POW Card and Presidential Politics
25 August 2008 7:25 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Reporting from Denver
The how many houses do you have? issue just won’t go away. So in an
effort to recover, McCain
played the POW card.
“I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life,” McCain
said. “I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair,
and I know what it’s like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great
nation.”
It’s a crass assessment, but it’s true. That’s exactly what he did.
Because McCain got caught with his real estate hanging out, he has the audacity
to challenge everyone to call him on it by using an issue that makes even the
most hardened political analyst blanch when considering a rebuttal.
But even Maureen Dowd, who’d likely choose tea with Charles Manson over any Democrat, except Joe Lieberman, finally raised
it yesterday.
So it’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding
his credit limit on the equivalent of an American Express black card. His
campaign is cheapening his greatest strength — and making a mockery
of his already dubious claim that he’s reticent to talk about his P.O.W.
experience — by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no
matter how unrelated. The captivity is already amply displayed in posters
and TV advertisements.
If you didn’t get it yet, get it now. John McCain wants the presidency badly.
He’s now illustrated he’ll do anything, say anything, stoop to any lengths
to get it.
Democrats need to remember that this week and make sure that by Friday everyone
has heard the case for why John McCain is not only the wrong person for the
job, but dangerous to even consider. Because come the GOP convention he’ll be wrapped in the flag like he’s the second coming of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Just remember that Ike’s granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower, is backing Obama.
