Back in 2004, I was abhorred by the swift boating of John Kerry and the ease with which the right embraced this type of maliciousness.
The questioning of John McCain's military record can only occur because of the internet and the example of the Swift Boaters in 2004. Certainly the main stream media wouldn't question McCain on his military record, yet they were perfectly willing to allow the right to attack Kerry's with paid ads.
It was the right that dropped the hands off the military record agreement. Its curious to see that the issue of McCain's record which forms a large part of his political and public persona as it were, is being questioned by the left. The left is using many of the right's unsavory tactics.
Once the issue is merely brought up into the consciousness of the public's collective mind, a sense of doubt arises as well. Isn't this the intent?
Politico: Some on left target McCain's war record
Noam Chomsky, the linguist and activist, said in an email that he thought Americans should question the relevance of McCain's torture in an unjust war to his campaign.
"The questions could scarcely even be understood within the reigning intellectual and moral culture—though I don't doubt that much of the population would understand," Chomsky said.
"McCain isn't being mocked, he's being questioned..."
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