He’s using different words. But it sounds like one-time McCain fan Andrew Sullivan has come to the same conclusion I have (see below): he’s morally unfit to be president.
He says it well too.
McCain Ad Cites Discredited Claim That Dems Sent Team to Dig Up Palin Dirt We’re clearly into the white water rafting phase of the 2008 campaign. But while we’re keeping up to speed on the craziness, I wanted also to make sure you check out our TPMCafe Book Club this week on Bernard Avishai’s new book The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last. You can dive in with the latest post in the discussion, from The New Yorker’s Rick Hertzberg. You won’t want to miss this conversation or this post.
In his new ad out today John McCain makes Katie Couric complicit in his new smear ad, another flat out lie. Is she going to speak out on this? Or mum’s the word? Don’t want to interfere?
Wooten Says He Hasn’t Been Contacted By Trooper-Gate Probers She just repeated the Bridge fib one more time.
Even last night, it was so bad even Chris Matthews started a count for how many times she’s done it …
I can’t understand the rationale for Obama to clarify his “lipstick on a pig” remark first thing this morning at the top of his speech. It was a good line. It riffed off of Palin’s lipstick/pitbull line in her acceptance speech. It was pointed, sure. But so what?
Yes, Obama sort of laughed it off and dismissed the criticism with some elan. He wasn’t overly defensive about it, but he was still playing defense. His whole orientation is wrong. Today, you come up with a good new line. You play off of the previous day’s good line. You keep moving the ball forward.
The McCain camp is running an ad linking Obama to sex and children — and Obama is taking valuable time at the beginning of his speech to explain how he wasn’t really indirectly calling Sarah Palin a pig?
As Begala says: Attack! Attack! Attack!
The Daily Muck 
Rep. Wilson: DOJ Hasn’t Contacted Me On Abramoff Following up on the post below, it seems Joe Klein agrees, calls McCain’s latest “one of the sleaziest ads I’ve ever seen in presidential politics.” There’s just no getting around it at this point, the man is not morally fit to serve as president.