McCain, in desperation, goes negative

LaRue S. Boenig, Henderson

Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.

I am livid. I find unbelievable what John McCain is saying and what he is allowing to come from his campaign and surrogates.

Earlier this year he said he would not run a negative campaign, but rather a respectable one. His wife, Cindy McCain, said on the “Today” show in May, “No negative stuff will come from our side.”

Yet they have presented the lowest of low, disrespectable, negative, mean-spirited campaign I have ever witnessed. He says he talks straight, yet when he opens his mouth, out comes venom.

Barack Obama got beat up by McCain for not going to Iraq, then when Obama did go to Iraq and the trip was an international sensation, McCain went ballistic. McCain cannot have it both ways. (Like Bush, McCain thinks it’s his way or no way.)

McCain blames Obama for the gas price increase, which is absurd and ridiculous. McCain says Obama would lose the war in Iraq if it would help him win the election (sounds like a Bush/Rove tactic), thus questioning Obama’s patriotism — a lack of sensitivity on the part of McCain.

Now the lowest of all, comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. This sounds as if it is coming from a very desperate man who has resorted to shabby and nasty maneuvers.

McCain said he would not use his prisoner of war experience as a campaign ploy. Watch the ads and you will observe, he did not keep his word. He is starting to sound like a bitter, jealous, grumpy old man. Please, America, wake up! We need a change for the good of us all. And it is not another Bush administration.