John McCain: At least he is consistent in his inconsistency — try to do it, on purpose, sometime. So, he is quite skilled.
I think the real question is, though, does John McCain hold ANYTHING sacred? Is there any view on this earth he couldn’t adopt if it were to sate one of his particular appetites.
We look at this as being ‘two-faced’ and ‘amoral’, but many see it as ‘skilled’ and ‘flexible’. John McCain really is, verily I say unto you, a Washington Politician. If Webster’s had a definition for that compound word, I wouldn’t be surprised to see his picture there. And, I think we all know that that place has recently devolved to such a state of affairs that there they can scarcely distinguish truth from fiction and service from avarice.
Posted: May 30, 2008 at 10:59 pm
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Old-style Washington politics doesn’t work well in the internet age.
One used to be able to hop from town to town and tell the people ANYTHING they wanted to hear. With a lazy, compliant “press” practicing the new brand of “journalism”, they could still get away with it, and pretty much do.
But the internet changes things, inconsistencies are pointed out, speeches are compared, simple little things like those which the press consistently fails to do.
Politics is not the only institution failing us, far more frightening, in my view, the press is circling the drain… These are both necessary and vital institutions in a free society. In fact the politics end of things can’t screw up too badly if the journalism end is doing it’s job — but it’s not.
The internet really did come at exactly the right moment to replace the functionality of moldy old corpse of the press. The press really should be the first thing fixed…
I think we are close to the day when we will start repairing our institutions, I’m a hardened cynic but even I feel some hope at this point. In a way, we can thank Bush and his cronies for making many of our problems so CRYSTAL CLEAR through their ineptness and failure to act on anything domestically — it makes it easy to list all the things that are broken.
Posted: May 30, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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If the democratic nomination becomes what Pelosi calls “scorched earth” from all the acrimony, then McCain may be the only path before us. His flexibility could work for OR against traditional republican platforms. It could helpful to see McCain in a positive light, as someone open to being refocused, open to a little persuasion away from dogmatically conservative stances.
Posted: May 30, 2008 at 11:39 pm
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Anon, there is no way in hell that McCain “could work” for us. He is so not ready for primetime that he will cling to every fringe group that supports the status quo, including plenty of homophobe reactionaries that will pressure him to become one of the neocons once he gets into office. He is a dangerous, dangerous man. Look how long it took him to denounce Hagee and Parsley…and then claim he didn’t really know what they had said. Not a good sign…
John McCain is such a mess.
haha
This is one of the funniest posts in quite some time.
John McCain: At least he is consistent in his inconsistency — try to do it, on purpose, sometime. So, he is quite skilled.
I think the real question is, though, does John McCain hold ANYTHING sacred? Is there any view on this earth he couldn’t adopt if it were to sate one of his particular appetites.
We look at this as being ‘two-faced’ and ‘amoral’, but many see it as ‘skilled’ and ‘flexible’. John McCain really is, verily I say unto you, a Washington Politician. If Webster’s had a definition for that compound word, I wouldn’t be surprised to see his picture there. And, I think we all know that that place has recently devolved to such a state of affairs that there they can scarcely distinguish truth from fiction and service from avarice.
Old-style Washington politics doesn’t work well in the internet age.
One used to be able to hop from town to town and tell the people ANYTHING they wanted to hear. With a lazy, compliant “press” practicing the new brand of “journalism”, they could still get away with it, and pretty much do.
But the internet changes things, inconsistencies are pointed out, speeches are compared, simple little things like those which the press consistently fails to do.
Politics is not the only institution failing us, far more frightening, in my view, the press is circling the drain… These are both necessary and vital institutions in a free society. In fact the politics end of things can’t screw up too badly if the journalism end is doing it’s job — but it’s not.
The internet really did come at exactly the right moment to replace the functionality of moldy old corpse of the press. The press really should be the first thing fixed…
I think we are close to the day when we will start repairing our institutions, I’m a hardened cynic but even I feel some hope at this point. In a way, we can thank Bush and his cronies for making many of our problems so CRYSTAL CLEAR through their ineptness and failure to act on anything domestically — it makes it easy to list all the things that are broken.
If the democratic nomination becomes what Pelosi calls “scorched earth” from all the acrimony, then McCain may be the only path before us. His flexibility could work for OR against traditional republican platforms. It could helpful to see McCain in a positive light, as someone open to being refocused, open to a little persuasion away from dogmatically conservative stances.
Anon, there is no way in hell that McCain “could work” for us. He is so not ready for primetime that he will cling to every fringe group that supports the status quo, including plenty of homophobe reactionaries that will pressure him to become one of the neocons once he gets into office. He is a dangerous, dangerous man. Look how long it took him to denounce Hagee and Parsley…and then claim he didn’t really know what they had said. Not a good sign…
McCain is Mediocrity personified. A bumbling Magoo.