’)Jake Tapper follows the media line and jumps into a defensive crouch for John McCain, not being man enough to make a forthright accusation but still saying the Obama camp called McCain “confused” because of his age. While more than a few of the nutty things McCain says and believes are likely products of his advanced age, at the same time he’s just amazingly wrong on a lot of things. That’s why he comes across as confused. The Obama camp said nothing of age, but ABC’s Jake Tapper felt he had to rush to McCain’s defense.
Odd how that happens.
Tapper, writing in his own voice:
On the other hand, voters might not have these concerns!
Well, they do now. Thanks, Jake.
A lot of these guys treat John McCain as if he were their daddy.
Did you see the comments on his website? They were there for a long time before anyone caught on; here they are, saved for posterity: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/11/2165/55268/106/533829
St Reagan was more loved as the doddering grampa than as the man who stole scholarships from academically gifted poor children, the man who said ketchup was a vegetable..for the poor, the man who gave weapons to murdering scum in Nicaragua, the man who eliminated taxes for wealthy contributors, the man who invited criminals to the public treasury….
You know, I think that Obama was taking shots at McCain’s age by saying how he was “confused.” There were also echoes of this when he said that McCain had “lost his bearings,” in the hopes that people would make the implied mental association with McCain having “lost his marbles.”
However, Tapper responds to this needling of McCain with all the sensitivity of someone whose just heard his father’s manhood questioned.
It is not by accident that Obama is using these words. He’s a smart guy and it’s smart posturing. I don’t see why we should feel affronted by this. We’re also going to hear Obama referred to as “urbane” and “uppity” and “elitist” as though we don’t know what the opposition is saying.
It happens to be the case that McCain is old and confused and losing his bearings, so in addition to using clever and manipulative wording, Obama is also speaking to a fundamental truth.
I’m surprised that more media types aren’t mentioning the fact that McSame came in like number 880 out of 890 Annapolis grads. The man is just not smart. I see no desire to learn, no curiousity, no itch to dig out the facts from McSame.
What I do see is more of the past eight years.