The Ugly New McCain-By Richard Cohen (Wapo) "Once is tragedy-a second time is farce-McCain Is Both"

The Ugly New McCain

By Richard Cohen
Wednesday, September 17, 2008; Page

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McCain has turned ugly. His dishonesty would be unacceptable in any politician, but McCain has always set his own bar higher than most. He has contempt for most of his colleagues for that very reason: They lie. He tells the truth. He internalizes the code of the McCains -- his grandfather, his father: both admirals of the shining sea. He serves his country differently, that's all -- but just as honorably. No more, though.

I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain. Guilty. Those doing the accusing usually attributed my feelings to McCain being accessible. This is the journalist-as-puppy school of thought: Give us a treat, and we will leap into a politician's lap.

Not so. What impressed me most about McCain was the effect he had on his audiences, particularly young people. When he talked about service to a cause greater than oneself, he struck a chord. He expressed his message in words, but he packaged it in the McCain story -- that man, beaten to a pulp, who chose honor over freedom. This had nothing to do with access. It had to do with integrity.

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And so McCain lied about his lying and maybe thinks that if he wins the election, he can -- as he did in South Carolina -- renounce who he was and what he did and resume his old persona. It won't work. Karl Marx got one thing right -- what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html

so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." - Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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but will it last???

with the Rethugs most of the time. And didn't he as much as say McCrash's having been a POW gives him a pass on everything a month or so ago? Maybe what's changed is that now it's his stocks that are tanking.

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Ugly_New_McCain

wish more of the media would wake up

This is a great read. Hopefully the media will start following in his footsteps and expose the lies.

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