I posted an Andrew Sullivan blogposting yesterday on Facebook that read:
We forget that McCain has no executive experience, just as Obama has no executive experience. But in terms of judgment, of selection of a running mate, of calm in crisis, of a smooth operation, it is McCain who is revealing his total inexperience and unreadiness for the job, not Obama. In fact, there is no comparison. One campaign is chaotic, secretive, impulsive, unpredictable and losing. The other is supremely well-run, as transparent as a campaign can be, unflappable, very predictable, and winning. I know which man I'd prefer to be runing the country in a crisis. Not hotheaded, mercurial, impulsive, gambling McCain.
A friend of mine - the same Australian conservative I have written about before - felt that Andrew was being biased, and said:
It would be completely accurate to point out that McCain has vastly more judicial experince [sic] than Obama.
I am about to demonstrate that "more" experience isn't necessarily "better" experience.
Here is an (incomplete!) list of the McCain campaign's uncoordinated, flailing behavior over the last week and a half.
Let's start with Carly Fiorina. Why not. She is an economic advisor to McCain, or at least she was until this gaffe wherin the campaign threw her under the proverbial bus:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Oh, and here's McCain touting her record, saying that it was only important that she was a CEO of a company, not important that she was fired and the company lost thousands of jobs and millions under her guidance:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Don't worry, though, she got a $42M golden parachute.
Then there's the matter of his Campaign Manager Rick Davis. He was paid lots of money by Freddie Mac for "access" to McCain:
http://www.nytimes.com/...
As the above article states, McCain said that stopped in 2005. Turns out, that's not true:
http://www.newsweek.com/...
And we can agree that Bush is bad, right? John McCain voted with him 95% of the time. What does that say about his judgement, exactly?
http://www.factcheck.org/...
The day the stock market fell 500+ points, McCain had . . . an interesting insight:
http://blog.aflcio.org/...
Also note his official campaign spin about why he said that:
http://thepage.time.com/...
Then there's him having a senior moment:
http://www.americablog.com/...
And his camp's blatantly odd defense of this:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Then there's his odd political stunt of trying to delay the debate because "the country needs him":
http://www.newsweek.com/...
Even though he hasn't read the plan:
http://www.youtube.com/...
Or actually been to Congress in forever:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Or would even be helpful if he did show up:
http://www.politico.com/...
Strangely, he cancelled on Dave Letterman so he could go to DC . . . and then didn't actually go:
http://www.youtube.com/...
But then, it becomes clear why he actually tried to delay the debate:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...
And who can blame him with a VP that gives interviews like this (remember, he chose her!):
http://slog.thestranger.com/...
Which is why he's been shielding her from the press:
http://www.youtube.com/...
Keep in mind, this has all happened within a week and a half. This is news from 16 different, authoritative sources. If anyone has any others to add, please do, because I'm sure I managed to miss some.
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Cross posted on Facebook.