McCain Goes After Me

How out of touch can you be by tossing out the "MoveOn compared Bush to Hitler" canard? For all the bluster about "straight talk", John McCain is more in the Washington bubble than pretty much any candidate running for President (all right, maybe except for Biden). Only someone who has no idea what he's tlaking about would say this:

Danny Diaz, a McCain spokesperson, responded to MoveOn's ad by telling ABC News: "MoveOn.Org is an out-of-the-mainstream organization that has a long history of airing inflammatory material, even comparing the President to Hitler. It is not surprising that a liberal group opposed to military action after September 11th would attack Senator McCain's conservative values, as well as changing strategy and securing victory in Iraq."

MoveOn.org is 3 million people strong. Their members made 7 million phone calls to help the majority party get elected in November. The notion that MoveOn compared Bush to Hitler is wrong, on its face: a couple videos in an open contest did so, none of which ended up winning anything or being rated up by the membership. It's comment-diving of the worst stripe. Additionally, they did not oppose military action after September 11.

I'm extremely proud to be a part of an organization concerned with giving ordinary people a voice in our democracy. John McCain is offended by that because he, like his DC elite pundits, don't believe in democracy in the sense that they don't believe the rabble should have a voice, especially if those rabble disagree with them (disagreeing meaning not wanting to bomb our way out of every problem).