Obama up, McCain on low road
By Dan Payne
July 31, 2008
FOR MONTHS, John McCain and the Republicans have been taunting Barack Obama for not having visited Iraq since 2006. So Obama goes to the Middle East and Europe, reminds people of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, and comes home to a 49-40 percent lead in Gallup’s Sunday tracking poll.
You can see a lot by looking, as Yogi Berra once said. While other polls show a tight race, McCain looks panicked. He is questioning Obama’s patriotism for opposing a war that McCain thinks we’re “winning.” Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a decorated Vietnam veteran, warned, “I think John is treading on some very thin ground when we start to get into ‘You’re less patriotic than me.’ “
The little people tell me. McCain has been pushing for a gas tax holiday, so a reporter asked the last time he pumped his own gas and how much he paid. McCain: “I don’t recall, and, frankly, I don’t see how it matters. [more]