{"id":3440,"date":"2008-10-09T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:46:36","slug":"camille-smitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Camille: Smitten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camille Paglia, responding as it were to a letter from St. Louis Park<\/a>, discounts McCain’s\u00a0ability to hold executive office in favor of Obama’s\u00a0substantially higher level of relevant experience.<\/p>\n

What is her assessment based on?<\/p>\n

Like a broken record…he’s run an inspiring campaign. He’s shrewd. He looks good; smells good.\u00a0The egg justifies the chicken.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t 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\u2019s sober, deliberative temperament seems to me genuinely presidential. In contrast, McCain\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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,\u00a0as 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camille Paglia, responding as it were to a letter from St. Louis Park, discounts McCain’s\u00a0ability to hold executive office in favor of Obama’s\u00a0substantially 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.\u00a0The egg justifies the chicken. Yes, McCain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}