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George Will Questions McCain Fit for the Presidency!!!

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Is McCain Fit for the Presidency?

By George Will

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."
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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-Rep. 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 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, Page A4; and the New York Times of Sept. 20, Page One.)
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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?

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will092308.php3
 
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Sandhusker said:
So who the hell is George Will?

You better turn in your conservative card if you don't know who Will is... :wink: :lol: :p


George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Will
 
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Yep you can't run as a conservative, moderate, liberal, and populist all at the same time ;) :lol: - which has been McCains history for a quarter of century, with his policy daily being made by which Lobbyiest waved the most money in front of him that day...

He's a loose cannon- and he scares me if he gets his finger on the nuke button.... :(

Even he or the Repubs don't follow their policy/platform anymore when Wall Street money talks....

This is taken directly from the 2008 Republican Platform:

We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for all.
 

VanC

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George Will is one of my favorite all time non-fiction writers. He also grew up in the same town I did, but he's a bit older than I am. I've read every book he's written and many of his columns. Like me, he's a huge baseball fan, and has written three books on baseball that are an absolute delight to folks like me. Only problem I have reading him is that his vocabulary is light years ahead of mine, so I have to keep a dictionary handy. He also has a child with Down Syndrome, and has written some very touching columns about that.

He's a conservative, but he's been very critical of Bush, McCain and many other Republicans in the past. He also gives credit to Democrats when he feels they deserve it. Not too many like him out there these days on either side of the spectrum. I don't always agree with him, but I take what he says very seriously.

One thing you can take to the bank: Agree with him or not, no one has ever accused him of playing loose with the facts.
 

alice

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VanC said:
George Will is one of my favorite all time non-fiction writers. He also grew up in the same town I did, but he's a bit older than I am. I've read every book he's written and many of his columns. Like me, he's a huge baseball fan, and has written three books on baseball that are an absolute delight to folks like me. Only problem I have reading him is that his vocabulary is light years ahead of mine, so I have to keep a dictionary handy. He also has a child with Down Syndrome, and has written some very touching columns about that.

He's a conservative, but he's been very critical of Bush, McCain and many other Republicans in the past. He also gives credit to Democrats when he feels they deserve it. Not too many like him out there these days on either side of the spectrum. I don't always agree with him, but I take what he says very seriously.

One thing you can take to the bank: Agree with him or not, no one has ever accused him of playing loose with the facts.

I've always looked at George Will as a man of integrity. I may not agree with him, but I do admire his integrity.

Alice
 
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