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TENAC, the Election & Current Crisis

Written by JMG Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:32

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Listening to the Republican Candidate for President, one wonders whether one is hearing John McCain or Joe McCarthy. When McCain accuses Democratic Nominee Barak Obama of being "willing to lose the war in Iraq to win an election," the senior senator from Arizona morphs into the junior senator from Wisconsin. McCain's attack on Obama resurrects old 1950's Nixon/McCarthy demagoguery like "Who Lost China," and other extremist smears hurled against the Democrats. All that is missing is the classic Nixonian post-smear disclaimer: "Now I do not impugn ............'s patriotism." (Right after he did just that, of course.)

McCain's slanders against Obama signal the return of an especially vicious time in American political life. Senator Obama is obviously not "willing to lose a war to win an election," but is Senator McCain willing to resurrect Senator Joe McCarthy to win one? Is he willing also to have "McCainism" become synonymous with McCarthyism?

The McCainiacs have also coined the expression "Country First." What does that mean? That Obama puts country second? Third? Last? That is nothing but "McCarthy Lite." When the country has been put into an economic coma by George "Herbert Hoover" Bush, when our entire financial system seems headed for receivership, when Introduction to Economics 101 reads like rocket science to John McCain, what's the Republican Candidate to do? Why jump on the Republican "smearmobile" of course! Right-wing Republicans know that script well. The real question is whether the Republicans would rather exhume Joe McCarthy than lose an election.

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