When people review the transcript, more will be revealed about John McCain than about Obama.
McCain will come across as a guy with a basically incoherent set of ideas and passions (some of them uncontrolled). On the one hand, Georgia should be welcomed into NATO (which might have put us at war, just recently, right?). On the other hand, I'm pretty sure he suggested that they were a KGB satellite state. [Update: on review, he did not. Praise be.] See what I mean? Those two don't exactly square... He's a collection of "impressions" and silky exaggerations, a soppy milktoast composite of what he's heard said by his own party's fops.
Because it's oddball, people mistake this for "maverick" and for "speaking his mind" and for "straight talk".
The truth is, he is not an ideologue, not an idea person at all. This is why he bounces around and has so much flip-flop in even his basic policy stance. He's more of a people person and a total drama queen.
It's also why he's just as dangerous as King George "The Decider". He doesn't have an intellectual rigor, and he'll get thrown off by his own cultural bias in assessing comments like "stinking corps", sent into a tailspin, defining his own simplistic, hard-fast "axis of evil" in ways that are frankly dangerous.
Friday, September 26, 2008
McCain Exposed
