I Hate What You Just Said

I’ve been hatin’ on John McCain a lot lately.

Well, I just took another sip of hateorade.

This time, it is the ridiculous hypocrisy of Oily McWar’s August 18th VFW speech that is so grating:

Addressing the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars this morning in Orlando, John McCain came down harshly on rival Barack Obama for on his position and opinion on the Iraq war.

So what’s new?

This: McCain takes a new tack in tying Obama’s positions on the war to his personal desire to be president. “Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president.” (bold type added)

Hm.

In his memoir Worth the Fighting For (which is an awkward title, no?), McWar explained his own run for president in 2000 this way:

“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.” (bold type added)

These anti-McCain blog posts just write themselves! I think that unless ol’ Oily takes a vow of silence, and soon, he might just talk his way into second place in the election. If anyone pays attention, that is.