The BDS Virus Mutating into McDS

Everyone knows that I am no McCain fan and I don't want to even get into that again.

Suffice it to say that I am uncertain who to vote for in the fall between McCain and a number of write in candidates. I don't want to get into that either. Any vote for McCain on my part will be hugely reluctant.

The Detroit Free Press reprinted a Miami Herald editorial today that took Barack Obama to task for not standing up to those that have tried to link him with Islam. While there have been a few attempts to do so from conservative pundits, though most were simply asking questions about a possible connection very early in the campaign, the vast majority of blogs and commentators have rejected this connection time and time again as being grossly inaccurate. The opinionist, Leonard Pitts Jr, writes as if every conservative believes the connection is truthful and is doing his best to expand on it.

Pitts believes that Obama owes it to America to visit a mosque and to face these challenges head on. I suppose if that does it for Pitts, we can assume he has captured that vote.

What astounded me though was the comments in that one obscure opinion piece, and this is where I swing back to John McCain.

anctruthandrec:

The problem is that McCain broke like a soft-boiled egg and spewed sensitive military information to his Viet Cong captors in exchange for better treatment. He sold out on his fellow POWs. Later he trhew a trantrum so that the record would become classified and not become available for public consumption. There's plenty of evidence and eye witness testimony from his fellow POWs. The man's a traitor, pure and simple.

cjblue:

And Dr. Wesley Clark is correct, no matter how 'politically incorrect' everyone thinks it sounds. Just because the man was a POW does NOT automatically make him presidental material. Period. Any thinking person would question his mental health (and the circumstances of his time as POW), and to watch him speak and stumble and mumble and trip over things and people he should know is a BIG eye opener of what kind of confused and muddled mind he has. He says what he is told and he doesn't even pull that off correctly. I believe the man has PTSD.

Adds romeo257:

John Mc Cain has flipped flopped like a Mackeral spawning everytimes he runs for President. From the MLK holiday to the Confederate Flag, and taxes! He is the consumate politician with the Beer Queen wife who he married after abandoning a wife who was involved in a dibilitating accident, what character! He represents a party that whitewashes a false War, outs female CIA agents, lies about it, demonizes anyone who disagrees with them by calling them disloyal and TORTURES PEOPLE! We are a scorned Country because of this and we should vote for WHO? OBAMA, that's who!

An opinion piece that falsely accuses right wing pundits of systematically lying about Obama and takes Obama to task for not adequately defending himself almost immediately collapsed into a cesspool of the most bitter sorts of false accusations about McCain.

Love or hate Obama or McCain, it is impossible to fathom how such hateful lying will ever help to clarify who should be elected as our next president.