This election season will bring a Tsunami of Tstupid. You have no chance to survive make your time. Here, Josh Marshall moves from stage 2 of the Kübler-Ross model (anger) to stage 3 (bargaining):
The simple truth is that this campaign offers a very clear cut choice on Iraq. One candidate believes that the US occupation of Iraq is the solution; the other thinks it’s the problem. John McCain supports the permanent deployment of US troops in Iraq. That is why his hundred years remark isn’t some gotcha line. It’s a clear statement of his policy. Obama supports a deliberate and orderly withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. It’s a completely different view of America’s role in the world and future in the Middle East. Reporters who can’t grasp what Obama is saying seem simply to have been permanently befuddled by George W. Bush’s game-playing over delegating policy to commanders.
No, they’re just stupid, and nothing you say or do will change that. But whatever gets you through the night. I have my own coping strategy.
Refreshing.
July 5, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Hey, is that the stuff with codeine? Pass it thisaway . . .
The fact that Mr 29% was re-elected, given his record, tells you that McCain has a real chance — not in a perfect world, but certainly in this one.
July 5, 2008 at 10:16 pm
It’s tha thoedst drank evar!
July 6, 2008 at 6:36 am
I am so totally white bread it makes my teeth ache sometimes – The Onion AV Club had a taste test of some marketed as Drank this past week and I had never even heard of the original concoction, let alone some semi-legal herbal simulate.
When did I get so old?
July 6, 2008 at 10:57 am
Sounds like Josh Marshall is drinking too much Obama Kool-Aid. I can think of no rational basis to claim that Obama has “…a completely different view of America’s role in the world and future in the Middle East.” Quite the opposite. It is becoming ever more obvious that the underlying foreign policy view between the two candidates is virtually identical. There are tactical differences and those are not unimportant, but there is no apparent difference in strategy.
Obama opposes (at least for now) the tactical decision to invade and occupy Iraq, but shares the same Likud view of Middle East policy as the Republican establishment. Witness his statements on Iran, Israel, Afghanistan and Pakistan, etc., ad nauseum.
July 6, 2008 at 11:12 am
Or, optionally, like he disagrees with cable news. Still, it probably tastes better than decade-old Naderaide.
July 7, 2008 at 4:11 am
“Reporters with Brains?” Um, reporters report, or so it’s supposed to be. The problem is, now reporters are now “reporting” talking points from press releases as if they’re fact.
There’s a crucial — and straightforward — difference between dispassionate reporting and, um, dispassionate regurgitation. Reporters or news outlets can’t (or won’t) even grasp this difference, they can’t even be bothered to put scare quotes around McCain’s talking points… and Marshall expects them to grasp the difference between tactics and strategy? Bleh.
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