mentor earlier in the campaign, calling Lewis "outrageous" for his on-target identification of the race-baiting McPalin tactics with the very same behavior from the infamous George Wallace.

Please, follow that last link to read the language which Wallace used and I cannot. This is exactly what McCain is doing; exactly what he did when he hired the infamous Tucker Eskew, who attacked McCain's own dark-skinned daughter in 2000. Lewis is right, and right to speak up about it. I expect no less from Lewis, and as for McCain's shameful attack on him, well, I expect no better. I'm making the call: nope, there's nothing McCain won't do.

Economic News

Remember how McCain was so enthused about Carly Fiorina, even considering her as a potential running mate? The same Carly Fiorina who had a $42+ million golden parachute when she got booted from Hewlett-Packard after knocking 20,000 employees out of the work force? McCain was okay with that. He didn't become disenchanted until September, when Fiorina told the press that neither Plain nor McCain was competent to run a major corporation.

Here's his latest questionable economic crush on the woman who was eBay's CEO until May:

Meanwhile, on Tuesday Meg Whitman got John McCain's seal of approval as a potential Treasury Secretary, just one day after eBay announced it was slashing 10% of its workforce.

Mr. McCain. We know you like women under all kinds of circumstances (unless they're pregnant and don't want to be, in which case you think they should be imprisoned.) But in these circumstances, what we'd like to see is you choosing competent women. Please, grow up, or wise up, or whatever it takes to get you out of the rut you're apparently wallowing in. Politics ain't beanbag, and it's not a beauty contest, either.