Drew's view

[Anonymous]

Here are the beginning and end of a serious article by a veteran newswoman, Elizabeth Drew, giving her verdict on John McCain:

I have been a longtime admirer of John McCain. During the 2000 Republican presidential primaries I publicly defended McCain against the pro-Bush Republicans’ whisper campaign that he was too unstable to be president (aware though I was that he had a temper). Two years later I published a positive book about him, “Citizen McCain.”
(snip)
McCain’s recent conduct of his campaign – his willingness to lie repeatedly (including in his acceptance speech) and to play Russian roulette with the vice-presidency, in order to fulfill his long-held ambition – has reinforced my earlier, and growing, sense that John McCain is not a principled man.
In fact, it’s not clear who he is.

For the full article: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13541.html

[Anonymous]

Big deal - it is just another media person (with an opinion) endorsing Obama - what a big surprise.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Big deal - it is just another media person (with an opinion) endorsing Obama - what a big surprise.

"Just another media person"?

Drew is the author of "Citizen McCain" which the National Review described as a "hagiography" and reviewed saying "She fawns over her subject, making it seem as though he is the first politician ever to use humor to put people at ease".

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_10_54/ai_86056689

Clearly, Drew is not your run of the mill journalist vis-a-vis McCain.

[Anonymous]

It's about the same as if Oprah came out and endorsed McCain.

[Anonymous]

thanks for posting, I'm going to share with my republican friends

[Anonymous]

Any supposed journalist that thinks McCain is not a principled man is daft at best. This person, however, is clearly a Lib hack, I don't care what she has written