Editor’s note: WARNING!!! This is not just a little tongue & cheek…it is A LOT of cheek!!! While the news events described did occur…Tanya Acker took little creative liberty with the dialogue…
Tanya Acker
Attorney, political analyst and Obama supporter
John McCain must be very depressed. What do people in the public service live for, except a little attention from those they “serve”? (Oh, and the chance to “serve” in the first instance, of course. Silly me).
In any event, he can’t get a second look from the press if he tried.
Case in point: during a Middle East tour, he makes the claim that al Qaeda, a Sunni terrorist group, is getting funding from Shiite Iran. (Just a little footnote here – Sunnis and Shiites don’t get along so well, see… e.g., the current civil war in Iraq). Hearing the stumble and eager to get things back on track, Joe Lieberman whispers a correction in his ear.
(Thank God for that trusty old Joe.)
“Oops,” the senator says, acknowledging his mistake. “Of course I didn’t mean that . . .”
Or did he? Remember, this is John “master of foreign policy” McCain, he who knows all about all things off-shore. Might this slip-up have been a ploy to direct some attention in this frenetic election season back to himself? A desperate cry for help (or at least news coverage) from the media masters? A passionate plea: “pay attention to me! Enough of the lady and the black guy!”
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