McCain: Pulling A Hypocritical "Lie And Cry" Yet Again

Incompetents are predictable, thanks to the Eight Principles which govern them. Take for instance the 4th Principle:

Fourth Principle: Incompetence does or says anything to defend itself.

Because of the previous four principles, incompetents never take responsibility for their wrongdoings, or those of other incompetents within their "circle". To whit: incompetents will do and say anything to defend themselves and other incompetents, including disassembling, obfuscating, lying and blaming others. For incompetents, everything is about spin and truthiness - never about facts and truth. Even when they are blatantly caught, incompetents continue to react and reason with their intellectual sloth-driven infantile/adolescent immaturity - they will deny that they did anything wrong or that they have lied, then they will blame/attack (read: character assassinate) their "accusers". I call this: "Lie and Cry".

So, McCain and Palin have awaken the ugly beast of hate, whipping it up to a frenzy, and directing it against Barack Obama.

Well, a prominent congressman and U.S. civil rights icon, John Lewis, called McCain on his criminal behavior while giving him a much deserved slap in the face:

Democratic lawmaker John Lewis on Saturday said Republican White House contender John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin were "sowing the seeds of hatred and division" with incendiary rhetoric against rival Barack Obama.

"As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Senator McCain and (Alaska) Governor Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all," Lewis said in a statement on Politico.com a day after McCain tried to tone down his campaign's attacks against his rival.

Lewis, a US civil rights icon, said the Republicans "are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse."

He suggested the attacks on Obama were reminiscent of the late segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace, whose fiery rhetoric in 1963 was blamed for a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four little girls.

"What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history," Lewis said.

"George Wallace never threw a bomb, he never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.

"Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama."

This is rather restrained, considering my own opinion of McCain-Palin and their dangerous smear campaign against Obama:

The current smearing "strategy" of the McCain-Palin campaign is, simply put, criminal.

(...) And this is the consequence of allowing dangerous incompetents like McCain-Palin do what they are currently doing, of remaining largely silent (cowarly or approvingly) in loudly decrying and denouncing their current strategy: it has now become almost inevitable that the Sixth Principle of Incompetence will be enacted by someone, somewhere, somehow.

On that fateful and tragic day, should it ever come (and I still hope that such never happens), John McCain, Sarah Palin and the rest of their campaign staff will have to be indicted for conspiracy to incite murder.

Period.

And if I could, I would then be the first to slap the cuffs on and throw their collective criminal asses in jail to rot for a long, long time.

John McCain and Sarah Palin: you have been put on notice to cease and desist - I strongly suggest that you heed such notice, if only to spare your pathetic, selfish, greedy and immoral persons from suffering the consequences of your dangerous incompetence.

Now, granted - McCain has backtracked somewhat from this odious tactic, although the McCain-Palin campaign surrogates continue to press on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, et al. that past associations between Obama and "terrorists" remains an "issue".

No surprise then, that the awaken, frenzied beast of hate refuses so far to listen to McCain's empty platitudes to placate it back to sleep (more recent examples here, here and here).

In any case, what was McCain's reaction to the deserved remontrances from Lewis? I'll give you one guess:

The Arizona senator said Lewis statement "represent a character attack against Governor Sarah Palin and me that is shocking and beyond the pale."

He said Lewis' comparison between criticism of Obama's record and Wallace's segregationist policies "unacceptable and has no place in this campaign."

He also said this:

"I call on Senator Obama to immediately and personally repudiate these outrageous and divisive comments that are so clearly designed to shut down debate 24 days before the election. Our country must return to the important debate about the path forward for America."

Think about this response in light of what McCain-Palin have been doing in the last weeks.

Beyond the pale.

Unacceptable and has no place in this campaign.

Our country must return to the important debate about the path forward for America.

In other words: McCain is doing yet again a "Lie and Cry", like the genuine incompetent that he is.

Such hypocrisy and mendacity on McCain's part would be laughable, if it were not so criminally dangerous in consequences.

And as a further evidence in demonstrating McCain's guilt in inciting murder ...

Hence I reiterate:

You are far too little, too late, John McCain.

In between, your vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin continues forth with the smear attacks to demonize Barack Obama, whipping even more the fear, resentment and rage among your McCain-Palin "base", if not of many other Americans as well.

She goes on prodding the beast while you only now begin to placate it with platitudes.

Far too little to late. Or far too little and not enough.

You, and Sarah Palin and the rest of your inner cricle, have acted criminally in order to incite murder. Whether consciously and willfully or not.

You need to do much, much, much more, John McCain, to put the ugly, raging beast back to its slumber.

Have you the courage? Have you the competence?

I think not.

Unfortunately and tragically enough.

And I would add: your "Lie and Cry" act, John McCain, only further supports my contention that you lack the courage, the competence, the honor, to not only acknowledge your wrongdoing in this matter but furthermore to drop out of the race.

You, sir, have indeed served your country most courageously and honorably in a wrongful war.

But you, sir, have been dishonoring your country in the last two weeks or so.

You, sir, have been putting blind ambition above your country.

"Country First".

What a pathetic, killing joke you are, sir.

(P.S. It goes without saying that the ridiculous and pathetic reaction of the McCain-Palin campaign to the report on Troopergate likewise constitutes "Lie and Cry". What is that 7th Principle of Incompetence again? Ah, yes: incompetence is consistent with itself.)


(Cross-posted at TWWL)