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JustJess,
It's not shady, it's just rude.
This letter is a Senator's version of calling the other person a liar and a fatmouth.
@Toaster
How do you interpret the following sentence?
"But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness. Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us."
In this sentence alone,
1. McCain implies Obama is only interested in exploiting a political issue
2. insults Obama over his junior status in the senate (twice)
3. accuses Obama of being deceitful in his claims that he wanted to work toward a bi-partisan agreement
4. concludes Obama is not interested in preserving the public interest
Interestingly enough, McCain is upset because he claims Obama is playing politics. McCain has built his reputation on the fact that he doesn't play politics himself. Yet, this publicly published letter about a private disagreement is playing politics--so it comes across to a number of us as hypocritical.
If anyone has an understanding of this letter as anything other than McCain lamenting that he tried acting like a non-partisan, but Obama just coudn't stop acting like a Democrat despite saying he would, I'd like to hear that alternative way of interpreting this letter.
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