Perdeu as eleições com elevação e dignidade para Barack Obama (e com mais de 46% dos votos, muito acima do que qualquer outro nomeado republicano teria em tais circunstâncias, tamanha era a herança de Bush). Chamaram-lhe velho e acabado, mas ele continua activo no Senado, para onde vai recandidatar-se a novo mandato.
John Sidney McCain, 72 anos, velho leão da política, é um caso à parte num GOP em total desorientação, que não consegue livrar-se de velhos fantasmas de corpo presente, como Dick Cheney. Jeffrey Goldberg, em post publicado no seu blogue alojado à revista The Atlantic, conta uma bela história que comprova isto mesmo. Com o humor refinado de John à mistura, sobre como Cheney apoiaria a... inquisição espanhola em matéria de tortura.
«I stopped by to see John McCain this afternoon in his Senate office. I haven't seen him for several months, and was glad to see that he seemed rested and ready, if not tan. He was in high spirits, and we talked for a while about the Obama Administration's embrace of realpolitik, Pakistan, Iran, the whole nine yards. But first I asked him about Dick Cheney and his defense of Bush Administration torture policies. He told me of his fundamental disagreement with Cheney: "When you have a majority of Americans, seventy-something percent, saying we shouldn't torture, then I'm not sure it helps for the Vice President to go out and continue to espouse that position," he said. "But look, he's free to talk. He's a former Vice President of the United States. I just don't see where it helps."
And then he got acerbic: Cheney, he says, "believes that waterboarding doesn't fall under the Geneva Conventions and that it's not a form of torture. But you know, it goes back to the Spanish Inquisition."
I'll post more of what McCain said -- including his critique of Obama's speech -- tomorrow.»
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