Time to play Name That Columnist!

[KamaAina]

It's easy! I'll post some choice excerpts from a column sharply critical of McCombover by a name-brand columnist, and you tell me who it is. Ready?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html

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 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. 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. Today, his campaign is creatively finding interstices in laws intended to restrict campaign giving and spending. (For details, see The Post of Sept. 17; and the New York Times of Sept. 19.)...

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?

3... 2... 1... Go!

[DevonRex]

1. Gotta be George Will, following up with his remark about McCain

showing his scary personality. I'll donate another $25 to Obama if I'm wrong.

[KamaAina]

8. DING DING DING! We have a winner!

No more calls, please.

But Barack could've used the twenty-five bucks... :(

[DevonRex]

9. Dang. You talked me into it. I need another Tshirt anyway.

MoveOn has a really cool light blue one now that I don't have yet. But I have to contribute $30 to get it.

My husband is gonna have a stroke when he sees all my T shirts. He can add by $30s really fast. :)

[dbonds]

2. If McSame has lost him, he is in real trouble.

[cyberpj]

3. Sounds like the eloquence of Keith Olberman to me. But the game itself must mean it's not him.

?

[cyberpj]

5. Damn! Why didn't I cheat and just look? Silly Democrat. :)

[DevonRex]

6. Because we dems are honest. It's a GOOD trait. :) nt

[grantcart]

4. too easy

[nomaco-10]

7. billy boy kristol? n/t

[11 Bravo]

10. I read it in my morning WAPO, so I can't play.