What a McCain administration would represent:
Categories: Current Events, Bush Administration, Campaign 2008, Ideals
So explains one of my favorite columnists (incisive, bright and never a Hillary basher), the New York Times' Paul Krugman, in an Op-Ed piece titled "Rove's Third Term." As Krugman says on this 4th of July, the 232nd such date since the founders declared all people of the American Colonies free and independent from tyranny:
"Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service ... Again and again we’ve had media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never actually took place ... What General Clark actually said was that Mr. McCain’s war service, though heroic, didn’t necessarily constitute a qualification for the presidency. It was a blunt but truthful remark, and not at all outrageous — especially given the fact that General Clark is himself a bona fide war hero ...
"It was predictable that the McCain campaign would go wild over the Clark remarks. Mr. McCain’s run for the White House has always been based on persona rather than policy: he doesn’t have ideas that voters agree with, but he does have an inspiring life story ... But the McCain campaign went beyond condemning General Clark’s remarks; it went out of its way to distort them ...And sure enough, Adam Nagourney of The New York Times reports signs of the 'increasing influence of veterans of Mr. Rove’s shop in the McCain operation ...'"
In his article, Krugman pointedly reminds us of the 2000 and 2004 Rove-directed debacles and asks, "Will Rovian tactics work this year?
Read it all: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/opinion/04krugman.html?hp
As for me, I keep coming back to the old saw that a country gets the government it deserves. And I have seriously considered what on earth we might have done to deserve the hideous Rove/ Cheney/ Bush/ Rumsfeld/ Ashcroft/ Gonazles/ Scalia/ Alito/ Roberts cabal.
Today I can only cling to the hope that we have sufficiently cured our offense to prevent Rove/McCain/Bud Day et al from dragging us through the mud by further degrading the political process and foisting upon us an even worse Federal Government and Supreme Court than we have endured for the past 7-1/2 years.
Positively,Carolan
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