Huffington Post: Just. Doesn't. Get It

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-sweeney/just-doesnt-get-it_b_98970.html

John Sweeney

Posted April 28, 2008 | 12:02 PM (EST)

I thought John McCain couldn't top the insensitivity and tone-deafness of staging a PR event in Memphis, Tenn., on the recent anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. After all, he cast the deciding vote against the 1990 Civil Rights Act, opposed a national MLK holiday and hasn't done people of color and the poor any economic favors.

But he keeps going. And the further he goes, the more he demonstrates that when it comes to working family issues, he just doesn't get it.

McCain went to Youngstown, Ohio, where he praised job-killing trade deals in front of a shut-down factory and claimed to understand working families who are losing homes and jobs and feeling "counted out" -- because for a while he was behind in the Republican polls. McCain himself is the ninth-richest member of Congress and owns several homes worth more than $10 million.

He went to fundraisers in Arkansas, where Carly Fiorina, "victory chairman" for the Republican National Committee, attested that McCain is "very much in touch" with working folks. Fiorina, of course, is the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who laid off thousands of workers. When she herself was shown the door, she left with a $21 million severence package. Nonetheless, in Spring Lake, Mich., McCain called her "one of the great role models and leaders in America."

He went to New Orleans, where he blasted the Bush administration's failures to respond when Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast and devastated lives. Apparently it slipped his mind that while New Orleans was drowning, he was enjoying cake right beside President Bush in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday.

In city after city across the country, McCain is talking the good talk. I challenge him to bring his votes and policies into line with his rhetoric.

FULL story at link.

[MadMaddie]

1. If we could finally get down to one Democratic Candidate we

could start attacking McCAin in earnest.