According to John McCain (for the past two or three weeks), “we need to know the full extent” of Barack Obama’s associations with “domestic terrorist” William Ayers. Now, I’ll get this out of the way right now: I think it’s a horseshit question. But I’ll tell you why.
Take a look at the video below. You may have already seen it, but look again. McCain asks the question, and puts Obama on the spot. What does Obama do? Of course, he answers the all-important question. At length, and in depth. But, while Obama is answering the question, what is McCain doing? He’s looking at the moderator and virtually begging to be given the floor so he can repeat the question as if it were unanswered. He’s not interested in the answer. He’s not interested in letting the general public hear the answer. He simply wants the question asked over and over again until election day, in the hope that people will vote for him, and not That One.
Now, I know how politics work. Politicians all lie, or stretch the truth to some extent. They all manipulate, they all distort the facts. But the fact of the matter is, some politicians do a damned fine job of it, and others are just plain not cut out for it. I think Lewis Black hit the nail on the head when he said “You have to manipulate me better!”
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