John McCain: Asshole

I already mentioned this, but it is worth going back to. Here is what John McCain said twice today while campaigning in New Hampshire:

This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.

This is simply disgusting, and I really hope that Barack Obama takes time out of his schedule to issue a denunciation of this kind of politics. If I was Obama, I'd say that John McCain should be ashamed of himself, that what he said is despicable and un-American, and he is simply wrong to question a fellow senator's patriotism. Make this a big fucking issue, because John McCain is a full-blooded asshole and needs to finally be called on it. Nobody can defend what McCain said today.

Even Joe Klein thinks it is a huge blunder:

This is the ninth presidential campaign I've covered. I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency. How sad.

Veterans are sickened by McCain's remark.

John Aravosis thinks this has Rove's fingerprints all over it. I wouldn't be surprised. But the media needs to get off their asses and show some outrage for once. They showed how it is done when Wes Clark said some inartful things about McCain's service and whether it qualifies him to be president. Will they do the same now that John McCain himself has questioned Obama's patriotism?

We'll see, won't we?