Will McCain get the Obama treatment?

Obama got blasted for saying lives lost in Iraq were "wasted". Will McCain?

Here's McCain on Letterman:

Here's one representative example of Obama's coverage on the issue:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17131803/

Updated: 10:45 a.m. CT Feb 13, 2007

Ron Fournier
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Stumbling out of the gate, Sen. Barack Obama said in his first presidential campaign news conference that the lives of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq were “wasted.” He quickly retracted the statement, and later apologized to anybody he offended.

 

Well, Obama shouldn't have gotten ripped. And I don't know how widespread the ripping was -- not taking a side, I honestly don't know.

Doesn't seem a rip-worthy thing, regardless of who's saying it.

 

He never should have apologized.

It's purely the painful reality of it all.

 

No.
Next question.

 

McCain will be treated by the press as an experienced candidate with a long resume and will be held to that higher standard.

 

Unless you're running against Fredo in a primary (2000) . . .

. . . or unless you're running against Fredo in a general presidential election (2004) . . .

. . . or unless you're making a joke about the president that is intentionally misinterpreted to be a shot at the troops (2006) . . .

. . . or unless your name happens to be Murtha or Cleland or anybody else who would dare disagree with the Idiot In Chief.

 

I repeat.
No.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/03/fussillade_of_s.php

Next question.

 

Perhaps . . . although that standard didn't seem to exist in 2004, did it?

And there are more war heroes in Congress (Hagel, Murtha, Webb, etc.) who want us to get out than there are who agree with McCain.

Do their opinions not carry as much weight as McCain's just because they aren't running for president?

 

McCain Wins SC Straw Poll; HRC at HRC
Some presidential tidbits:

1. Sen. John McCain was the surprise winner of last night's Spartanburg, SC straw poll, eclipsing ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani for the lead today. Some McCain opponents grumbled that McCain suddenly "found" 50 votes, but we don't think Spartanburg GOP chair Rick Beltram -- not a particularly huge McCain fan -- would have certified the results if he'd been suspicious about fraud. The results:

McCain 164 Rudy 162 Hunter 158 Brownback 85 Romney 80 Huckabee 21
2. As we reported below, McCain picked up the support of noted GOP strategist Charlie Black. It's a major Beltway get.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/03/mccain_wins_sc.html

 

As Spartanburg goes, so goes the free world. :

 

So South Carolinians have come to accept that McCain has a black baby.

 

Can you provide some kind of documentation on that because I have never heard that before?