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Leaving behing John McCain's horrible, no good, very bad week in which he:

• Stopped complaining that Obama never left the country, and started complaining that Obama left the country
  
• Messed up Geography 101, by opening up a border between Iraq and Pakistan
  
• Stopped bragging about how much the press loved him to complain that the press doesn't love him
  
• Messed up Current Events 101 by delaying the Anbar Awakening by some six months
  
• Bragged how courageous he was by saying Obama wants America to lose -- a comment so weak as to offend Joe Klein

...today is a new day. Politics has a short memory, and things can always turn around. Yay! So this morning his campaign felt they finally found an Obama gaffe in Israel to exploit. Flagged by Politico, here it is:

Obama on Genocide

Obama today at Yad Vashem:

"Let our children come here and know this history so they can add their voices to proclaim `never again.' And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims but also as individuals who hoped and loved and dreamed like us and who have become symbols of the human spirit."

Obama on July 20, 2007:

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.

"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now -- where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife -- which we haven't done," Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Yes. The McCain campaign ripped Obama for his comments at the Israeli HOLOCAUST MUSEUM. Let that sink in. They're rapping him for not being strong enough against GENOCIDE.

In order for this to be true, you have to read Obama's comments with a ridiculous amount of misanthropy, while ignoring what the comment really is -- an indictment of the situational use of "human rights" by Pro-War conservatives. You also have to ignore the fact that the ethnic cleansing of the Iraq Civil War occurred BECAUSE we went in there in the first place, BECAUSE we had no plan for the 'peace', and went on and on DESPITE our being there for all these years -- including during the Blessed Surge, Hallowed Be Thy Name.

But to rip someone at a Holocaust Museum.... that's like... I don't know, ripping someone at a Holocaust Museum. There's no metaphore for it, it's so rich with chutpah it's its own metaphore.

But, don't worry. There's more. Lest they fear their earlier whines that Nobubby Wuvs McCain get forgotten, they issued new luggage tags to the press corps. Also flagged by Politico:

Front:

Back:

I'm sorry, which is the JV Squad -- the McCain media, or the McCain campaign? I haven't seen photoshopping this poor outside of a Jr. High since... well, they didn't have photoshop when I was in Jr. High. Still would have turned out better I think -- use of the "watercolor" filter notwithstanding. Not to deconstruct too much, but now, instead of complaining that the media is ignoring them, they're saying to the reporters WHO ARE COVERING THEM, "you guys are the JV Squad."

Okay, insult those who are doing what you are asking them to do is consistant -- after all, isn't that what they're doing by whining about Obama taking the foreign trip they mocked him for not taking? But you can take the insanity further on the back -- which doesn't even make sense. If they're covering the US, why the dig on France? And doesn't the GOP like France again now that Sarkozy is in charge? Is this gaying of the French guy with his pink scarf supposed to make the media gay? Or the French? Or Obama, somehow?

Does the McCain campaign even want McCain to be President?

But the thing that blows my mind -- truly -- is the waving White Flag of Surrender on the back. It's one thing to make the argument that the French surrendered too quickly in WWII. It's lame, but whatever. But a joke about a country that suffered greatly under the Nazis -- a country that suffered GENOCIDE under the Nazis... THE SAME DAY you're jumping on Obama for not being Anti-Genocide enough.... THE SAME DAY you're staining the very apolitical sacred nature of not just the Israeli Holocaust museum, but the Holocaust itself? THE VERY SAME DAY you do all that, you make a Nazi joke?

A Nazi joke?

Really McCain? Really? Is this how classy this campaign is going to be, this early?

Wow.

No words. Should have sent a poet. A JV Poet.