tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660542669969885158.post3761427358378796025..comments2009-03-20T17:07:45.262-07:00Comments on Sad Commentary: Obama Campaign Questions John McCain's HonorSad Commentaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789880635134709591noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660542669969885158.post-25485094660166344422008-09-22T21:08:00.000-07:002008-09-22T21:08:00.000-07:00Noni, it appears that you're trying to outflank me...Noni, it appears that you're trying to outflank me on the reasonableness and evenhandedness front. How dare you! :-)Sad Commentaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06789880635134709591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660542669969885158.post-3790769734145656842008-09-22T06:26:00.000-07:002008-09-22T06:26:00.000-07:00I agree. He lost the moral high ground on that is...I agree. He lost the moral high ground on that issue when he allowed his fundraising success to overshadow his previous commitment. And I take my hat off to McCain for sticking to his guns on McCain-Fiengold Campaign Finance Reform.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660542669969885158.post-47385631132241425422008-09-21T20:30:00.000-07:002008-09-21T20:30:00.000-07:00Your argument is not unreasonable, and I agree wit...Your argument is not unreasonable, and I agree with you that McCain's history as a POW does not earn him a pass on everything. In my view, however, it does earn him a great big benefit of the doubt that the type of adjustments in position that all politicians make do not make him a dishonorable flip-flopper. I also don't automatically assume that Obama's adjustments to his positions reflect a lack of honor. They're both politicians and they both need to sensitive to political reality. That does not make them dishonorable.<BR/><BR/>The one Obama change that I do have the biggest problem with (although I will not call him dishonorable over it) is breaking his pledge to accept public financing until he realized he could raise more money without it.Sad Commentaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06789880635134709591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660542669969885158.post-67262115161107515532008-09-21T04:30:00.000-07:002008-09-21T04:30:00.000-07:00"It's a free country, and anyone is free to questi..."It's a free country, and anyone is free to question John McCain's honor. Those who chose to do so, however, will only succeed in demonstrating that they don't know the meaning of the word."<BR/><BR/>Isn't that the same rhetoric you are so critical of in the post below? Although I greatly admire McCain's service to his country, I do question his honor based on his hypocrisy on various issues: he was against torture before he was for it; against disastrous, budget-busting tax cuts before he was for them; critical of right-wing televangelists before he embraced them; and so on. I am critical of Obama for the same flip-flops on offshore drilling, immunity for telecoms, and other issues. <BR/><BR/>People are complex and do all kinds of things during their lives that are honorable and dishonorable. Nobody gets a pass because they did one, big honorable thing. If McCain gets drunk and drives into a crowd on the sidewalk, must we continue to accept him as the epitome of honorableness because of something he endured bravely 35 years ago? No, of course not. I think it poisons the well to say if I think McCain's flip-flops are dishonorable, then I must not know what honor is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com