“I think Senator McCain’s absolutely right that we need more responsibility…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right that the earmarks process has been abused…”
“He’s also right that oftentimes lobbyists and special interests are the ones that are introducing these…requests…”
“John mentioned the fact that business taxes on paper are high in this country, and he’s absolutely right…”
“John is right we have to make cuts…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right that the violence has been reduced as a consequence of the extraordinary sacrifice of our troops and our military families…”
“John — you’re absolutely right that presidents have to be prudent in what they say…”
“Senator McCain is absolutely right, we cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran…”
Which of those assertions should Obama have disagreed with? None. Even where McCain was basically imprecise (the business tax one for example) why form your statement like this: "McCain is wrong when he says the sun goes down at the end of the day, what's actually happening is the Earth is rotating." Nobody likes that guy.
McCain lost lots of credibility with his "what Se. Obama doesn't understand..." followed by a bunch of stuff that Obama clearly does understand, even if McCain understands it better. And as I said, since I disagree with some of McCain's basic conclusion (might always makes right) I wonder what McCain is doing with all that supposed understanding.
What brought me back to this point is that
1. McCain seems to be making a campaign commercial about how Obama agreed with statements of the perfectly obvious. As in "Vote for me, John McCain, master of the nearly obvious"
2. My grandfather used to say (according to my mom) that agreeing with someone is a good way to take away their best arguments.
We'll see.
