George Will Blasts McCain on Economy

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Registered: 09-15-2008
George Will Blasts McCain on Economy
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Tue, 09-23-2008 - 9:56am
Ouch, babe. When even the pompous and thoroughly Republican Will says the following about you, it ain't good:

The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around.
-- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


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.....


But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
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Tue, 09-23-2008 - 10:19am

Coming from Will, that entire piece is simply amazing.

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Registered: 09-15-2008
Tue, 09-23-2008 - 11:41am
That's kind of been my take, in one sense, all along: McCain is too old by now to be other than what he is. If you like what you see of him (not just his knowledge/experience, but who you judge the man HIMSELF to be), then by all means, vote for him. But there are enough stories floating around out there, many if not most of them from Republican colleagues, which describe McCain's volcanic temper and essentially paint-by-numbers "with us or against us" mentality when approaching anything from international diplomacy to making alliances in the Senate, that it's unlikely bordering on impossible that McCain as President would be any different. Maybe people don't agree with the premises, but I think it'd be hard to disagree with the reasoning that, at 72, if McCain is a hothead, he's not likely to immediately become something else simply by virtue of ascending to the Presidency. Whatever mix of genetics, upbringing, temperament, and experiences have led him to react with flashes of near-immediate anger in certain situations is going to still be there if/when he becomes President. Everyone has some sort of a temper....but when you're KNOWN for it? Just my opinion, but that ought to disqualify someone from that particular job in the way that "flat feet" used to disqualify one, 4-F, from military service.





But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
- Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, 2nd. ed., 1841


But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness