Moral Game Change: Ike to McCain
Tomorrow’s water-cooler topic at work will be the HBO Sarah Palin movie, with riffs on the performances, accuracy and political meaning. It’s not likely there will be much talk about its morality.
In 1962, an Eisenhower aide, Emmett J. Hughes, published “The Ordeal of Power,” revealing internal debates during his White House years. It was a first, and when JFK heard about it, he told his staff, “I hope nobody around here is writing that kind of book.” Nobody did.
In our era, everybody tells everything in memoirs or self-serving interviews with journalists. The public’s right to know, you know.
Fair enough, especially about what manipulative political campaigns are hiding, but within “Game Change” and Julianne Moore’s amazing performance, another movie is struggling to be seen—-not about Sarah Palin’s total lack of qualifications to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office but the incredible irresponsibility of John McCain and their handlers once they discover it.
By giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, they manage to hide Palin’s ignorance in her debate with Joe Biden and then high-five one another over the accomplishment, but not once is there even fleeting consideration of replacing her on the ticket, as George McGovern did with Thomas Eagleton in 1972 when news about his mental-health history leaked.
In 2008, says the author of a book about Palin, she “was picked by McCain’s all-male pack of senior advisers not because of her experience and statesmanship, but because of a political calculus that placed a higher value on her flash than her substance. They were looking for a ‘game-changer’–and they treated the political future of this country as though it were, indeed, a game.”
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Idiots may preoccupy themselves with the HBO Palin bashing movie, and the worst will like it (along with lies like Rush Limbaugh is among “extremists”). I’ve seen the HBO Palin bashing movie along with others who have also said it’s a stupid Palin bashing movie. Maybe it’s a warmup for that Obama campaign informercial that “global warming” big liar has produced. It’s Messiah time!
Meanwhile, readers here can learn something long overdue, which describes certain liberal dinosaurs and their “products,” which is why “blue” as well as “liberal” is now discredited and probably will start being avoided, too.
You’ve been told and told over and over about the obvious truths and cannot or, worse, will not learn…maybe Mead helps.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1183
(or you can giggle about Palin, I suppose)
So, where’s the list of all these companies? How many of them have come crawling back? How many of them have been accepted back, or told to buzz off? I’d like to see this list. I’m sure the businesses would like to advertise their position also. So why hide the list?
The list should be made public, and prominent. We should see this list everyday. This will clarify for all the courage these companies have, and give me the information I need to make informed choices about which companies I want to deal with.
I doubt our first commenter will be back. The drive-bys usually aren’t. In fact, it seems the more silly and outlandish the comment the less likely there it to be a follow up. Kind of a funny pattern though.
The bold and rash mistake McCain made in picking Palin for VP ruined his chance to become president, also it eroded much credibility for republicans in general, but it did wonderful things for Sarah Palin.
Products? GM’s were known for ages as inferior, as well s the company and its unions being dinosaurs. They became Government Motors as a result of a federal takeover (screwing the bond holders along the way, among other things).
How are those Volts doing, other than in those 240 MPG or whatever claims were made for it earlier? (Who believed them?)
Meanwhile, the same old stuff, industrial policy, really hasn’t done well in the case of Solyndra, now has it?
As for dinosaurs and their products more generally, it’s always been not just “blue” companies and (more importantly, as Mead says) governments, but “blue” people, whose poor quality and suck-in-the-past products can be seen as articles and comments here every day. There’s simply not enough time in the day to refute it all, no matter how much it’s deserved as well as even proper.
So, so, so much more could be said. Perhaps this will help. It should easily help, of course, but (again) it probably won’t. Try to read and understand and learn from it anyway, though. It’s about the future of big government where it has gone the most far, New York City.
(Many liberals want this country to be run by Washington as a super sized kind of New York City, or say Chicago, when thinking of Obama for a moment. It’s always been wrong.)
http://www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1574
Cheers.