McCain's jealousy isn't attractive in a senator, let alone a president

by: Kathy

Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM EDT

CNN's Jack Cafferty psychoanalyzes John McCain's problem with Barack Obama:

CAFFERTY: I'd be willing to make you a bet. If you added up all of the people who have attended every political event John McCain has held since the campaign started, the number would not get to 200,000, which is the number of people that watched Barack Obama speak in Berlin.

That ad that he put out is nothing more than the same jealousy he displayed last week when Obama was on this tour.

McCain went to Canada, Mexico and Colombia. And the only thing I remember about any of those three trips or visits was some hostages got released one day while he was in Colombia. It had nothing to do with McCain being there.

So, you know, Obama is getting a lot of attention and McCain doesn't like it. It's jealousy

But at the beginning of the campaign he said -- this is the guy who rides around on something called the Straight Talk Express -- this will not be that kind of a campaign. We're going to keep it on the high road. We're going to talk about the issues. And he's come out with one snarky, low rent piece of television after another.

Now, that being said, McCain's running on short money.

So how do you compensate?

You put out these goofy commercials with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in them and then people like us run them over and over and over again for free.

McCain might find himself running even shorter on money. It turns out he's offended the Hilton family, generous donors to Republican candidates, and the Blackstone Group, the private equity group that bought into Hilton Hotels last year and have also been generous Republican donors. The ad didn't sit well with Peter G. Peterson, Blackstone's chairman who gave $30,800 to McCain this year, so he called the campaign and had a few choice words for them.

Heh, that's what happens when you let your temper get the best of you. McCain could have taken the high road, instead he chose to go with the low-road express. It's pretty obvious McCain isn't the right person to restore the befouled image of the presidency.