Bill Keller is right, the dumbasses who attack him are well--dumbasses

The John McCain New York Times profile is not about sex with a lobbyist--indeed very little of it even mentions that icky chapter in his life.

Much more horrible, is the rest of the carefully researched article. It described a man who believes he's a moral hero, a war hero, and indeed a mighty hawk (mightier and more efficient than George W by the way).

Psychologists describe the phenomenon of the person, who believes that because he's been recognized as some kind of moral hero--that he can do whatever he wants--pulling back to apologize cockily when nailed.

It's scary--and this is the last sort of person we want in charge of middle-class people's lives--our mortgages, our savings, our taxes, our sons and nephews who he will surely do his best to send to war.

I know that the brilliant McCain morals profile will be studied by thousands of civics and political science students as a study of one pol's slovenly amoral and cheezey political behavior.

The article contains very little about the girl (the aspect seized upon and attacked by the junky tabloid media).

I don't care about his compromised relationship with the girl who looks amazingly like a young version of his wife. Big deal.

That relationship which he righteously denies is just one more nail in the coffin and by itself is nothing. But one look at his playful, chuckling, low-key strutting demeanor says it all to me--the man's got the juice of a knee-jerk womanizer.

The only person who's damaged by all this is his dazed poor wife who looks as if her teeth are permanently clenched. Indeed I can't really bear look at her frozen face --the suffering is so vivid..

Run for the hills Mrs, McCain. You have the bucks.. If you could only smile, you'd be lovely. Run. Run. Make a different life. He's already dumped one wife. Shedding one more isn't going to hurt his career any more.

Comments

[MRG18]

I guess the author didn't see Democratic operative Lanny Davis's recent remarks in support of John McCain, based on his own experience lobbying McCain and McCain NOT supporting what Davis was lobbyiing. Davis said MCain is one of the most honest men he knows. Time to take your partisan hat off and show a modicum of fairness.

[ArlaJones]

Susan, honey, you're making a fool of yourself. Do try to keep up. It helps when you take your head out of the sand. Even the NYT has apologized for the story and their own public editor chastised them for running the story. Dumbass indeed...

[Gibbons]

Look up the story about the USS Forrestal disaster where 130 people died. I found two websites that mentioned McCain. One said the missile was from McCains plane and was deemed to be an act of God. the other website was from CHINFO (Chief of Information which stated that McCain said "I heard a whoosh and saw the missile hit the other plane".