From uber Conservative George Will:
Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.
Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that “McCain untethered” — disconnected from knowledge and principle — had made a “false and deeply unfair” attack on Cox that was “unpresidential” and demonstrated that McCain “doesn’t understand what’s happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does….
To read the Journal’s details about the depths of McCain’s shallowness on the subject of Cox’s chairmanship, see “McCain’s Scapegoat” (Sept. 19). Then consider McCain’s characteristic accusation that Cox “has betrayed the public’s trust.”
“Off with his head!” isn’t a good leadership style. Barack Obama has shown the level headed leadership and patience necessary to handle a crisis — John McCain is bouncing around from failed attack, to failed attack. Barack Obama has shown who is the real grown up here, and John McCain has shown that all those concerns about his temper and judgment are well founded.
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McCain/Palin have been stonewalling the press for weeks and weeks.
With videos like this, McCain has a strong ally.
http://www.catholicvote.com
An unbelievably moving video from the Catholic Church. A inspirational and educational film on voting for Catholics and all people of faith
Yes, it encourages exercise of individual conscience, but it strongly affirms life and the heritage of faith that built our country.
American exceptionalism is founded on our moral exceptionalism.
And I’m not even Catholic. It is beautiful.
Obama and Biden are in for a tough couple months.
Republicans are the most anti-family group ever. What are you talking about? Republicans own the abortion issue and the anti-gay issue, neither of which are Christ’s main issue. I defy you to find more than a few passages about Jesus Christ that are not bout social justice, or compassion for the least among us.
Life does not end at birth. Republicans are pro-family and pro-life until birth.
Voting against health care for children is not pro-family.
Voting against equal pay for equal work is not pro-family.
Voting for de-regulation that has stymied the middle class so the upper class can get millions is not pro family
Voting for tax breaks for big oil while families struggle is not pro-family.
Republican politicians are the most un-christian bunch there is. Yourself included Mr. Benson. Jesus said, what you do to the least among us you do to me. The Republicans favorite targets are the least among us. The poor, the disenfranchised, the immigrant, the different. Just about every republican policy makes it harder for families to make while enriching the top 1%. You cannot even spend time with your family because REpublicans attacks on labor making purchasing power for the middle class stagnant over the lat 30 years while the top 5% have increased 10 times.
The bottom line is that Christ was never about gays and abortion. He was about social justice and, again, the least of us. Republicans only attack the least of us.
It is insulting to say Republicans are pro-family when Republican economics have destroyed the middlle class family.
Thanks, Alec
WOW! Imagine that. A conservative writer saying that the candidate from his side of the aisle doesn’t walk on water! How enlightened. You mean to say that as a news guy or columnist, you can be critical of your candidates? You don’t have to treat him like the Messiah?
Someone better tell the liberal media. They’ve actually convinced themselves that Obama is an experienced Senator who works across party lines! LOL! Yeah - across party lines!
George Will is the most recalcitrant of republican ass-kissers. If he is criticizing McCain, the ticket has gone completely off the rails.
“Obama and Biden are in for a tough couple months.” Snarf.
DantheMan, I agree 100%,
To think that people who disagree with Minnesota Republican bloggers have a candidate that they think is a great one is laughable. Don’t they realize Obama disagrees with Minnesota Republican blogeers on issues? Good Grief!!!
It’s giving me the vapors again.
We Republicans do not elect messiahs, we elect strong, bold, steady leaders! Just look at the Republican party’s track record, and you’ll see nobody walking on water.
Everyone knows America has only benefitted from the permanent election campaign we Republicans like to run, the all so familiar, never ending ridicule, insult, and mocking of Liberals. That is why we Republicans are best suited to work with people who disagree with us.
People who disagree with Republicans are the greatest threat America has ever faced!
Great Job Minnesota Republican blogger DantheMan!
Nothing like a financial crisis to bring the country together. I truly have gone down the rabbit hole when I’m agreeing with conservatives at every turn- G. Will, N. Gingrich, J. DeMint. Don’t really understand problem well enough to know who to blame or what to do about it, but seems there might be some room for bipartisan solutions if striving for political advantage doesn’t take precedence.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5870890 http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/433071/33763676
DtM, it is especially noteworthy because conservative commentators — Mr. Will included — tend to be the prime cheerleaders for the Republican personality cult of the moment. Liberal commetators, despite everything Fox News has told you about “Obama-mania,” tend to avoid deifying Democratic candidates