Comments on: McCain Can’t Plead Ignorance in the Age of Google — Nobody Can

By: REB SHLOMO

REB SHLOMO — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:12:09 +0000

I hold no torch for Obama but I am tired of n****r haters conjuring up reasons not to vote for Obama, most of it is drivel & fantasy. Be realistic, listen to what Obama has to say, consider the polls, & decide how you will act when Obama is elected. REB SHLOMO

By: seeker

seeker — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:15:49 +0000

Rawlings:

Coverups as you say.

Why don’t you investigate your own Democratic Party and see 1000 of coverups.

Explain why all communists are rallying around Obama and get back to us and give us explanation.

If you can give us explanation then maybe we shall vote for Obama after all.

By: Rawlings

Rawlings — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:35:39 +0000

I am not surprised at all these cover-ups. John McCain cant pretend he never knew. Anyway, whatever he does or donot do never gets my attention because I have already made my choice to vote for Obama. We just need a fresh face.

By: leo dewdawg

leo dewdawg — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:17:33 +0000

Thought provoking article as usual, Brad. However, I can’t agree with your conclusions that there is an implicit guilt by association assumed by a candidate whenever someone associated with his campaign is discovered to have said or done something stupid, and that, in this Google age, it is inexcusable for him not to have known his associate had done so. By that lofty measure, any future candidate might just as well put a gun to his head the moment he decides to run for office. Everyone is guilty of misjudgment or wrongheadedness from time to time. Even some of the most extreme crimes have statutes of limitation placed on them. Stupid, insensitive comments are forms of Constitutionally protected speech, not crimes and misdemeanors. They are punishable by the loss of an election as it was in Williams’ case 18 years ago. Yielding to “bushwhack politics” makes for cowards in office. In my opinion, McCain showed his cowardice by withdrawing from this event over this issue. Give me an honest, courageous, even “politically incorrect” candidate anytime.

By the way, I really like the photo you used in your header: Just the observational angle most of us will ever have.

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By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:58:47 +0000

Bill, if you read a bit about Lyndon Johnson, John Nance Garner, and Joe Kennedy — or go back to the Tammany Hall days, or the Prendergast machine — I think you’ll find that the character of our politicians hasn’t changed. Ben Franklin was known to enjoy an off-color joke and a little canoodling. Sara’s point about “priggish pettiness” is a good one, but in this election, I’m not sure I see McCain has a lot of choice; if he weren’t doing it, the legacy media would do it for him.

By: Bill Perron

Bill Perron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:20:50 +0000

Rome fell for many reasons, but the main was that the character of the leadership ebbed downward, observe how similar the once great character of the American leadership settles toward the sewar.

By: RE

RE — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:38:07 +0000

It just occurred to me how little McCain – or what McCain does – matters to me in this election. To me, it’s all about stopping the left’s empty suit front man, Obama.

It looks like everybody is going to lose in this election cycle. It’s just the degree to which we lose for which we are casting a vote. It’s referendum on socialist universalism. I’ll vote ‘against’, but how depressing it is to always play defense.

How demoralizing it is that the GOP has used the ‘Well they are worse!’ alibi to become the slovenly, complacent, and undisciplined party they are today. How sad that the only thing saving the GOP is the fact that the Democrats are so malicious.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:57:26 +0000

McCain has just dropped about 20 points in my eyes for his priggish pettiness.

By: Ed Wallis

Ed Wallis — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:40:56 +0000

The author: “Shouldn’t he have known? That last question is, perhaps, worth thinking about.”

Let’s just do that right now.

So, this “Clayton Williams” stuff of McCain’s campaign staff is supposed to nullify/equal out Barack Obama’s personal choice of a 20-year-long mentor of anti-American and racist Rev. Wright, a decade long relationship with anti-American and domestic terrorist William Ayers, and crook Tony Rezko?!

Gee…moral relativism sure makes liberal excuse-making – err – “thinking” easy.

What a load of horse hockey.