after a moment of honesty, Eagleburger returns to his repug nature

Eagleburger Tries To Make Up For His Criticisms Of Palin By Hurling Insults At Obama»

Asked whether Sarah Palin is ready to assume the reins in a time of national crisis, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger — a McCain supporter — candidly told NPR on Thursday “of course not.” “I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested,” he added.

The next day, after realizing the damage he had done to the McCain campaign, Eagleburger tried to step back from his comments. Appearing on Fox News, he explained, “I made a serious mistake yesterday,” he said. “I wasn’t thinking when I said it. … I was just plain stupid, and if I have given the flim flam artist Barack Obama some success with this, I am deeply apologetic. I did not intend it.”

Appearing again on Fox News this morning, Eagleburger tried desperately to make up for the problems he has caused for the McCain campaign by lobbing hyperbolic accusations at Obama:

“He came up out of the Chicago mob.” […]

“If he wins, there’s even a little bit of an indication of Senator McCarthy in the sense that, the media he doesn’t like or that have not endorsed him, he kicks off the plane.”

The New York Times reports this morning that Fox News has tried hard to bury Eagleburger’s criticisms of Palin:

After NPR reported late last week that a McCain supporter, former Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, questioned whether Ms. Palin was “prepared to take the reins of the presidency,” MSNBC repeated it roughly 20 times over the course of the day, CNN mentioned it four times, a review of programming on the monitoring service ShadowTV found. And Fox News Channel did one segment, in which it interviewed Mr. Eagleburger, who apologized and said Ms. Palin was “a quick study.”

True to form, the “fair and balanced” Fox and Friends did not make reference to Eagleburger’s previous comments about Palin, nor did they ask a single question about her.

(Think Progress)
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This is sadly pathetic - a bit of common sense honesty and then he turns to bizarre, extremist rhetoric that doesn't even make any sense...