The Politico dedicates two staff reporters to a multiple page piece on President McCain as a critic of Obama’s.
Because that is new and original, and unlike the six months and several hundred million McCain spent in 2008 criticizing Obama.
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Hunter Gathers
Evidently, “Old Man Yells At Cloud” attracts eyeballs.
tomvox1
I’m out!
ek hornbeck
Or the 11 months and dozens of appearances on MTP and others he’s spent in 2009.
dmsilev
@tomvox1: Compared to his expertise on domestic affairs, foreign policy *is* his strong suit.
It’s all relative.
-dms
Jim
@Hunter Gathers:
Speaking of eyeballs, the picture with the article, if not the article itself, does capture the essence of the man.
flukebucket
I love the smell of a Pulitzer in the morning.
gwangung
Um, if he lost the last election (and by a fairly large margin), doesn’t that usually mean the losing party goes looking for a new leader?
Kryptik
Funny….McCain hasn’t lead anything since losing the ’08 election, not even in being a scold toward Obama.
But…coffee and doughnuts, folks, coffee and doughnuts.
God, I’m sick of people acting like their hip and fresh by soliciting political opinion from McCain, like he’s an ignored, independent voice. It lost its flavor way back in ’04, and yet the media are still chewing that same piece of gum long after the flavor’s been sucked dry and all you’re left with is an eraser with teeth marks in it.
Leelee for Obama
This! I always think of him as a crazed Alzheimer’s patient who thinks he’s getting shot down again. No offense to his service or imprisonment-just what I feel in my bones.
As to the Politico article, of course they needed two reporters, McCain spends far too much time talking out of both sides of his mouth for one to catch it all.
Miriam
This is so pathetic. I’m so sick of hearing from McCain. As far as I can tell he hasn’t done anything worthwhile in the Senate this year. I think the media wants do-overs on the election.
tomvox1
@dmsilev
Yes, in the way that McCain is always wrong and going off half-cocked (Cakewalk in Iraq, Russia/Georgia, Bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, the Thousand Year Reich in Afghanistan, etc) it is all relative…to someone with actual foreign policy credentials.
raptusregaliter
This is excellent news for John McCain!
Leelee for Obama
Speaking of eyeballs, the picture with the article, if not the article itself, does capture the essence of the man.
Darius
Well, it is original, in that the media doesn’t usually elevate the loser of a presidential election so soon after losing. (You never saw this sort of treatment with Gore and Kerry, and they lost by far smaller margins than McCain.)
Kryptik
And if it hasn’t been noted enough….this is the outfit that just had one of its top editors appointed to the Pulitzer board.
I’m waiting for when they announce the Politico’s prize win for their stirring expose of “McCain: Forgotten Genius”
Seanly
@tomvox1:
You forgot the rest of that line which included domestic policy as a new area of interest for McCain.
Along with that new McCain stupidity, there are lost of folks on both sides of the aisle talking about the need to reign in the federal deficit. Yes, let’s have the government now worry about deficit spending. Coz we’re all doing so well and the private sector is humming right along.
Oh, and John, that’s not Pulitzer you smell. You might wanna check your shoes.
The Moar You Know
Someone needs to send a Vietnamese reporter to interview him. I’ll bet that would go down real well.
Bring a camera. Let’s get a look at the real John McCain, the one with the anger management issues.
raptusregaliter
Uhhh… It looks like the editing feature worked after all.
Nothing to see here. Move along…
Persia
Remember all those detailed interviews they did with Gore in late 01? The Kerry ones in 05? Yeah, me neither.
C Nelson Reilly
I think I read somewhere that McCain was a POW
Kryptik
@Persia:
But Al Gore is searching for Manbearpig, and Kerry was French and a fake soldier, so there.
Now ‘scuse me while I throw this noose ‘o mine over this here overhang…
ET
Yet another reason to continue to ignore Politico.
phantomist
Titled:
Our Chat with Megan’s Dad
GregB
Once again McCain shows that he is one of the least principled politicians of this day.
He’s a political chameleon who changes to whatever is needed in order to stay in the news.
He is one of the biggest sleazebags ever and he also helped to foist onto the nation an even bigger sleazebag grifter in the name of Sarah Palin.
I am so tired of McCain’s phony outrage shtick.
Go away you grumpy, pasty, smelly old man.
-G
Sly
Isn’t there some mystical proverb about meeting your destiny on the road you take to avoid it?
People worried about the deficit during the Real Great Depression as well. Actually convinced FDR to scale back the New Deal, and got a pretty nasty double-dip recession as a result. And they did this in the same year McCain was born, coincidentally. If Obama takes up some kind of national educational standards bill, economics better be a part of it.
None of the indicators that the debt is becoming serious are flaring up. Inflation expectations are low (which, in some ways, is bad, in the sense that the government could do a lot more to prime the pump and a little inflation would probably be good right about now). Long-term rates remain low. The bond market is acting like the deficit doesn’t even exist, and that’s the thing Chicken Littles always point to as the sign of a debt-induced apocalypse.
People couldn’t possibly be trying to stave off a double-dip recession by limiting the one economic actor that’s needed to prevent it unless they know little to nothing about macro.
Pangloss
Every time I see something about McCain in the mainstream media, I hear the wah-wah guitar of porn music.
Zifnab
Why is the press so obsessed with what President McCain thinks of a first term Senator way out in the mid-west? Clearly, Washington and the media are suffering some serious racial bias, because no white senator would get so much attention.
Violet
I’d much rather they interview Jenny Sanford. She’s filing for divorce. She’s a refreshing change as a political wife…or soon to be ex-wife.
Zifnab
@Sly:
Or maybe the jackass Republicans are really just cheering for failure here. Economic catastrophe has been good times for Goldman Sachs and the Wall Street boys. Wild stock fluctuations can make you a lot of money, and when your losses are all backstopped by giant government bailouts, massive market volatility can only be your friend.
There’s a ton of money to be made on recessions. And the Republicans (or, at least their Tea Party proxies and corporate masters) could stand to benefit greatly.
mistersnrub
John Kerry = pathetic, namby-pamby loser
John McCain = wise statesman, noble in defeat
The Grand Panjandrum
So the guy who picked the former half-term governor of Alaska as his running mate is the titular head of the GOP. Sweet. What does Erick and the real conservatives have to say about this? Maybe they can get Senator DeMint to weigh in and vouch for McCain’s conservative bona fides. Or not.
Joe Lisboa
I think the media wants do-overs on the election.
THIS. What generates bigger headlines: “Obama Admin Works Quietly Behind the Scenes to Foster De-Nuclearization”
or
“WAR WITH IRAN!”?
Fuckin’ pathetic.
feebog
Two Trillion dollars in lost revenue due to the Bush tax cuts, check.
Two Trillion dollars up in smoke in an ill advised and ill planned invasion and occupation of a country without WMDS, check.
One Trillion dollars to big Pharma for Medicare D, check.
Three Quarter of a Trillion dollars to bail out the financial industry because of deregualtion, check.
Yeah, the deficit, Republicans and John McCain are really concerned about the deficit.
Insert your own laugh track here.
catclub
In spite of all the hand-wringing here about how things look bad, if the election were held today, I think Obama would do as well or better than he did last year.
People still know he nominated whats her name to be a heartbeat away from the nuclear codes (and that McWars would have already fired off half of them, too). The people who think that is a great idea are still a small minority.
I have some trust that the American people, (teabaggers included!) are, overall, sane in this regard.
freelancer
Well everyone knows you need two reporters to fully capture the Dickensian aspect of the
homelessthe Obama Administration.licensed to kill time
Bitter old man not interesting. Bitter old man should go out into wilderness, lie down under Sky God, expire. Stop haunting our teevee.
ruemara
I’d love to hear what President McCain thinks, but President Palin is having a book signin’. What to do, what to do.
DougJ
Actually… this piece was not so bad. It had a strong undertone if criticism.
Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@licensed to kill time: This.
carlos the dwarf
@Pangloss:
The actual name for the genre is “wakka-chikka” music.
(I’m serious.)
(/collegiate intellectual wankery)