It looks obvious

Friendship between politicians is something that it is hard for me to envision. Take for example the famous long friendship between John McCain and John Kerry. Despite their difference political views, their party affiliation and the political needs they managed to maintain their friendship. Obviously most observers will remember how John Kerry considered McCain as his running mate in 2004. But I was more impressed by McCain standing by Kerry and condemning the “Swift Boat” attacks.

And now it is John Kerry’s to return a favor for his old friend. I guess calling your close friend a senile and out of touch in national TV will do:

“He confuses who Iran is training, he confuses what the makeup of Al Qaedais, he confuses the history going back to 682 of what has happened to Sunni and Shia,” Kerry said.

With friends like these who needs enemies?

As a side note I have to add that despite the fact that I disagree with McCain’s position on Iraq I found the criticism, in this case, unjustified. I heard the full quote and McCain’s argument is perfectly valid and consistent with what he said in the past. I understand that in political campaign it is very effective to attack the sound-bite, but in this case we have so much real issues to debate that I wish they wouldn’t refer to this kind of stupidity.

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