All About McCain

[Alex]

No, McCain is too old for the job in my opinion. I have no problem saying that. Reagan was too old for it. George Bush (the first) would be too old if he tried to get his second term. My grandparents are too old for it. Allan Greenspan is too old for it. Warren Buffet is too old for it. Jack Welch is too old for it. Robert Byrd is too old for it.

It has nothing to do with whether I expect him to live through his term of office (I do), but simply the fact of the odds being so against him in terms of mental and physical decline through ones 70s and 80s and I'm not talking about actual dementia or senility.

If he were 62 instead of 72 I'd be a bit more likely to consider him (though he is still ultimately disqualified simply because the Republicans have flunked in their tenure and therefore should not be rewarded with continuing to hold that particular office). But I really don't have that big an issue with McCain; we disagree on major policy but that is true with Obama as well.


ETA: I was just picking old people out of the air with that list of people who are too old in my opinion. It may turn out that some of them aren't actually as old as I think they are. Feel free to point that out but it doesn't change the point of the sentence.

[scaeagles]

Racism is everywhere. It is not a monopoly of any group of people or ethnic group or political organization or whatever. Bad and backwards people are everywhere. I do not think, however, that racism is as prevalent in our society as it was 40 years ago.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Racism is everywhere. It is not a monopoly of any group of people or ethnic group or political organization or whatever. Bad and backwards people are everywhere. I do not think, however, that racism is as prevalent in our society as it was 40 years ago.

Yeah! Thank goodness there aren't as many racist wife-beater-shirt-wearing people who stake hand-written lawn signs in their front yards!



Yes, it says MUSLIN.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Tenigma

Yeah! Thank goodness there aren't as many racist wife-beater-shirt-wearing people who stake hand-written lawn signs in their front yards!
Yes, it says MUSLIN.

Anecdotal evidence, but disgusting indeed.

Lacasse sounds like a winner (sarcasm intended, just so there is no mistaking that). Ick.

[scaeagles]

I beleie sleepy might be referring to GHWBush flying to Iran to delay the release of the hostages, and also GWBush and the forged documents reported by Rather.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I beleie sleepy might be referring to GHWBush flying to Iran to delay the release of the hostages, and also GWBush and the forged documents reported by Rather.

.....and the BushII DUI on the very eve of the election; yeah, it was true, but c'mon, releasing the info the night before the election was crooked pool.

I am 100% confident it will be done again too.

[BarTopDancer]

And Here. We. Go.

[scaeagles]

If McCain is back on the McCain - Kennedy crap I may very well not vote (for President). This has been an issue McCain has been playing both sides of, but after his comments about how he heard what the people were saying in terms of objections I had not heard that he was playing the other side again.

[innerSpaceman]

You have to go with your gut. Both candidates ... heheh, ALL candidates, are liars. You can't trust what they say ... you certainly can't put any faith in what they promise.

You have to go by your instinct, their history of actions, maybe their body language ... because the words they speak are next to meaningless.


In this regard, McCain has a long history to study. But one must study the actual history, and not what the candidate or the press have said about it. McCain's history has been completely distorted and romanticized by the press throughout his tenure in the Congress. Finding the truth takes more work than 99.372% of voters want to bother with.


Obama's got a history, too. It's less lengthy, but more easily examined. The press have only romanticized the last few years.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I was just coming here to post that! I laughed so hard. Man, I love Tina Fey.

I'd also like to say that it made me kind of happy that I had to search posts over 24 hours old to come up with a political thread. It upset me too much to watch what was going on and what it was doing to people everywhere arguing about it, so I haven't been reading them for several days.