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Monday, May 12, 2008

About that "judgment" thing....
Posted by Jill | 6:23 AM
At least for the moment, Rev. Jeremiah Wright has disappeared from the front pages as Barack Obama grows closer to wrapping up the Democratic nomination. But Obama's association with Wright bound to come up again, and the word we're going to hear most often in its context is the question of "judgment" in one's associations.

So let's talk about judgment and associations, shall we? Melina posted last week about McCain's embrace of "Pastor" Rod Parsley as a "moral compass", and we all know about McCain's association with the equally lunatic John Hagee:





Then last week I wrote about McCain's role in allowing a campaign contributor to swap his own acres of scrub for more valuable federal land.

But it doesn't stop there. On Saturday, the man McCain picked to run the Republican National Convention, Doug Goodyear, resigned after it came to light that his firm had lobbied on behalf of the military junta in Burma that is now refusing to allow aid to get to the people of that devastated nation.

And he continues to use his wife's corporate jet, paying below-market rates for flying around the country in his presidential bid.

The Official Party Line about McCain is that he is a man who was chastened by his involvement in the Charles Keating S&L scandal, and his "straight-talking maverick" persona is a result of his efforts to rebrand himself. But when you take a closer look at McCain, you see a man who's still seduced by contributor cash, who's still willing to at the very least dance around the edge of campaign finance rules, and who is willing to whore for votes by embracing some of the most extreme, most intolerant, most inflammatory religious figures in the country.

Barack Obama ought to welcome a debate about judgment and associations -- provided he's willing to turn over the rock of the mythical war hero and expose the maggots that lie beneath.

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