George Will: McCain Loses His Head

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George F. Will - McCain Loses His Head (washingtonpost.com)

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."

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Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?
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This column by arch conservative George F. Will echoes my sentiments exactly, that McCain is not fit to be president b/c he lacks the temperament and judgment necessary for the office. This is why I believe Obama represents a safer choice for the country. I still have reservations about voting for him b/c of his inexperience, but McCain would be a disaster. Thoughts on George Will's column?
 
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why is it you only post stuff that's negative against McCain? you could easily do the same w/ the other party. I know where you stand, but still.
 
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notverycrucial said:
George F. Will - McCain Loses His Head (washingtonpost.com)




This column by arch conservative George F. Will echoes my sentiments exactly, that McCain is not fit to be president b/c he lacks the temperament and judgment necessary for the office. This is why I believe Obama represents a safer choice for the country. I still have reservations about voting for him b/c of his inexperience, but McCain would be a disaster. Thoughts on George Will's column?
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The exact same rational was used by most of the people that voted for Jimmy Carter....that turned out well!
 
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Chris Cox doesnt know what he is doing and deserves to be fired. He has blood on his hands. Removing the up-tick rule and not banning naked short selling hurt many people
 
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McCain has a temper, big deal.

Joe Biden, on the other hand, is a blithering idiot.

Ben Smith's Blog: Biden garbles Depression history - Politico.com

Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

As Reason's Jesse Walker footnotes it: "And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'"
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It's scary that that moron could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
 
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MG1968 said:
It's scary that that moron could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
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Coming from someone, who I would guess, will be voting for a Palin VP spot. Palin is at least as much an idiot as Biden is except she is worse because she is all too comfortable with the marriage of ignorance and confidence....oh, I forgot....I can't say such things because it would be sexists and unfair.
 
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rjd970 said:
Coming from someone, who I would guess, will be voting for a Palin VP spot. Palin is at least as much an idiot as Biden is except she is worse because she is all too comfortable with the marriage of ignorance and confidence....oh, I forgot....I can't say such things because it would be sexists and unfair.
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I can tell by that post that you are an Obama supporter. You used a lot of words, but didn't say a damn thing worth responding to.
 
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rjd970 said:
Coming from someone, who I would guess, will be voting for a Palin VP spot. Palin is at least as much an idiot as Biden is except she is worse because she is all too comfortable with the marriage of ignorance and confidence....oh, I forgot....I can't say such things because it would be sexists and unfair.
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Well, to be fair to Joe, I will enlighten everyone on a little known historical fact. In 7 of the 55 states in 1929 (Alaska and Hawaii became our 56th and 57th states a little later), not only had they already elected FDR, they were also leaps and bounds ahead in technology. They actually witnessed a polio-cured FDR give them a speech on their HD plasma TVs.
 
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I bet McCain would be the only president in the history of our nation to have a temper.
 
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MG1968 said:
I can tell by that post that you are an Obama supporter. You used a lot of words, but didn't say a damn thing worth responding to.
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I didn't? Exactly how is Biden more of an idiot than Palin? Let's level a charge at Biden, and then convict somebody of being an icky Obama supporter when called out on it. Brilliant.
 
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therealUT said:
Well, to be fair to Joe, I will enlighten everyone on a little known historical fact. In 7 of the 55 states in 1929 (Alaska and Hawaii became our 56th and 57th states a little later), not only had they already elected FDR, they were also leaps and bounds ahead in technology. They actually witnessed a polio-cured FDR give them a speech on their HD plasma TVs.
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And Ms. Palin can see Russia from her house.
 
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rjd970 said:
I didn't? Exactly how is Biden more of an idiot than Palin? Let's level a charge at Biden, and then convict somebody of being an icky Obama supporter when called out on it. Brilliant.
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Let's see, to date Palin hasn't:

1) told a man in a wheelchair to stand up
2) claimed Franklin Roosevelt appeared on TV as the President in 1929
3) claimed that paying more taxes is patriotic
4) said that clean coal technology is not on the table, despite it being one of Obama's energy policies.
5) told folks that Hillary would make a better and more qualified VP
 
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MG1968 said:
Let's see, to date Palin hasn't:

1) told a man in a wheelchair to stand up
2) claimed Franklin Roosevelt appeared on TV as the President in 1929
3) claimed that paying more taxes is patriotic
4) said that clean coal technology is not on the table, despite it being one of Obama's energy policies.
5) told folks that Hillary would make a better and more qualified VP
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And Palin is just a regular saint, isn't she?
 
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MG1968 said:
Let's see, to date Palin hasn't:

1) told a man in a wheelchair to stand up
2) claimed Franklin Roosevelt appeared on TV as the President in 1929
3) claimed that paying more taxes is patriotic
4) said that clean coal technology is not on the table, despite it being one of Obama's energy policies.
5) told folks that Hillary would make a better and more qualified VP
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Let's see, to date Palin has:

1. Turned a half-hearted joke about her proximity to Russia into a legitimate foreign policy credential.

2. Never had a passport until last year.

3. Done nonething to suggest she sees a role for careful analysis or deep understanding of world events.

4. Thinks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have always been funded by the taxpayer.

5. Has never done anything, or shown anything to suggest she understands financial markets, Islam, the history of the Middle East, the cold war, modern weapons systems, medical research, environmental science or emerging technology.

6. Thinks a biblical God directs world events.
 
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1) the press has done that, not Palin.
2) big deal
3) see #2
4) where has she said that? if you can provide a link from a legitimate source, I'll concede the point.
5) see #2
6) what's wrong with viewing politics from a Christian perspective?
 
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MG,

So you really don't see it as a big deal that somebody has no knowledge of any of the major foreign and domestic challenges facing this nation...and moreover...has shown no capacity to rationalize out positions to these issues? Ignorance is bliss I guess.

As far as number 4, you can get it straight from the source:

YouTube - Sarah Palin: Rally 09/06/08

what's wrong with viewing politics from a Christian perspective?
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Given her lifelong involvement in "The Assemblies of God" church she attends, it is safe to assume she shares the view that she "lives in the end times", which means she fully expects the world to end in a series of wars and calamities. People in her congregation describe themselves as part of "the final generation," engaged in "spiritual warfare" to purge the earth of "demonic strongholds." Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Excuse me if I find it a little unsettling that she could be one choked chicken bone away from commanding the most powerful military force in world history.

Sam Harris said it best:

Bush's claim to Bob Woodward that he consulted a "higher Father" before going to war in Iraq got many of us sitting upright, before our attention wandered again to less ethereal signs of his incompetence. For all my concern about Bush's religious beliefs, and about his merely average grasp of terrestrial reality, I have never once thought that he was an over-the-brink, Rapture-ready extremist. Palin seems as though she might be the real McCoy. With the McCain team leading her around like a pet pony between now and Election Day, she can be expected to conceal her religious extremism until it is too late to do anything about it.
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There is also nonething to suggest her views are any different (hopefully I am wrong) to that of Falwell, Hagee, and Robertson. People who publicly came out and said Katrina and 9/11 were God's wrath in response to feminists, ACLU, and to too much tolerance for gay shenanigans.


....Yes, by all means, let's view all political decisions through the purview of religious faith (any faith). It is exactly what we need.

Reasonable people see the difference between making decisions based on evidence and rationalization during the week and worshipping on Faith during Sunday.
 
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so what you're saying is Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks, Michael Pfleger, and Al Sharpton are your kind of spiritual guides?

you can make assumptions about what she believes all you want, just remember what assuming gets you.
 
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rjd970 said:
Given her lifelong involvement in "The Assemblies of God" church she attends, it is safe to assume she shares the view that she "lives in the end times", which means she fully expects the world to end in a series of wars and calamities.
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just as long as all candidates subject to the same assumption
 
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rjd970 said:
MG,

So you really don't see it as a big deal that somebody has no knowledge of any of the major foreign and domestic challenges facing this nation...and moreover...has shown no capacity to rationalize out positions to these issues? Ignorance is bliss I guess.

As far as number 4, you can get it straight from the source:

YouTube - Sarah Palin: Rally 09/06/08



Given her lifelong involvement in "The Assemblies of God" church she attends, it is safe to assume she shares the view that she "lives in the end times", which means she fully expects the world to end in a series of wars and calamities. People in her congregation describe themselves as part of "the final generation," engaged in "spiritual warfare" to purge the earth of "demonic strongholds." Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Excuse me if I find it a little unsettling that she could be one choked chicken bone away from commanding the most powerful military force in world history.

Sam Harris said it best:



There is also nonething to suggest her views are any different (hopefully I am wrong) to that of Falwell, Hagee, and Robertson. People who publicly came out and said Katrina and 9/11 were God's wrath in response to feminists, ACLU, and to too much tolerance for gay shenanigans.


....Yes, by all means, let's view all political decisions through the purview of religious faith (any faith). It is exactly what we need.

Reasonable people see the difference between making decisions based on evidence and rationalization during the week and worshipping on Faith during Sunday.
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And what has she said or done to make you believe she would run this country like we are in the last days?

By your reasoning we should believe that Obama will try to rig elections, intimidate others into giving up on points of political interest to him? After all he has been involved with, instructed and represented ACORN throughout much of his young life right?

See if you use nonsense to base your opinions it usually ends up in your opinion being nonsense!
 
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