28 Hours
That's how long it took John McCain to respond to the seven-count indictment against Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), one of McCain's favorite GOP punching bags on pork-barrel spending. Even then, McCain's response came through campaign spokeswoman Nicole Wallace:
"Like every American, Senator Stevens is entitled to a presumption of innocence. Senator McCain and Senator Stevens have clashed famously over the appropriations process, which Senator McCain views as broken and subject to the type of corruption that has caused voters to lose faith with Washington, and as Senator McCain mentions on the campaign trail nearly daily, has resulted in former members of congress residing in prison. Senator McCain has fought loudly and often alone against corruption and wasteful spending, and this is a sad reminder that the next president will have his work cut out for him in rebuilding public trust by ending once and for all pork barrel spending and by reforming the federal government from top to bottom."
Step 1) He's not necessarily guilty.
Step 2) But remember that he and I fought, and its not my fault!
And it took Obama how long to leave the church of an America-hating pastor who thinks we deserved 9/11? 2 decades?
McCain was never friends with Stevens and the man hasn't even been arraigned yet. They were very much enemies -- Stevens loves earmarks, McCain despises them.
McCain pays lipservice to despising them. How has he actually reduced them?