Flashback: McCain Condemned Robo-Slime In 2000 As "Hate Calls"

[DVDDude]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/flashback_mccain_condemned_rob.php

Now, we all know about how the rnc and John McCain are sending out mass robo-calls to falsely attack Obama and paint him as a domestic terrorist. With that said...

Joe Klein adds an important point to the evolving story about John McCain's massive robo-sleaze campaign, pointing out that McCain was once outraged by this tactic -- when he was the victim of it, that is:

Back in 2000, in South Carolina, the robocalls -- and calls to local right-wing talk radio shows -- were about John McCain's "interracial child" and Cindy McCain's drug addiction. They were a craven, disgusting tactic by the George W. Bush campaign. McCain was, rightly, outraged by them.
Now McCain's campaign is making robocalls distorting Barack Obama's non-existent relationship with Bill Ayers...

Now this isn't quite the spew that McCain suffered in South Carolina, but hey, he's got three more weeks to descend to that.

Klein adds that "Senator Honorable" is now in the "sewer." Brutal. And, by the way, it's true: McCain did condemn robocalls in 2000. On February 20 of that year, according to Nexis, he called them "hate calls" and complained about being "inundated" by them.

But that was then. Today, they're perfectly acceptable -- as long as McCain is using them on someone else.

It's only the latest example of McCain jettisoning a previously held -- or previously claimed -- principle in the face of his more and more likely defeat.

 

[boredtotears]

How's life treating you in Brooklyn?

 

[corndog]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/flashback_mccain_condemned_rob.php

Now, we all know about how the rnc and John McCain are sending out mass robo-calls to falsely attack Obama and paint him as a domestic terrorist.

We do?

 

[corndog]

How's life treating you in Brooklyn?

This happens when I just realized that DisneyJosh had become SteveinBrooklyn.

How can I keep up?

 

[Mr Man]

How's life treating you in Brooklyn?

Hold on....I am (oh what's the word)......outraged? No, that's not it......

Couldn't care less? Yes, that fits very nicely. It wouldn't affect me at all.


Were there any questionable voter registrations that were generated as a result of these robo-calls?

(silence)

 

[SteveInBrooklyn]

This happens when I just realized that DisneyJosh had become SteveinBrooklyn.

How can I keep up?

That's news to me.