I mean, that’s what this is, right?
Like Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain confuses opposition to an unnecessary war with a lack of spine and an unwillingness to use force when the nation is truly in danger. Obviously, Mr. Obama is untested as a commander in chief and his trip was intended to reassure voters. But Mr. McCain is as untested in this area as Mr. Obama, and it is hard to imagine a worse role model than the one Mr. McCain seems to be adopting: President Bush.
Many voters are wondering whether a McCain presidency would be an extension of Mr. Bush’s two disastrous terms. If the way Mr. McCain is running his campaign these days is an indication, Americans don’t have to wait until next January for the answer to that one.
Buh-buh-but he was in a prison camp! Which makes him a foreign policy wiz! Due to reasons the pure of spirit understand instinctually! What could have caused them to indulge in such unhinged political hate speech?
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House. Less than a month later, the results are on full display. The candidate who started out talking about high-minded, civil debate has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove’s low-minded and uncivil playbook.
“How Frightful!” exclaims the Grey Lady, the official Dissapproving Schoolmarm of Our Precious Democracy. And with that, McCain can pretty much forget about capturing the all-important “finishing school moms” demographic.
July 30, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Mr. Obama is untested as a commander in chief
My God, this analysis by the NYT is devastating in it’s clarity of thought. Without any commander-in-chief experience, or even any experience as president of a modern superpower, the presumptuous Democratic nominee is unqualified for the job. And the other candidate, John McCain, is also equally untested.
The conclusion is clear. Someone with actual wartime commander-in-chief experience in the post 9/11 world must be found to be President. Congress has just repealed the 4th amendment, and needs to continue this essential work by repealing the 22nd as well. We can only hope that common sense prevails.
July 30, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Listen, David Shuster and Pat Buchanen attempted to beat the sh*t out of Rachal Maddow tonight on Race For The White House. They spent an hour explaining that while McCain is a negative crank, Obama is an scary, uppity negro who thinks he is somebody. So the NYT comes out and says McCain is a negative crank. So what? It’s the TV media that is running that confused crank’s campaign for him. The only reason McCain is anywhere in the double digits in the polls is because without a “real” race, cable may as well fold up their table and runs I Love Lucy all day.
The TV channels are watching the NYT’s profits plunge. Compare that with MSNBC’s ratings going up something like 80% during the primaries. Money rocks and apparently bringing McCain up before they dismantle him in October is going to pay GE’s light bill.
July 30, 2008 at 5:50 pm
ack! I mean David Gregory. This is what happens when steam comes out of my ears.
July 30, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I love you, man.
July 30, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Gregory and Buchanan were such fuckbrains that they made Smerconish look good by comparison. That takes some doing.
July 30, 2008 at 6:28 pm
[...] above curv3ball’s post, and not because there isn’t a lot more stoopid to go around, The Editors reminds us of something so transparently obvious it should be spoken about all the time, particularly on the Great Tube of Learnin’ which so many of McCain’s base relies on [...]
July 30, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Wes Clark was right.
July 30, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Obama/Clark ’08, muthaphukkas!!!!
July 30, 2008 at 7:41 pm
“I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate. I almost died and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors.”
–Greenish-yellow-toothed “Hero” John McCain
July 30, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Ooh, thanks Caleb! John “Air Pirate” McCain, has a nice ring to it, huh?
July 31, 2008 at 4:05 am
nope, nothing funny…
i AM TEH DEFEATED1
July 31, 2008 at 5:22 am
>and needs to continue this essential work by repealing the 22nd as well.
Otherwise it’s Bush I or Carter, I guess. Can’t have the NYT taking fainting spells over an “untested” C-in-C.
July 31, 2008 at 8:13 am
The NYT criticizes John McCain in a manner guaranteed to spark criticism of “liberal bias at the NY Times” and then criticizes Obama too … so that way the response is “even the liberal NY Times is worried about Obama’s lack of experience”? Call me paranoid, but this all seems like a set up to me …
July 31, 2008 at 9:28 am
David Ignatius more than makes up for any negative NYT coverage by giving McCain a good knob-polishing in today’s WaPo.
July 31, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Caleb informed us that McCain said:
“I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate.”
Well, it’s all over for Obama now. McCain can be the first black president!