The Case for McCain
In a hybrid of defense closing argument and political obituary, David Brooks in today’s New York Times comes forward as a character witness for “a serious man prone to serious things.”
Citing his candor, humility, “crusade” against corruption and, most of all, his “impressive” years as the Iraq war deteriorated, Brooks attempts to separate that John McCain from today’s campaigner “without a groundbreaking argument about why he is different” who has had to “rely on tactical gimmicks to stay afloat.”
Brooks says that failure comes “in part because of his Senate training and the tendency to take issues on one at a time—-in part, because of the foolish decision to run a traditional right-left campaign against Obama and, in part, because McCain has never really resolved the contradiction between the Barry Goldwater and Teddy Roosevelt sides of his worldview.
“One day he’s a small-government Western conservative; the next he’s a Bull Moose progressive. The two don’t add up–as we’ve seen in his uneven reaction to the financial crisis.”
3 Responses to “The Case for McCain”
With his recent stunts, John McCain has demonstrated he is too erratic to be President. What he is going to do if he's President and a major crisis hits, suspend the Constitution?
That's already been done by his clone-donor…lol…
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“In a hybrid of defense closing argument and political obituary, David Brooks in today’s New York Times comes forward as a character witness for “a serious man prone to serious things.”
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Yes, well put. He is serious alright: seriously scattered and running scared.
There's a bigger thing we need to look at as voters. I know how Americans are loathe to consider the world's view of our country, but our very financial future depends on how the world sees our next leader and the decision Congress will come up with.
This economic crises really is one of confidence…confidence this point of foreign investors. If we elect erratic McCain, and pass an “unknown risk” bailout for his rich friends, foreign investors will continue to see our markets affected by our leaders as erratic. If we enact a “Trickle Up” economic package that strengthens our economy at its base: the worker and his/her family, and elect the cool-headed Obama, foreign investors confidence will skyrocket and so will our markets.
heh…
The GOP needs to be more careful in the words they use to spin their webs of lies and deceit. Naming this crises as one of confidence, which it truly is on the world level, was their fatal error. Coupled with McCain's erratic behavior and GOP insistance on passing an economic package that screws the little guy (we know no matter what they say publicly that their “pushbacks” are all about gravy for the rich and letting the poor eat cake..), we have a situation where the GOP has tied the noose around their own necks.
The answer to our wrecked economy, an economy that depends on confidence, is to enact the “Trickle-Up” package with leading Ivy League economists' stamp of approval and elect Barack Obama president. That is our best and highest effort to restore confidence in foreign investors…the only ones at this point whose currency has the punch we need to restore our nation.
The economy is a crises of confidence.
Checkmate again.
Actually, this crisis originated in the Democrats' resistance of reforming their personal ATM at FanFred.
Here's the lead of a New York Times story on Sept. 11, 2003: 'The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.'
'These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,' said Rep. Barney Frank, then ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. 'The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.'
We're not playing chess, and this is “Game, Set, Match” as far as accountability is concerned.