Siding With McCain

I didn't support John McCain for President in back in 2000. I'm not about to change my mind this primary either unless he wins the nomination.  I respect Senator McCain for his service to his country and unlike John Kerry, McCain is a true hero.  Senator McCain is not Presidential material.  I disagree with him on some very fundamental issues such as the "Shamnesty" bill and of course, McCain-Feingold.

McCain poked a bit of fun during the last debate at Hillary Clinton and her support of a million dollar gift (of taxpayer money) to a Woodstock Museum.  McCain joked that Woodstock might have been a big cultural and pharmaceutical event.  He said he was too tied up to attend.  People got the joke and gave him a standing O.  It seems one moonbat lefty didn't think it was all that funny.

From Newsbusters:

McCain ad: Now my friends, I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was, I was tied up at the time.

(Matthews made clear that despite his differences with McCain on policy, he likes the senator and his history, and found the ad "thrilling." The 23-year old Klein was unimpressed.)

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Ezra, how many politicians get standing ovations at debates?

EZRA KLEIN: Not many, although look --

MATTHEWS: Oh, here we go. I knew he was going to dump on it. Okay.

KLEIN: I'm not of the boomer generation. I don't want to see us have another fight over who's a hippy and who's a soldier. I find it dull.

MATTHEWS: I don't. I find it inspiring.

JENNIFER DONAHUE [the impressive political director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics]: You know who doesn't find it dull? The military moms don't find that dull. Voters don't find that dull. There's a war going on and they find that important. McCain's using his sense of humor. This is the straight-talk, quirky McCain that people like.

(That's when Klein descended into the depths.)

KLEIN: McCain's on the wrong side of that war. It may be sense of humor but he was on the wrong side of the war.

Ezra Klein is 23 years old.  He's a smart guy but there is a certain wisdom gained from age that you can't get any other way.  He has accomplished despite his relative youth but saying that John McCain was on the wrong side of the war is akin to saying that the Communists were the ones on the right side of the war. 

Klein later said that he meant the Iraq War, but was means past and the Iraq war is in the present.

Klein is German for small or puny.  Apropos, don't you think?

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Comments

[BobF]

I read Klein's background and he's a punk who's been nowhere and done nothing. Many bloggers have life experiences to back them up but this kid has nothing. Except for working on Howard Dean's campaign and interning for some paper nobody's heard of, I can't find where he's held a job.