From:
Andy Driscoll
Date:
Oct 02 18:10 UTC
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Wow. A back-door Obama endorsement, if ever Ive read one, especially if
added to his scathing indictment of Palins utter incapability as a public
official.
Andy
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> McCain Loses His Head
> George Will
>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR20080922025
> 83.html>
Excerpts:
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."
...
In any case, McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is
a harbinger of a McCain presidency.
...
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?