The McCain campaign mocks Gordon Brown

The news that Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind Barack Obama has raced round the internets. If truth be told, Brown hasn’t endorsed Obama or done anything like that. Rather, a clumsily written article has implied that he has by singling out Obama for praise and not mentioning McCain.

The McCain campaign’s response to these reports is scathing. In a post on the McCain report entitled “The Coveted Gordon Brown Endorsement” it points out that Obama no longer advocates the policy that Brown praised him for.

Now, really this is a storm in a tea-cup. But it is hard to imagine the Bush or Kerry campaigns sending up Tony Blair like this or making this kind of sarcastic comment about him, “Far be it from this campaign to underestimate the value of an endorsement from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown”. A perceived endorsement from Blair would have been a boon to either candidate in 2004.