McCain's Temperament Fails Again

[Contrary1]

"WASHINGTON -- 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."

To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust."

Perhaps an old antagonism is involved in McCain's fact-free slander. His most conspicuous economic adviser is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who previously headed the Congressional Budget Office. There he was an impediment to conservatives, including then-Congressman Cox, who as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee persistently tried and generally failed to enlist CBO support for "dynamic scoring" that would estimate the economic growth effects of proposed tax cuts.

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 Manichean 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 Washington Post of Sept. 17, Page A4; and The New York Times of Sept. 20, Page One.)..."

More: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccains_temperment_fails_again.html

The Freeps are pit bulling each other on this article, in case you enjoy that sort of thing. I do.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088281/posts

[Bluebear]

1. "Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts" -- ooh I bet he LOVES that!

:rofl:

[Greg K]

2. Queen of Hearts? How sexist!!!

;)

[ColbertWatcher]

4. How about he's like Norma Desmond?

[Bluebear]

5. With Karl Rove as "Max"

[ColbertWatcher]

7. If Rove is "Max", who is "Joe"? n/t

[Bluebear]

8. Mitt Romney?

[ColbertWatcher]

16. LOL! n/t

[Bobbieo]

6. Not 'how sexist' - How 'Manchurian Candidate'

[Giant Robot]

3. So I went over "there"

And read the free republic responses.

Wow.

Seriously what the hell is going on over there. I don't visit that site often, mainly because trying to navigate it gives me a headache, and I try very hard not to be disparaging of the other side of the political spectrum, in the vain hopes that it will be reciprocated. But what the fuck? In half a dozen responses Obama was called a "Marxist" or a "communist." Is it still 1963 over there? I made a little joke about that website a few days ago saying it was like visiting a site stuck in 1995. But fuck, it is really like they are still fighting Kruschev (spelling?) and those damn dirty hippies at the same time. Can someone please tell them that it is 2008 and they should move on and join us in this millennium. And maybe have one or two of them read something by Marx and maybe learn something while you're at it. Thanks.

[underseasurveyor]

9. Freepers? Read?

:spray:

[Giant Robot]

10. My bad dawg

n/t

[EFerrari]

15. Freepers make me wish Kruschev HAD buried us.

Who in their right mind could mistake Obama for a MARXIST?!

:rofl:

[Giant Robot]

17. I don't think it's a mistake

If it is willful ignorance.

[dkf]

11. You left out the most important line..."By George Will"

Now that is a shocker.

[Giant Robot]

12. That damn pinko commie hippie liberal George Will

Or something.

[dkf]

13. Is that what they are saying at Freeperland?

hee hee. Gosh that tickles me.

[meowomon]

14. Thank you. That was refreshing

[radfringe]

18. a typical characterization of McCain is

"ready FIRE aim"

[pnorman]

19. Here's one choice excerpt:

To: Checkers
You’re making the assumption that McCain is preferable to Obama and the inevitable backlash to follow....

As a matter of fact --- yes, I am.
McCain might not have been my first choice, but, now, the issue is settled for me. Anyone who opposes McCain at this point should be back in DU --- preaching to his original choir.

"...should be back in DU"

Not frequently, but occasionally, I see some of that knee-jerk dissing of "uncomfortable" postings here on DU.

pnorman