McCain is the Incredible Two-Faced Man, A Puppet of the Republican Spinmasters

John McCain has become the Incredible Two-Faced Man. The former Straight Talk Express is now the Flip Flop Special. Witness his "evolving" positions on a wide range of issues, from off-shore drilling to the "fundamentals" of the economy to last week's differing opinions each day on the Wall Street debacle he helped create.

He went every which way on that one and probably will have a different take today. On the other side, Barack Obama has consistently called for more supervision of the Wall Street and housing greed-based juggernaut that has run this nation into the financial wilderness.

Back in 2000 a lot of us were pulling for McCain as he really was a maverick then, fighting Bush in the primaries, and being derailed by the lies of the Karl Rove led campaign. In the infamous South Carolina primary, the Bush forces, never known to let the boundaries of propriety stop them from telling lies, started a massive "whisper" campaign, literally stealing the election with lies. For the full story see "What Bush Did to McCain":
http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?forum=8&topic_id=522&az=show_topic

and this article in the Nation: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080128/banks

as well as this encyclopedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_campaign

Suffice it to say that it was a terrible smear campaign, using racism, and totally below the belt, as Bush-Rove campaigns are. Among the rumors circulated against McCain in 2000 in South Carolina was that his adopted Bangladeshi daughter was actually black, that McCain was both gay and cheated on his wife, and that his wife Cindy was a drug addict.

McCain was badly hurt by those buzzards, but in his ambition, he decided to support Bush (by his own words, more than 90 per cent of the time), he got on board with the Bushians, and for the greater part, he sold out. I guess the old adage "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" applied to McCain, because he embraced Bush. He went from maverick to foot soldier for Bush-Cheney. Now his campaign is run by Bush operatives and confidants, using the Rovian political game plan.

The Republican mantra is not really "Drill, Baby, Drill." It is "Spin, Baby, Spin." And McCain has become the puppet of the spin masters. It is a sad thing to see.