Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those
who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
-- John F. Kennedy

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Oh, John ... how could you?

There is a great post today over at Daily Kos by Georgia10 called Deconstructing the Digital Era:
"John McCain has a YouTube problem. For McCain, the dangers of the digital age lay not in a single lie spread wide by email, but in his own multiple lies and panders, presented in his own words, on video. There are countless of mash-ups on YouTube and other video sites of McCain vs. McCain, offering up in delicious clips the devastating sound-bites of McCain taking one position (when it was political convenient to do so) and then taking another."
The heat on McCain will slowly rise with every video that bounces around the Internet showing his current positions and contrasting them with his former positions. This isn't a flip-flopping issue, it's a pandering issue and a character issue. John McCain will say anything to get elected, and then deny he ever said it!
Check out this example:

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