McCain’s confusion
5 September 2008
by
lolife
Filed under
Politics + Religion
Let’s give him a break, he’s old after all. Really old. Like approaching the average life expectancy old (which is 77.8 years). But his speech last night was confusing as hell. I can’t sum it up better than this article from the Guardian:
At the biggest moment of his political career, he delivered a flat, stupefyingly boring address that drained away all the excitement generated by Sarah Palin’s pit-bull-with-lipstick performance the night before. His central message - that it’s time to clean up Washington - was incoherent. Yes, McCain has some legitimate reformist credentials. But he’s also a 25-year Washington insider who marches in lockstep with George Bush on such issues as the war in Iraq and tax cuts for the wealthy.
“It really is an audacious ploy, to tell people that the country’s got to correct the mistakes made by a political party when that’s the very party you represent,” writes Tom Shales in today’s Washington Post. “It’s like staging a revolution against yourself - saying that the Republicans have got to go so the Republicans can move in and clean up the mess.”
The facts are in: McCain supports 90% of the Bush agenda. You call that change? Palin is worse than McCain, favoring teaching creationism in school, being irrationally anti-choice and begging oil companies to come in and defile the last great wilderness in America.
Obama/Biden is the ticket that represents real change. The Republicans have been in power for 20 of the last 28 years. They had their chance.
5 September 2008 @ 12:51 pm
I like McCain. I really liked him before he ran for president. He was much more his own person. Last night I found myself feeling sorry for him. There were moments that were so very ackward. Sad to say, but I think his best days are behind him. Imagine where we would be today if Bush wouldn’t have completely fucked him over….
Last night the poor man was uncomfortable and out of his element.
5 September 2008 @ 12:55 pm
I like McCain, too. I’d choose him over Bush any day of the week. I pray to God that President Obama presides over the next 8 years, but if we end up with McCain I hope he doesn’t veer hard Right like Bush did. Be fair, be independent, be peace-mongering, pay down the debt, be kind to the poor, expect more from the rich. It’s not that damn hard.