Camille Paglia, responding as it were to a letter from St. Louis Park, discounts McCain’s ability to hold executive office in favor of Obama’s substantially higher level of relevant experience.
What is her assessment based on?
Like a broken record…he’s run an inspiring campaign. He’s shrewd. He looks good; smells good. The egg justifies the chicken.
Yes, McCain is profoundly patriotic, as were his military forebears. Patriotism, rather than race, may indeed prove to be the determining factor in this election. But I simply don’t see that McCain has the basic managerial ability to run the complex Washington bureaucracy. Obama lacks executive experience too, but he has shown a shrewd ability to captain a national campaign. And Obama’s sober, deliberative temperament seems to me genuinely presidential. In contrast, McCain’s bizarre grandstanding during the Wall Street crisis (such as his embarrassingly unprofessional call for cancellation of the first debate) suggested that he lacks the steadiness of behavior and expression that we have a right to expect in a president.
Then she labels McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and call to postpone the first debate, in a time of financial crisis and investor panic, as grandstanding; a ridiculous charge given the events as they occurred. The fact that we didn’t have a greater meltdown is not cause for criticism for what was clearly an executive decision to err on the side of precaution.
I know this is editorial bullsh*t but its bullsh*t nonetheless and Obama’s brain dead followers are eating it up like cattle being fed on the way to the rendering plant.
Angryclown thought the best part of McCain’s effort to single-handedly save the economy was when he got his nose powdered in preparation for his totally not-grandstanding interview with Katie Couric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKlhxzjkCc
McCain did a quick interview with the Perky CBS loss-leader? What arrogance!
Meanwhile, regular gas is $2.99 per gallon at the BP on Dale Street, right in the heart of St. Paul. Cheapest its been all year.
I’m sure there will be banner headlines in the Pi Press soon, blaming Bush for the plight of women and minority gas station attendants, hardest hit by low fuel prices.
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Maybe she ought to see what a reporter who has followed both campaigns has to say about Obama’s ability to “manage a campaign.” “Obama’s plane stinks,” he says, and that’s only one example of the poor management of the campaign. Obama is an empty suit, why would anybody believe he was qualified?
Uh, so people shouldn’t vote for Obama because the press accommodations are bad.
It’s fun watching you wingnut dead-enders get desperate. A couple more days of declining Dow and increasing Obama polls and it’ll be like Hitler’s bunker in here.
JR – he ‘suspended’ his campaign to go to Washington to signal a desire to bring two sides together and when the chips were down, and Obama said “I think we should hear from Senator McCain”, what did he say?
“I am generally in agreement with House Republicans” as they balked at the bailout – and wanted further cuts in the Capital Gains Tax (already at historically low levels). No commentary on how this was devicive, no attempt to bring Senate Republicans, House Republicans, and Democrats together on a comprimise bill, he backed the most extreme position of his party, and did so with vapid platitudes.
THEN he ‘unsuspeneded’ his campaign and went to the debate, WITHOUT an agreement, backing a dead horse bill.
That’s not leaderhsip, and no one is brain dead for thinking he was grandstanding, vague, and useless when the nation needed him.
BTW – in reply to Mitch’s incessant meme that the left should be winning in a walk, here is a quote from the autheor of Blogging Ceaser, a right-leaning guy, but also the best prognosticator on the web…per Hugh Hewitt among many others.
“Before I close, there’s an important development and an intriguing fact to point out among the Senate races this morning. Al Franken has moved ahead of Norm Coleman for the GOP-held seat in Minnesota. That’s the important development, and it balances a switch back to the GOP in Alaska that we saw yesterday. The intriguing fact is that we’ve now seen no fewer than 10 GOP Senate seats projected as Democratic takeovers at one point or another. When you consider how few seats are normally vulnerable in any given election year, that’s a staggering number.”
Note the word ‘staggering’. Yep, sure is amazing how this isn’t as bad for the Republicans as it ‘ought to be’, except of course, that outside the brain dead right-wingnuts, the rest of the country understands it’s EVERY BIT AS BAD AS IT COULD BE.
AC – they’ve had a bunker mentality for 7 years, don’t believe anything unpopular, just keep ordering the fake Panzer Divisions to relieve Berlin. What’s that you say Mrs. Goebells, do I have any rat poison?
Oh, hey, Nate, funny how NO DRILLING has occured, yet gas has fallen $1.40 or so on the heels of no more sabre rattling about Iran. Funny thing that.
Wonder what we’ll do when offsore drilling is suspended as the price per barrel falls below $60 – well, $60 adjusted for inflation as the dollar continues to shoot downward due to the unbridled ‘free market’ idiocy of moving every job in the USA that pays decently, and every segment of manufacturing outside of cars, overseas.
Peev, it’s called supply and demand. When times get hard people don’t buy as much oil. The price drops.
I’d rather drill.
“Wonder what we’ll do when offsore drilling is suspended as the price per barrel falls below $60”
BIGALGORESIGH, What we will do, dumbass, is pay even more for gas as demand goes up, driven by the relatively low cost of gas. Which is why when the price does go up, we should allow the drilling. You are under the impression that the price of gas has fallen due to “no more sabre rattling about Iran”??? Are you freaking kidding?
“in reply to Mitch’s incessant meme that the left should be winning in a walk,”
So when Mitch points out that Obama should be way ahead in the election, your response is pointing out Senate races?
“AC – they’ve had a bunker mentality for 7 years, don’t believe anything unpopular, just keep ordering the fake Panzer Divisions to relieve Berlin. What’s that you say Mrs. Goebells, do I have any rat poison? ”
And the obligatory despicable Nazi reference of people you disagree politically with. So straw men, misdirection, clueless on the most basic econ points, and contemptible association of the opposition to Nazi’s. And you want to run the country. Amazing. Oh, you forgot to call us all racist. You can catch that in your next rambling, nonsensical comment.
Racists switched from democrat to republican because of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” in the 60’s-70’s. It was just a coincidence that the socialist and commie bourgeois started voting democrat at the same time. S’truth! Just ask angry clown!
unbridled ‘free market’ idiocy of moving every job in the USA that pays decently, and every segment of manufacturing outside of cars, overseas…
My division got moved to Bangladesh? Damn, when did that happen? Why wasn’t I (or anyone else in my division who still shows up to work every day in St Louis Park) informed of this?
Oh, that’s right, because it’s peev spewing his anal drippings again, not reality.
I can guarantee you that there are at least 85,000 “good paying” jobs in this country that have no intention of being shipped overseas.
dammit.
better?
Peev,
The prices have also dropped because the is the offtime for ethanol in the pipe.
Thanks JRoosh!