Posted on 09/26/2008 8:20:04 AM PDT by TSchmereL
I’m in Alaska listening on WLS Chicago
http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=152352
about a 3 minute delay on the program
MEANWHILE, I just got this pathetic Email from a KOS’r, asking me to help make it “Viral”
McCain’s erratic nature has been front and center this week. All the while, Obama has remained calm, cool and collected.
Salon Columnist Glenn Greenwald summarizes McCain’s behavior:
In less than 48 hours, McCain went from “I’m far too patriotic to debate unless there is a deal that is done — there’s no deal until there’s a deal” to “I’m going to debate even though there’s no deal.” Is there any way to describe that other than, as Spencer Ackerman put it, a “humiliating failure”? The New York Times’s Patrick Healy today inanely ponders whether “In a Time of Crisis, Is Obama Too Cool?” (Didn’t Rudy Giuliani become the Greatest Man Ever in History because of his post-9/11 coolness?) But surely excessive stoicism is vastly preferable to the sort of unstable, flailing panic that McCain has exhibited this week, where he issues a definitive, emphatic pledge which, less than 2 days later, is completely abandoned with little real explanation.
Meanwhile, Obama has been a steady Eddie.
High-ranking U.S. military officials have weighed in on the importance of the next Commander-in-Chief exhibiting such calm:
“I like McCain. I respect McCain. But I am a little worried by his knee-jerk response factor,” said retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004 and is now campaigning for Clinton. “I think it is a little scary. I think this guy’s first reactions are not necessarily the best reactions. I believe that he acts on impulse.”
“One of the things the senior military would like to see when they go visit the president is a kind of consistency, a kind of reliability,” explained retired Gen. Merrill McPeak, a former Republican, former chief of staff of the Air Force and former fighter pilot who flew 285 combat missions.
McPeak said his perception is that Obama is “not that up when he is up and not that down when he is down. He is kind of a steady Eddie. This is a very important feature,” McPeak said. On the other hand, he said, “McCain has got a reputation for being a little volatile.”
Retired Rear Adm. John Hutson, who has been a Republican his entire adult life, but who now supports Obama, put it this way about facing a national security crisis: “When everybody else goes nuts, the president of the United States needs to get cooler and cooler.”
MEANWHILE, I just got this pathetic Email from a KOS’r, asking me to help make it “Viral”
McCain’s erratic nature has been front and center this week. All the while, Obama has remained calm, cool and collected.
Salon Columnist Glenn Greenwald summarizes McCain’s behavior:
In less than 48 hours, McCain went from “I’m far too patriotic to debate unless there is a deal that is done — there’s no deal until there’s a deal” to “I’m going to debate even though there’s no deal.” Is there any way to describe that other than, as Spencer Ackerman put it, a “humiliating failure”? The New York Times’s Patrick Healy today inanely ponders whether “In a Time of Crisis, Is Obama Too Cool?” (Didn’t Rudy Giuliani become the Greatest Man Ever in History because of his post-9/11 coolness?) But surely excessive stoicism is vastly preferable to the sort of unstable, flailing panic that McCain has exhibited this week, where he issues a definitive, emphatic pledge which, less than 2 days later, is completely abandoned with little real explanation.
Meanwhile, Obama has been a steady Eddie.
High-ranking U.S. military officials have weighed in on the importance of the next Commander-in-Chief exhibiting such calm:
“I like McCain. I respect McCain. But I am a little worried by his knee-jerk response factor,” said retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004 and is now campaigning for Clinton. “I think it is a little scary. I think this guy’s first reactions are not necessarily the best reactions. I believe that he acts on impulse.”
“One of the things the senior military would like to see when they go visit the president is a kind of consistency, a kind of reliability,” explained retired Gen. Merrill McPeak, a former Republican, former chief of staff of the Air Force and former fighter pilot who flew 285 combat missions.
McPeak said his perception is that Obama is “not that up when he is up and not that down when he is down. He is kind of a steady Eddie. This is a very important feature,” McPeak said. On the other hand, he said, “McCain has got a reputation for being a little volatile.”
Retired Rear Adm. John Hutson, who has been a Republican his entire adult life, but who now supports Obama, put it this way about facing a national security crisis: “When everybody else goes nuts, the president of the United States needs to get cooler and cooler.”
The idiots are already trying to spread the lie that Obama was showing “Leadership” last nite.
Merrill McPeak, the worst chief of staff of the Air Force that ever came down the pike.
His words mean nothing to me.
No kidding Rush, Obama said previously he wanted Paulson to be his czar if he got to the big house.
That perked my ears up, and I knew what was up.
What the **** is Slurp saying?
Eish.
I wonder if the sheeple will realize that after bashing McCain for being “Bush III” and supporting the President “97% of the time”, the MSM/DNC are now bashing him for opposing the president?
Barney Frank is pathetic.
Harry Reid is pathetic.
Chuck You Schumer is pathetic.
Chris Dodd is pathetic.
LIARS!!!!! All of you!
BTW, does anyone else find it strange that the OTHER Senator from Illinois, who usually LOVES to get face time in situations such as these has been unusually absent? Why are the Dems hiding Senator Durbin?
Bawney Fwanks voice just grates on my last nerve.
He sounds like he spits more than Chrissy Matthews.
Hi all, just got here. Yuck—I have to mute every time Barney Frank or Harry Reid (or just about any democrat for that matter) is speaking. Their lies infuriate me.
Hey, what's my state doing on there? What does the red indicate??? I certainly don't want to think Colorado is heavily involved with ACORN (All Communists Ordering Revolution Now).
Some Freepers research, add Bernadine Dohrn to øbama’s terrorist associations, how these terrorist ever get into the law practice is bewildering:
Obama attended UIC conference with Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn! (my title)
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) | Various
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1989835/posts
The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
Participants include: William (Bill) Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama
Not gonna go there, nope, nope, nope
not gonna do it.
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