Pitiful / vile
Terence at Republic of T posted this earlier today with the comment “Pitiful: that’s the only word I can think of to describe this.” Vile was the word that came to my mind.
The “outraged” individual is Republican strategist Brad Blakeman, commenting on why it’s more outrageous for Obama to take a campaign plane to go visit his possibly dying grandmother than for the McCain campaing to spend $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin (that’s in, what, two months? Which is about $2,500 a day?).
As Terence points out, the idea of a presidential candidate, in this day and age, taking a commercial flight is just ludicrous. Not to mention the callous insensitivity of criticizing a man visiting his seriously ill grandmother. Every word that comes from these people’s mouths just digs them into a deeper hole with the electorate.
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Published: Oct 24 2008
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Tags: Barack Obama, election campaign 2008, John McCain, McCain, Sarah Palin
Category: Politics
Being overseas, the only exposure I get to this kind of stuff is through you – so, thank you for posting all this! I have already voted, so I’m just waiting, not-so-patiently, for this to all be over. I have honestly been shocked and horrified at the dastardly behavior of the Republican party and the McCain campaign.
May we all be celebrating Obama’s success on November 5th!!