MCCain? Pickpocket or Magician?

This comment by GSpot 1 about "attacking McCain on his strength" made me want to jump up and down, screaming YEAH! because McCains' "reformer" and "maverick" stance is of course a perceived strength, not a real one.

McCain's bluster about reform is just a bunch of noise, meant to distract from what he is really doing.

Like a magician or a pickpocket, an attention-getting event catches the eye while the real action continues unobserved.

If you want a good laugh, or a sickening look at how obvious McCain's chicanery is, read on.

Read the following great article from the Washington post. Pity it was published the day before New Year's when most people aren't paying much attention to news. I have lifted a paragraph which is stunning in the quiet way it indicts McCain for 1984-ish doublespeak. (The reform institute?
The Real McCain

McCain's conduct as chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee ...has  raised questions about whether he took actions to benefit major contributors to his political network, which included his Senate and presidential campaign committees, his Straight Talk political action committee and a foundation that he helped start called the Reform Institute.

In 2003 and 2004, for example, McCain took two actions favorable to Cablevision, the cable TV company, while Davis, his chief political strategist at the time, solicited the company for a total of $200,000 for the Reform Institute, a tax-exempt group that advocated an end to outsize political donations.

Davis solicited an initial donation from Cablevision chief Charles Dolan a week after Dolan testified before the Senate Commerce Committee in favor of a position backed by McCain. Davis said there was no connection between the testimony and the solicitation.

Less than a year later, McCain wrote to the Federal Communications Commission recommending Cablevision's position on cable pricing, citing Dolan by name. Cablevision followed soon thereafter with a second $100,000 donation, the Associated Press reported.

Did you get that? McCain got $300k for his so called "Reform Institute"  by using influence on the FCC and the Senate Commerce committee which favored the donor??

and the purpose of the "Reform Institute" is to end outsize political donations!

bwahahahahaha!!!   I laugh because I refuse to cry at the insanity of TV reports framing him as a maverick.

If you want a nice video to email your friends, you can also take a look at:

McCain gets by with a little help from his "friends".