The Company You Keep

I'm with Eschaton on this one. I don't understand why so many people think John McCain is OK. After he sold his soul to the Bush devil during the last election, he's off my Christmas list (and voter list too).

In this article, Mccain To Visit Alabama To Endorse Wallace, it is noted that "Arizona Senator John McCain will visit three Alabama cities on Monday to endorse Republican George Wallace Jr. for lieutenant governor." The Wallace referred to here is son of the infamous George Wallace.

"Calling Wallace a 'committed conservative reformer,' McCain plans fund-raising appearances with Wallace."

I realize that the sins of the father do not necessarily belong to the son, but in this case the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the "younger Wallace, whose official resumé boasts of an NAACP Freedom Award, opened up the first day of the annual national convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a group whose Web site has referred to blacks as 'a retrograde species of humanity.'"

"The CCC was created from the mailing lists of the old White Citizens Councils, which were set up in the 1950s and 1960s to resist efforts to desegregate Southern schools, and which Thurgood Marshall once described as "the uptown Klan." Recently, it has embraced Holocaust deniers and published anti-Semitic articles on its Web site."

Can't help thinking, Oh Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye.