What Passes For Integrity
Apr 24th, 2008 at 2:53 pm by Susie
Via Kevin Drum:
David Broder says John McCain “is the rare exception who is not assumed to be willing to sacrifice personal credibility to prevail in any contest.” Bob Somerby is pissed:
The Dean doesn’t tell us who assumes this — nor does he say if their assumption is warranted. And this is odd, because let’s be frank: John McCain basically lied through his teeth all through his last run for the White House.
He lied about the Confederate flag — later said that he had, for God’s sake. He lied about Bush’s tax proposal. He ran a phone bank against Bush in Michigan, then openly lied about that. He reinvented his stand on abortion every time he opened his mouth. He kept telling a nasty joke about Gore — a “joke” which was utterly bogus on the factual level.
May I suggest that McCain’s fibs are catagorically different from those of Clinton and Obama? The catagory most important is what will these people actually attempt to do once in office. Hillary and Obama say they will get us out of Iraq. You know they won’t; neither wants to take credit for “losing Iraq.” Both say they will balance the budget, and introduce massive new spending, and give tax-relief to the middle class. Can liberals add? Democrats cannot win the credibility argument by running Clinton or Obama. Maybe you can draft Al Gore at the convention…