Jon Meacham (editor of Newsweek) just said on MTP that McCain ran a very noble campaign!

[ErinBerin84]

I would like to move on, but I just thought that was a very stupid comment...he said something like "We should note that Senator McCain ran an all in all, noble campaign...it could have been a lot worse in the last couple of months..." I am so sick of this revisionist history. And it made me think of the "insider" column in Newsweek where the picture they paint of McCain was as a removed romantic...they say that the Palin pick was "romantic, a bit impulsive"...that McCain thought his fake rushing back to Washington was "romantic"...etc. It reminded me of the column that Jon Mecham wrote about the problems with the Palin pick, and how even in that column, he bent over backwards to kiss McCain's ass.

[fasttense]

1. Noble like a horse's ass. n/t

[flpoljunkie]

2. Classy concession speech, not so classy campaign.

[acmavm]

3. Oh yeah, McCrank's a real noble guy. This is the same guy who didn't

give a shit that he possibly could have sentenced us to do time under a president Sarah-shit-for-brains.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. The Palin pick was "romantic"?

When's the last time you were wooed by a common, ignorant thug?

[Warren Stupidity]

5. True! (If you only count the last five minutes of his campaign.)

Otherwise it exceeded even the slime the bush crime family gave us.

[11 Bravo]

6. Yeah, noble, as in Nasty Old Bullshitter Lying Eagerly.

[Occam Bandage]

7. He nobly called him a socialist terrorist who dangerously didn't put America first?

[ErinBerin84]

8. and a perv who wanted to teach kids about sex

and someone who would rather play basketball than visit the troops....just to name a few.

[Occam Bandage]

10. All while raising your taxes with Bill Ayers.

[Olney Blue]

9. McCain's campaign was not noble.

[dennis4868]

11. it was the most...

most disgusting filthy in the gutter campaign in modern history....the McCain team did everything they could to paint Obama as a scary black man with ties to terrorist...FUCK MEACHAM!

[uponit7771]

12. Let him keep saying that, the GOP has lost ANOTHER generation of minorities because they're...

...willingness to be a non exclusive bunch.

[ErinBerin84]

13. oh yeah

and the Newsweek column also said that McCain thought the "joint town halls" would be "romantic"...I just think the article whitwashed over him and his role in the campaign tactics.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Huh?

Did he just "phone" his reporting in during the GE? Which campaign was he watching?
He obviously forgot McCain's apparent refusal to so much as look at Obama during the first debate.

He obviously forgot McCain's referring to Obama as "that one" during the second debate.

He obviously forgot about the McCain campaign "unleashing" Sarah Palin post VP-debate to publicly accuse Obama of, among other things, "palling around with terrorists" and being a "socialist" and continued to promote such charges at the third debate.

Although he did make SOME effort to try to tone things on the trail after people started yelling things like "kill him" and "off with his head", he and Palin (along with their new "friend", Joe The Plumber) continued to stoke people's fears about Obama throughout the rest of the GE.

Despite promises NOT to do so, he (implicitly) allowed the RNC to use Rev. Wright in the final days of the GE by not speaking out against them.

The only 3-4 things that McCain did during the campaign that I would consider to be decent or honorable were his "ad" congratulating Obama on his nomination at the DNC, his (minimal) attempts to calm down his audience by publicly reassuring a supporter that Obama was a "decent" person (and throwing his supporter into a confused tailspin), his concession speech, and probably, most importantly, his campaign refusing to allow Palin to deliver a "concession speech".

[rurallib]

15. It was Palin and the plumber that drug it down while John nobly

tried to stop it. O lord, these guys are never wrong about anything.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Well he's right.

If the standard is that no crosses were burned on live TV or that Ted Nugent didn't warm up the crowds by shooting an Obama effigy. If those were the standards then it was as pure as snow (no pun intended). :eyes:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Maybe that douche bag hasn't read this article yet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-blamed-by-the-US-Secret-Service-for-death-threats-against-Barack-Obama.html

Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama

[Gabi Hayes]

18. nothing but a propagandist.....either willful or exceedingly stupid:

From MSNBC's January 31 post-State of the Union coverage:

MATTHEWS: And here, the Democrats had a fellow come on tonight and say -- this is how strong he got -- "Are the president's policies the best way to win this war?" That's it. That was the criticism. Are they afraid to take on this president on his central, signature issue of the war in Iraq?

MEACHAM: Well, I hate to say it, but I do think that -- that response illuminates a good bit of the Democratic problem right now, which is that there is not been a powerfully articulated critique of this president. And there is a -- there's much to critique, obviously.

MATTHEWS: Are they afraid because of divisions within their own party over policy to make a clear statement?

MEACHAM: I think they're afraid because the people who get elected president, who are Democrats, are centrist governors. And I think that they have a very hard time playing to the -- keeping the left wing of their party happy, which is the base; and they're the very active people. They're the most vocal people. They're the people who have an almost irrational hatred of George W. Bush in the way the hard right in the Republican Party had an irrational hatred of Bill Clinton. I mean some things never change.



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PS...don't forget what a slimey, disingenuous opportunist Matthews always was, and always will be