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I know Frank Rich doesn't exactly admire Palin/McCain but this may be his most exasperated editorial yet.
The editorial contains a lot of snippy jibes that will pique the ire of McCain defenders, but please look beyond all that to the events of the McCain timeline of the last few days. No matter by whom they're presented, they paint a pretty alarming picture of a campaign out of control, and a man who either lives in a fantasy world himself or trusts that we do.
If you want to criticize the editorial, please dont just rely on shouts and insults but please at least include links to facts that support your claims or debunk the author's. Thanks!
The editorial contains a lot of snippy jibes that will pique the ire of McCain defenders, but please look beyond all that to the events of the McCain timeline of the last few days.
Suppose John McCain had been in the White House in October 1962, facing one of the great tests of the modern presidency. If so, we might remember that period not as “the Cuban missile crisis” but as “World War III.”
. . .But it’s equally clear that in recent years Mr. McCain has become impish cubed — impulsive, impetuous and impatient — and those are perilous qualities in a commander in chief.
Although he is frantically trying to distance himself from President Bush, Mr. McCain, by his own accounting, would be more Bushian in foreign policy than even Mr. Bush is now. While Mr. Bush has been forced to accept more sensible policies in his second term, Mr. McCain has become steadily more of a neocon in the cowboy role that Mr. Bush played in his first term, prone to solving problems with stealth bombers rather than United Nations resolutions. . .
Too bad McCain wasn't in control during the Cuban Missile Crisis, because if he was, it wouldn't have gotten that far. JFK was a foreign policy disaster.
Too bad McCain wasn't in control during the Cuban Missile Crisis, because if he was, it wouldn't have gotten that far. JFK was a foreign policy disaster.
It's obvious many of you are too young to know what I'm refering to. Do some research - or I'll sick Katie on ya!
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