All About McCain

[Strangler Lewis]

Well, clearly there's control control, and then there's liberating control. Which is what we do.

[Tenigma]

CNN.com has an editorial by Jack Cafferty today called "Commentary: Is McCain another George W. Bush?"

Obama's campaign has been saying that voting for McCain is to vote for another 4 years of a Bush administration ("McBush"), mostly because there wouldn't be a lot of change in the war, etc.

But this editorial is a little different. Its thesis? That McCain is a STUPID AND SHALLOW as W!! Hilarious. Examples:

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. "It means I'm saved and forgiven." Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we've all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.

Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?

Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.

He was asked "if evil exists." His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to "the gates of hell." That was it.

He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question -- his wife is worth a reported $100 million -- he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.

One after another, McCain's answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has -- virtually none.

Do we really want another stupid president to make fun of? Or a smart, intellectually curious one that we can disagree with? I'd choose the latter (because some of you already know I am a big Obama fan even though I don't agree with all of his stances on issues).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Tenigma

That McCain is a STUPID AND SHALLOW as W!!

Ugh, what a smear piece. Even if I agree with some of the "analysis", the rest is just so much dirty play. *washes hands*

It'd be nice if these editorialists bloggers got inspired by the concepts Obama talks about and rose above this kind of stuff.