Just to offer some further thoughts on Tim’s post about the Washington Post’s profile of McCain today, I couldn’t help but notice this little line, with its implied comparison to his opponent:
McCain is a figure from an old-fashioned America that is out of fashion in our most cosmopolitan precincts — the America of “Gunsmoke” and Gary Cooper, not “The Daily Show” and George Clooney.
Get that America? Your choice is between a stoic, badass cowboy and a hollywood celebrity. Who you gonna pick, huh?
Also interesting is the fact that we learn McCain is so in tune with senior aide Mark Salter that the two are practically telepathic, that their relationship is a “mind meld”, when only yesterday the Post told us that McCain was an honorable man whose recent behavior could be explained by the fact that his impeccable honesty was being stifled by advisers who just don’t understand how McCain rolls.
–A.Serwer
