Via The Corner on National Review Online
The messianic style—the cosmic tug to “change history”, or stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, juxtaposed with the creepy faux-Greek columns, Michelle’s “deign to enter” politics snippet, the fainting at rallies, the Victory Column mass address, the vero possumus presidential seal, and the ‘we are the change we’ve been waiting for’ mantra—reflects the omnipresent narcissism: the exalted ends of electing a prophet always justify the often crude and all too mortal means.
If this is considered ‘right’, I’d rather be wrong with McCain.
The only thing that I disagree with on this, is this man assumption that McCain will be any better. That is a logical fallacy of epic proportions. McCain is nothing more than a “made” beltway boy, who was born into a Military Family and happened to marry into a great deal of money.
Attempting to claim that this makes John McCain anymore qualified to be President, would be pouring the fuel of hype onto a fire of foolishness. Truth is, if it were not have his multi-million dollar wife. John McCain would still be a maintenance supervisor in the Military. Well, he would now be retired. Putting it simply, the dude got lucky, damn lucky.
Anything other than this is spin and hype. Period.
I give Bob Barr a little credit, at least he’s a real human being, a real working class person and not a made beltway boy.
McCain leaves a lot to be desired by any stretch (and that’s being so diplomatic about it that it hurts). I’d say there are a few areas they’ll be different. Supreme Court Justices. That stuff about how the courts never touched income redistribution scares the living h3ll out of me. And McCain has bucked his party.
Looking at Chicago, the city is a total disaster in every sense. The murder rate is worse than the Sunni Triangle. Ed-u-ka-shun spending is among the highest in the nation with some of the worst results. Political corruption is horrendous. It didn’t happen overnight and other than the lipservice Obama gave to when he stood up to his party, there’s scant evidence of him doing so.
I truly believe that currently, the govt is too big and too poweful for any one man to control it. You have a lot of power as president but if X number of interests gang up against you, you’re cooked. So you can influence things here and there, but buck the overall “don’t rock the apple cart” philosophy there, and you’re done. I think McCain is beholden to slightly less reprehnsible people and more willing to take a stand.
Thomas Sowell said it really well, basically, People who have lived through both will always choose disgusting over disasterous and I think that’s as accurate as it goes.
Hi Bill,
I agree on about all of that.
I think that’s why McCain’s doing so poorly, between the Liberals kicking his butt and his own Party and it seems campaign kicking him in the jewels, the old man cannot win.
I think more than anything people are just tired of Bush and the Republicans. They desire change. What scares me and you, it does seem, is the kind of change that Obama wants to bring. I’m all for getting jobs back and the like, but that “income redistribution” stuff kinda bugs me.
I wanna work just as much as the next guy, but I’m not interested in robbing others to do it.
Thanks for the comments.
-Pat