behind the skirt

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Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office. You helped portray Obama as a clealy qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists. Writes Andy McCarthy at the Corner.

And Mr. McCarthy has a point. Does Senator McCain and his campaign genuinely feels that Barack Obama is the guy that Mr. McCarthy describes in his piece:

"Now, as the night went along, did you get the impression that Obama comes from the radical Left? Did you sense that he funded Leftist causes to the tune of tens of millions of dollars? Would you have guessed that he's pals with a guy who brags about bombing the Pentagon? Would you have guessed that he helped underwrite raging anti-Semites? Would you come away thinking, "Gee, he's proposing to transfer nearly a trillion dollars of wealth to third-world dictators through the UN"?

Now, that's a bit harder than what Governor Palin has been saying about Obama on the stump. But palling around with a domestic terrorist is pretty tough rhetoric from a Veep candidate. And she has said same repeatedly. And I'm sure Sarah isn't freelancing.

So the McCain campaign must feel the McCarthy question, "Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office" is a signature issue that needs to be brought to the attention of the American people.

So where was McCain last night on this. Shouldn't he have placed country first by calling out Obama for being "pals with a guy who brags about bombing the Pentagon."

He didn't because he knows the charge is bull shit. But that didn't stop him and the boys from hiding behind the skirt, to gin up the base, and elicit a few kill 'em(s) from the crowd.

Really ugly.

By the way, campaigning with McCain this afternoon in Pennsylvania, Palin made no reference to Ayers.

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McCain should be wearing the skirt.