No one who reads this blog will be amazed to know that I found Obama by far the more impressive. I don’t like talking about winners and losers as though ideas were 3-baggers or 2-baggers.
But I found Obama more civil by far, more genuine, and more substantive than McCain.
Whatever McCain says, he has decades in Congress that belie his interest in overseeing the country’s financial institutions, and despite his ricochet to DC the other day to solve our latest financial catastrophe, his presence seemed to do nothing other than throw negotiations off track. McCain has been adamantly opposed to controlling financial institutions, so it is quite hollow now to hear him lament the problems of “ordinary” Americans, a class of which he has absolutely no experience and little sympathy.
McCain’s refusal to even look at Obama was contemptible. His arms may not raise, but his eyes surely can. Yet he chose not to ever treat Obama as a real person. His only personal evaluations of Obama were that he is naive and incompetent. Well, some of us see no special competence in McCain and are bored to the last degree with his bracelet, his internment, his pretense that he gives a rat’s ass about Americans who have not millionaire wives and multiple homes.
He is a nasty, waspish, grudging old man who cannot bear the thought that a young man might come along with more brains, ideas, and integrity than he.
Trust me, being 70+ is absolutely no guarantee of wisdom, ethics, or know-how. We have had enormous experience in the administration the last 8 years, and look what we have: two wars, $# trillion in debt plus the current financial crisis that promised to add a minimum of $700billion to it, and a country that is held in contempt by the world, tortures prisoners, spies on citizens, and invokes the Muppets to soften the scare tactics of the country’s readiness state.
McCain is part and parcel of this mess. He helped create it. He has applauded as it all happened. And he has not a clue about how the real people in this country feel.
Let him ignore Obama. Let Obama carry the graciousness of such evenings.
McCain is an old toad who suffers the normal old-toadisms and adds to them with his own special arrogance, ego, and disdain for anyone who has not been raised in the bosom of the USN command and the money that falls when one blows the head off a beer.
He is worthy of contempt.
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1 Julian Long // Sep 27, 2008 at 8:25 pm
As another septuagenarian, I’m struck by the spectacle of an aging politician still trying to validate heroism in Vietnam, still trying to proove his manliness, still trying to surpass his father, etc.
2 admin // Sep 27, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Amen, Julian. He would be pitiful were he not running for president with a woman many of us would not want to meet in a grovery, let alone the east wing.
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