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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!As a follow-up to the earlier stories from DK and me. From the McCain campaign blog: The only similarity between the two stories is a cross in the dirt, but it is hardly an unlikely coincidence that there were practicing Christians in both Russia and Vietnam, or that in the prisons of those two Communist countries the only crosses to be found were etched in the dirt, as easily disappeared as the Christians who drew them. But those desperate to discredit Senator McCain's record will have to impugn his fellow prisoners as well. Orson Swindle, who was held as a prisoner of war along with ...
I'm aware that the left side of the blogosphere and punditocracy is extremely partisan, but the brazenness of this still shocks me sometimes. This weekend is a good case in point. What do you call it when you cast aspersions on the Vietnam experience of a presidential candidate? Oh yes, swiftboating. Only Andrew Sullivan did not have any first hand testimony when he went up against McCain's cross in the sand testimony, only a gut instinct that it smelled fishy. And that was enough for the left blogosphere (and check the links at memeorandum) to jump all over the story claiming, in essence, ...
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