George Will: McCain Loses His Head

[carincross]

Here is today's article by George Will. Is he preferring Obama to McCain?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583_pf.html

McCain Loses His Head By George F. Will

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." ...

McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people. McCain's Manichaean worldview drove him to his signature legislative achievement, the McCain-Feingold law's restrictions on campaigning. ...

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?

[LuckyTheDog]

1. George Will is right: McCain is too dangerous (nt)

[rpannier]

2. What's the matter with George Will. Hasn't her heard???

mcbush was a POW.

He can't go around questioning anything about mcbush: Not his judgement, his wealth, his marital infidelity, nothing.

[liberal N proud]

3. We have had 8 years of senseless rhetoric

We can't take another 4 years.

[Raster]

4. And these four years--Lord hope they don't come to pass--would be the most dangerous!

John McCain would pave the bush*/cheney* way with pardons and other devices to limit the negative exposure of their criminal deeds. McCain has literally sold his soul to realize his long-sought dream of the Presidency, and comes complete with "daddy issues," much the same as bush*. And finally, McCain's age and physical condition would all but guarantee that the most radical, conservative, fundamentalist KKKhristian elements would be ushered into the highest seat of power.

[PA Democrat]

5. I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off of the floor.

George Will was BRUTAL in his assessment of McCain. It sounds to me as if Will is saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks, the new tricks being the ability to reign in an extremely dangerous temper.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Yet Chris Matthews is too busy calling Hillary Clinton names to call McCain "Capt. Queeg." nt

[BridgeTheGap]

6. Besides, wouldn't Palin really be President any way, and then, by christian default

First Dude would really be president, because he's the man in their family. And then, when Alaska secedes, we won't really have a president...
We need a president who is actually willing to regulate these bastards. McSame kept saying "deregulation" and is now CHANGING his tune. He can't be trusted.
I'll take Obama's "inexperience" any day over these coniving s.o.b.s
The republicans have no credibility, no moral authority and have broken the public trust. Any one contemplating keeping that party in the white house needs their head examined!!!

[ginnyinWI]

7. He's going to vote for Obama!

That last paragraph reveals it.

My favorite line is: "McCain's campaign, characteristically substituting vehemence for coherence..."
This refers equally well to Palin.

[vendredi]

8. Endorsement?

George Will was never a fan of McCain. Now I just await his eventual endorsement of Obama!

[Tyler Generation]

9. George Will should be the Rep nominee

Wouldn't that be awesome? Two intelligent men running against each other with actual SUBSTANCE in their debates. Not dipshit McBuch pulling out the "he's gonna raise yer taxes and teach 5 yr olds about sex" due to no good ideas for his own platform.

[MISSDem]

11. I always say that when I agree with George Will that the world is

coming to an end. Well here it is again and thanks for posting this. I was getting ready to when I saw this. Will endorses Obama, essentially!!!

[northernlights]

12. he eviscerated McCain on Sunday am

and never mentioned Obama by name, but simply by comparison, as in whose response was calm, sober, restrained, thoughtful...*PRESIDENTIAL?*