Leave a Comment

McCain's housing gaffe doesn't matter because - are you ready? - he was a POW
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... John McCain's former POW status to defend him from attacks regarding his gaffe yesterday in which he couldn't remember how many houses he owns. You see, the McCain campaign explained to the Washington Post today, McCain was a POW. It's not entirely clear why that's relevant to a discussion of McCain owning 7 or 8 or 9 homes, and not being able to remember exactly how many homes he owns, but it apparently doesn't matter. Because McCain was a POW. Did everybody get that? Ben Smith at Politico has more, including a warning that McCain may be overusing the POW card ...

Pulling A Giuliani
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — "This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," - Brian Rogers, McCain spokesman, responding to Obama mocking McCain for not knowing how many houses he owns. This was McCain's rhetorical gambit when accused of carpet-bagging earlier in his career. Hilzoy is getting tired of McCain playing the POW card without reason. Ben Smith's take: It does seem like they're flirting with Giuliani/9/11 territory here, in which at subject that seems utterly immune to humor, used as a first resort, suddenly becomes a ...

TNR Exclusive: Long Lost McCain Video Exhumed
The Stump — ... have suggested, yesterday may go down as the day the McCain campaign jumped the shark on Vietnam. In response to Obama's attack on his hard-to-count real estate holdings, McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers ...

Pundits And Writers Start Hitting McCain For Non-Stop P.O.W. References
TPM Election Central — ... "It does seem like they're flirting with Giuliani/9-11 territory here," opined Politico's Ben Smith, "in which a subject that seems utterly immune to humor, used as a first resort, suddenly becomes a running joke among your political enemies and your late night comic friends." ...

You just can't make this shit up
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... McCain aides referred back to McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in defending him from the mockery over his houses. "This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," said spokesman Rogers. ...

McCain Eats the Seed Corn.
Daily Kos — ... of something impressive. Newsweek's Fineman: I think they are going to it way too many times.... I think he wisely for many years stayed away from it as a political tool, he really did. But now it not only defines him, it’s become a crutch in the campaign. And I think he is in danger of trivializing it. By the time they get to the convention in St. Paul, there might not be much of it left to use. Politico's Smith: It does seem like they're flirting with ...

McCain Camp’s Overplaying of POW Card Called to Account From All Corners
Crooks and Liars — ... Presidential Candidates Forum, but quite literally offering it as an excuse for anything and everything to the point many in the media have begun questioning the tactic: Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. … That was followed by Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, Politico’s Ben Smith, and Time’s Ana Marie Cox (h/t ...

Has The Worm Turned? Versailles Starts To Flip Over POW Card. Daou's Triangle Closing?
Open Left - Front Page — ... that defined John McCain....  But now it not only defines him, it's become a crutch in the campaign. And I think he is in danger of trivializing it. By the time they get to the convention in St. Paul, there might not be much of it left to use." Ana Marie Cox: The McCain campaign's constant invocation of the candidate's POW past is weird bordering on irrational.... It's a head-spinning non sequitur... Ben Smith The POW card .... It does seem like they're ...