Maverickiness

Since the McCain campaign hired (was taken over by?) Rove acolyte Steve Steve Schmidt as a senior adviser, I have noticed a growing trend of character assassination against Obama as well as a Bush-like blurring of and obfuscating the truth. That and the fact that the dc press establishment can't or won't call any candidate on half truths or lies, which is always an advantage to modern Republican candidates because they play politics for keeps and will sink the level needed to win. It's time to document the atrocities.

Andrew Sullivan asks, what is the true story of the the "cross in the dirt story?"

Oh, and I watched the Saddleback forum this weekend (and will comment on that later), but it appears that McCain is pissed that it is even hinted that there is an outside chance that he possibly cheated because he arrived late and was not in the "cone of silence." Read about it here, here, and here. Glad Andrea Mitchell softened this possible accusation by stating on MTP that "The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted..." When asked about the McCain campaign's letter this morning to NBC, Mitchell replied "I wasn't expressing an opinion, I was reporting what they were saying." It's "facts" like insinuating that Obama lost (or underperformed) at the Saddleback forum that that make Fox News fair and balanced. Kudos Andrea.


_John

image: from Ben Baker / REDUX