Is John McCain Bush’s Poodle?

John McCain is a much better man than the low-road campaign he pursues when the worst president in history, George W. Bush, launches a low-road attack on Barack Obama from abroad and John McCain is reduced to saying: Me too.

If Tony Blair was called Bush’s poodle, John McCain now aspires to that mantle by giving total support when George Bush does what no other president has ever done, attack a domestic opponent while abroad.

McCain cannot have it both ways, giving a speech claiming he will work with Democrats, then within minutes parroting Bush’s low-road attack. McCain apparently forgot his own position about talking to Hamas, which Obama does not support, putting Obama to the right of McCain on Hamas, while Bush and McCain slander Obama with the latest cheap shot.

Want an indefinite commitment in Iraq? Bush and McCain are your men. Oppose stronger assistance to veterans? Bush and McCain are your team. Want tax cuts to the wealthy while not giving strong support to vets? The Bush-McCain pair is for you.

Do you believe in government by laissez-faire that does little when Americans are being foreclosed upon? Then Bush and McCain point the way together.

Should America engage in torture? McCain used to disagree, but now joins the Bush team with one of the worst flip-flops of his career in a shameful and outrageous vote.

But above all, what has earned McCain the right to the mantle of Bush’s poodle is this:

Bush twists, distorts and misrepresents history and is the only president in our history to make low-road attacks on a political opponent while abroad. Reagan didn’t do it; Ford didn’t do it; George H.W. Bush didn’t do it; Roosevelt and Truman didn’t do it. Jack Kennedy didn’t do it and even Richard Milhous Nixon never did this in his darkest days.

Bush did it, and John McCain was reduced to joining Bush on the low road to demeaning our politics, our democracy and the presidency.

John McCain should have known better, but when George Bush initiated one of the lowest moments of a low road presidency, John McCain could only say, “Me too,” which makes him a serious contender for the title of Bush’s poodle.

Barack Obama stands tall and presidential leading an army of Democrats firing back, while John McCain looks like another small Bush Republican in an age when America wants nothing more than Bush Republicanism to fade into the dustbin of history.