John McCain is a Coward

It’s nice to see Barack Obama call John McCain what he is, a coward:

Obama also said he was surprised some of those attacks weren’t brought up by his opponent at the debate Tuesday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

“I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face. But I guess we’ve got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate.”

John McCain fancies himself a hero because he was a terrible pilot that ruined four incredibly expensive airplanes and got himself captured. That’s not courage in my book. That’s reckless incompetence. I know he suffered terribly for his incompetence, and I’m sorry about that. But the old codger hasn’t learned a damn thing from his experiences and he’s afraid to be a man and level his accusations to Obama’s face. He knows Obama is the better man. And John McCain is afraid. All bullies are ultimately, deep-down, afraid. McCain is no different. He’s spent his whole life mistreating people and we’re supposed to respect the fact that he was mistreated? I don’t respect John McCain. I don’t think anyone who knows him well really respects him either. What is there to respect? Show me one thing about John McCain that I can respect? That he graduated third from the bottom at the Naval Academy? That he used a fellow cadet to take the fall so he wouldn’t be kicked out for having too many demerits? That he crashed three planes? That he flew too low and got shot down in a fourth? That he broke under torture and denounced his country? That he followed orders and refused early release? That he dumped his disabled wife for a beauty queen? That he used his beauty queen’s money to buy a congressional seat and immediately went about soiling the institution with his corruption? That he voted against Martin Luther King Day? That he voted to impeach a president for getting a blow job? That he was one of the first members of the Senate to advocate invading Iraq? That he couldn’t denounce the Confederate Flag? That he is running a dishonorable campaign, now?

John McCain isn’t a hero. Heroes put their lives on the line to help people in trouble. McCain never did that. Barack Obama is right. John McCain doesn’t have the courage to say a peep to Obama’s face. But he’ll talk about him behind his back. That’s the kind of punk John McCain is and always has been. McNasty is just a third-rate legacy, with a fourth-rate character. Everyone who has ever worked with him thinks he is a jerk.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.