McCain again questions Obama's faith in America

McCain keeps trying to maintain a distinction between questioning Obama's patriotism and questioning his judgment, but when he repeatedly does so in ways that suggest Obama doesn't think much of his country, it starts seeming like a distinction without a difference. A key question is whether pundits and journalists will continue to suggest that the tough tactics don't represent McCain (as they did when the negative ads started rolling out about a month ago) and start holding him accountable for his ads, his surrogates, and his own statements.

clipped from voices.washingtonpost.com Sen. John McCain questioned his Democratic rival's belief in American leadership Tuesday, accusing Sen. Barack Obama of demonstrating confusion about the country's moral standing around the world. "The Cold War ended not because the world stood 'as one,' but because the great democracies came together, bound together by sustained and decisive American leadership," McCain said to members of the American Legion at their 90th annual national convention here. McCain said Obama has failed to challenge world criticism which sows doubts about America's greatness, and he ridiculed the Democrat's call for "a world that stands as one" in his Berlin speech last month. "The 'confusion' here is between John McCain rhetoric that no one's love of country should be questioned and the reality of his campaign's daily, false, personal and detestable attacks on Senator Obama," spokesman Hari Sevugan said