Ted Rall takes McCain to the woodshed

Ahh, yes, who could forget Schmuck Talk Express™ selling out his alleged principles in his previous presidential campaign and elsewhere?

“I hate the gooks,” he said in 2000. Is he privately saying, “I hate the hajjis” now?

Sucking up to South Carolina rednecks over the Confederate battle flag, then later saying he hadn’t been honest enough about how much of a suck-up he wanted to be.

Belatedly learning that Martin Luther King Jr. was a “transcendent figure,” more than a decade after originally opposing an MLK holiday. (What’s he think about Cesar Chavez right now?)

Anyway, read the full column for more.

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Ted Rall takes a whack at Obama

In “The Politics of Dopes,” Rall says Obama’s biggest problem is that he hasn’t created a coherent narrative of why he wants to be president.

In other words to mosh-mash presidents together, his vision thing is all hat and no cattle, Rall is claiming.

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Ted Rall calls out so-called “antiwar Democrats”

And, in doing so, not just one or two, but Congressional Democrats en masse, he again demonstrates again why he’s probably my favorite progressive columnist. He first notes:

In June Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Extra! Magazine wrote: “If the Democrat-controlled Congress wanted to force the Bush administration to accept a bill with a withdrawal timeline, it didn't have to pass the bill over Bush's veto--it just had to make clear that no Iraq War spending bill without a timeline would be forthcoming.”

Democratic leaders know that. And here's how I know they know: days after taking control of Congress, on January 30, they invited five constitutional law experts to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask them how they could end the war. Four out of five of the experts swore that the Democrats could stop the Iraq War just...like...that.

After accusing the mainstream media of perpetuating the myth that Democrats really do want to end the war, but can’t get a bill past Bush, Rall then observes:

You'd think the Democrats would want to end the Iraq War before their likely retaking of the White House, but that's because you're a human being, not a politician. Politicians are happy to dispatch hundreds of young American men and women to certain death (along with thousands of Iraqis), if the bloodshed squeezes out an extra half percentage point at the polls. Reid and Pelosi prefer to run against a disastrous ongoing Republican war than point to a fragile Democratic-brokered peace.

I really don’t think any more commentary is needed.

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