Shorter McCain: Trust me

By Libby

This one had me gagging tonight. McCain had the nerve to say Obama's word can't be trusted, unlike his own.

"You know, this election is about trust, and trusting people's word, and unfortunately apparently on several items, Sen. Obama's word cannot be trusted," McCain said in Louisville, Kentucky. The comment came as McCain criticized Obama for reversing positions on public financing and other issues.

And this on the heels of his having told a Latino audience how much he cherished "the contributions of Hispanic-Americans to the culture, economy and security of the country I have served all my adult life." He was pumping up his support of the immigration bill he has reversed on when he's talking to his fundie base.

I'm with Creature on this one. The hypocrisy is astounding. And the author's failure to point out that McCain has taken the reverse position is not only nauseating, it's inexcusably negligent.

And by the way, if you've been wondering why I've slacked off on McCain here, it's because I have a lot of blogs. I've been concentrating my bashing at the Detroit News.

Comments

[Capt. Fogg]

The sort of people who will believe Obama can't be trusted aren't going to bother with the illogic or hypocrisy of McCain's pronouncement. It's used by every candidate against every other candidate and in fact you can't trust any of them, but people need to have a canned reason to denounce someone they don't like for other reasons than that he's black and a centrist and a Democrat, so McCain is happy to provide it.

[Libby]

I'm afraid you're right Fogg.