Xposted 10/5/2008 11:34 AM PDT by BluePalmSpringsBoyx on MyDesert.com
In his today's New York Times Op-Ed piece, a piece that is bound to send Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) off the deep end in another trade-mark temper tantrum, Frank Rich slams McCain as ncreasingly irrelevant to the Presidential race.
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Rich labels McCain as "poor old John McCain," "self-righteous," "looking increasingly shaky," "seemed crazed," and a "seething hostile debate countenance.":
Now McCain is looking increasingly shaky, whether he’s repeating his "Miss Congeniality" joke twice in the same debate or speaking from notecards even when reciting a line for (literally) the 17th time ("The fundamentals of our economy are strong") or repeatedly confusing proper nouns that begin with S (Sunni, Shia, Sudan, Somalia, Spain). McCain’s "dismaying temperament," as George Will labeled it, only thickens the concerns. His kamikaze mission into Washington during the bailout crisis seemed crazed. His seething, hostile debate countenance — a replay of Al Gore’s sarcastic sighing in 2000 — didn’t make the deferential Obama look weak (as many Democrats feared) but elevated him into looking like the sole presidential grown-up.
Conservative newspaper columnist George F. Will unequivocally stated after the Presidential debate that McCain has been acting "un-Presidential" during the recent economic crisis and that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is "obviously not qualified to be President."
The concerns from the left and from the right will damage the McCain/Palin campaign almost irrevocably in Election 2008. Will was one of the reasons that Pres. George H.W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Gov. Bill Clinton (D-AR) in 1992. At that time, Will skewered Bush I for promising no new taxes and then renegging. Republicans stayed away from the polls in droves, and, this along with the presence of the major third party candidate, resulted in Clinton trouncing the tax-reprobate Bush.
Vote Obama/Biden for President/Vice-President beginning tomorrow in California (http://www.barackobama.com).
- Vote-by-Mail begins tomorrow, October 5, 2008
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