Posted on 09/22/2008 10:55:36 PM PDT by Checkers
"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around." -- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
WASHINGTON -- Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.
Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked The Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does."
To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust."
Perhaps an old antagonism is involved in McCain's fact-free slander. His most conspicuous economic adviser is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who previously headed the Congressional Budget Office. There he was an impediment to conservatives, including then-Congressman Cox, who as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee persistently tried and generally failed to enlist CBO support for "dynamic scoring" that would estimate the economic growth effects of proposed tax cuts.
In any case, McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people. McCain's Manichean worldview drove him to
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I’d still prefer McCain to Obama the communist stealth candidate.
Read the whole thing.
Time to ping all ping lists.
Thank you in advance.
Why do I feel like we’re in a circle directing fire at ourselves rather than the enemy who is approaching in all directions from our backs? Concentrate on who poses the greatest threat to the Republic and don’t expose our candidate’s weakness any more than it is. Haven’t seen any Obama supporters expose in the press his myriad weaknesses.
“Why do I feel like we’re in a circle directing fire at ourselves rather than the enemy who is approaching in all directions from our backs? Concentrate on who poses the greatest threat to the Republic and don’t expose our candidate’s weakness any more than it is.”
You’re making the assumption that McCain is preferable to Obama and the inevitable backlash to follow....
Will’s conclusion sets up a false dichotomy. The implication is that one candidate has the experience but not the temperament, while the other lacks the experience but not the temperament.
Obama lacks the experience, he lacks the temperament, and he lacks the character to be president.
George Will is being very slick in his rhetoric here, and I’m not buying it.
Nice to know you support Obama! Can we thank you when socialism comes to this Country via Obama? You certainly cannot be a conservative and give aid and comfort to the enemy who happens to be the Marxist Obama.
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“Sometimes George Will just needs to drink a huge cup of STFU.
Yes, Chris Cox is a good conservative, but like it or not, McCain was right. Cox was captain of the ship when the carrier ran aground.”
The SEC Comissioner is the Captain of a carrier?
Sorry, but replacing Cox with Cuomo...that’s where I get off the boat.
“Obama lacks the experience, he lacks the temperament, and he lacks the character to be president.”
Obama has kept his cool under pressure during all this market madness.
McCain? Not so much.
I've always had my reservations about George Will.
Nobody understands what's happening on Wall street, least of all the media, who keep pressuring the main players into "instant solutions." The ignorant leading the inept.
What is my favorite ever line about "economists"? You know, the ones who are supposed to understand this stuff?
"Ask a hundred economists a question, and they all will point in different directions..."
It's not a science, stupid!
Now would be a good time for a smart news channel to corral the one person I have not heard from (but wish I could): Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan: The impact of the Highly Improbable.
(Check out the definition of a "Black Swan")
Yep, he voted present.
I don't think so!
“Nice to know you support Obama! Can we thank you when socialism comes to this Country via Obama? You certainly cannot be a conservative and give aid and comfort to the enemy who happens to be the Marxist Obama.”
What policy are you worried about getting under Obama that you won’t get under McCain?
What?
Embrace your Messiah Hussein?
I just don't see that happening.
But thank you for trying.
As a matter of fact --- yes, I am.
McCain might not have been my first choice, but, now, the issue is settled for me. Anyone who opposes McCain at this point should be back in DU --- preaching to his original choir.
“Sorry, but replacing Cox with Cuomo...that’s where I get off the boat.”
Excuse me, but you were never “on the boat” to begin with. You said “John McCain can go to hell” back in January.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961844/posts?page=1#1
Indeed, that is my assumption. And though I think McCain/Palin have answers that sometimes are too simplistic and/or populist, the other side sends multiple chills up my spine. No matter my disagreements with McCain, I won't be a party in bringing this country to its knees with the radical left-wing socialism/Marxism proposed by Obama and the Democrats.
“Obama has kept his cool under pressure during all this market madness.”
Nice shilling for Obama there. When this mess first hit, McCain tried to play it cool by saying fundamentals were strong, and Obama’s response was to toss gasoline on the fire and say everything was going to hell and to PANIC. The market responded accordingly.
Reading the article, it sounds like George may be leaning toward voting for Obama. That says it all to me.
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