I changed parties to vote for McCain 8 years ago. I’ve always liked him. That said, it’s clear to me that one reason he’ll lose big is that he is doddering. He’s weak on important geographical details. Two days back on Good Morning America he stated that Iraq and Pakistan share a border. That’s his third geographical goof. Its predecessors were stating that Iran is training Al Qaeda operatives, thereby exposing his ignorance of the difference between Sunni and Shia, and referring to “Czechoslovakia,” which hasn’t existed for about 15 years, replaced by two countries. People have treated these lapses as trivial. I think they’re significant of a real problem, he’s indifferent to/unable to grasp the sort of details that are essential to statecraft. Expect more and more of these blunders, and better yet, expect it to become an issue.
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Thank you Phil. This is very encouraging indeed.
I plan to vote for McCain this time. Far better an incompetent Devil-In-Chief than a competent one.
It is wonderful to hear that McCain has a mind like Bush. Bush was the best thing to happen to this country since the Lousiana Purchase. He woke people up and made them think. As they say 'People dont change when they see the light but when they feel the heat'.
A little item for Phil's "good news" collection (hat tip–they say–to Glenn Greenwald):
Obama on Israel: Both sides should 'look in the mirror'
"There’s a tendency for each side to focus on the faults of the other rather than look in the mirror," he said.
I am of course madly in love with two things lately: the mirror image and double standards
Norman's mails don't show up in my Google reader anymore. What happened to his feed (?IT)?
But this is a rare gem I would like to share:
Why Norman Finkelstein is a Pariah
My suggestion for the headline:
Jokertrying to control minimal deviation again fails spectacularly, while allowing us a revealing glimpse of his mazed mind.
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If the U.S. were a normal country, with its military confined within its own borders, it wouldn't matter so much that McCain doesn't know Iraq from Iran or Slovakia from Slovenia.
McCain could do his cheeky DeGaulle riff, asking deadpan "Who WAS that transistor salesman?" after meeting the Japanese prime minister. And the Murdoch press would applaud his imperious sangfroid.
But now that the U.S. president has become a kind of sinister Mafia capo, giving secret orders to blow up cars and houses in foreign lands with Predator-launched missiles, he needs to know which enemy crime family he's rubbing out. Even if it's just a wedding party. Because the survivors will surely become enemies.
As Paul Easton indicates, a strategic case can be made to vote for McCain. Since the U.S. isn't to going to stop its policy of global aggression until economic ruin clips its wings, we need an economically illiterate leader (much like the present one) who can run the country into the ground in a hurry, and grind the faces of the middle class into penury and despair. That man is John Sidney McCain.
Go, GO! Go, Johnny, Go!
LOL, Jim Haywood
Yep, "grind the faces of the middle class into penury and despair."
It's coming, it's coming. The question is, then what?
What will happen when the dupes wake up?
History shows eventually they do, and always with a new banner to follow, equally fucked fucked up. But they will take it. It's what the sheeple do, and they are the many, no matter how many get fucked in the usual historical process.