McCain's Not Just Too Bloody Old, He Stands in the Way of a New FutureTHE McRove campaign has worked to make legitimate questions about John McCain out of bounds in this election by feigning outrage and lying outright. This week, we saw McRove
feigning outrage about the Obama camp's repeating the septuagenarian senator's own admission that he was just learning to use the computer and had others do his e-mail for him. McRove claimed that the legitimate concern that McCain doesn't know of or care about the revolution in technology (which is, ironically, keeping his redundant campaign in front of voters) was actually an attack on a disabled POW.
Apart from any
new-found concern for disabled veterans McCain may have (that he hasn't found the heart or care to support with his votes in the Senate), the McRove tactic completely ignored the senator's own musing that he's actually a proficient slave to his more restrictive Blackberry device.
from a July 2008
interview The New York Times published on McCain:
Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?
Mr. McCain: No
Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.
Mr. McCain: I use the Blackberry, but I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.
No matter . . . McRove admitted today that his boss is a liar and has 'gone too far' in his smear ads; quite a fall to have the master of campaign lies calling McCain's babies ugly. The new attempt by the McRove campaign to make legitimate questions out-of-bounds came today from their executive shill, Carly Fiorina, who called questions about septuagenarian senator's health and about the experience of his neophyte VP pick, ageism.
"This is someone who's going to be one heartbeat away from the presidency," she
said, referring to Palin after noting that McCain had already had cancer," said Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill on ABC today.
"I frankly find this disrespectful in the extreme. This is ageism," McCain's Fiorina responded.
"All you need to do is look at the schedule that John McCain has kept for the last two years to realize that he is one of the most vigorous, most energetic campaigners, frankly, in my judgment, out there . . . This continued resort to 'he's too old' is desperation, frankly," she said.
All of this concern about someone disrespecting these two demagogues is touching, but tough. If we can deal with his patronizing characterizations of support for Obama as some attraction to 'celebrity,' McCain can bear the obvious questions about his old age.
I happen to think any disrespect over age began with McCain's candidacy itself. The issue with a 72 year-old man running for the highest office in the land isn't just about a concern about his longevity or his physical or mental endurance; although, those are not trivial matters, considering that eight presidents have died in office and the fact of McCain's own battle with skin cancer. The audacity of McCain's bid for the presidency is his stubborn, self-centered presumption that his agenda to hold onto and continue the failures of the past should stand in the way of the clear change that the Obama campaign represents for the future.
It is a slap in the face of this and the next generation of Americans that McCain has positioned his potential presidency to obstruct the very changes that the majority of Americans have been clamoring for and to keep us tied and bound to notions of defense, health-care, and the economy which represent a step back from the progress voters should expect from the next administration.
McCain and his cheerleader, Palin's campaign behave like negligent, abusive parents who just won't let their grown children move up and on. Forget all of those things you though you needed and wanted out of your government and country and go back to your room. Forget about college, career, or whatever future you imagined possible and satisfy yourself with their worn-out, corrupted ambitions. Put all of your newfangled claptrap, like the internets and email away and go back to your room,wash up, and get ready for another meal of thin gruel.
I'm not in any mood to sit still and watch McCain and his wet-nurse re-run the last eight years of unbridled aggression, arrogance, sophistry, and greed. He's too old and in the way.
I'm ready to roll with the changes the Obama presidency promises; changes by a man who isn't wed to the practices and prescriptions of the old administration. And, I won't be dissuaded by McRove's phony outrage from reminding voters of McCain's unhealthy obsession with preserving the wasted and decrepit policies of the past.
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