House of Eratosthenes

This is what bugs me about McCain. As a person, I’m sure he’s an honest, truthful fellow. But in politics, he seems to suffer from the kind of tone-deafness that only burdens those who have neglected to think out their positions according to true principles. I see it in quite a few things he does…the global warming thing…the offshore drilling flip-flop…he simply doesn’t live in a world of cause and effect, except inside the beltway. His if-then thinking isn’t quite so much “IF we increase taxes over here, THEN people will stop spending money over there” — but rather — “IF my position changes over here, THEN that guy over there will support me.”

What that all boils down to is he’s pure-bred Yang; atrophied to true if/then thinking, compensating for it by honing his skills at figuring out where the crowd’s headed, and beating ’em there. Not like just any politician. But using it as a substitute for true, critical thinking.

Well, even dedicated, energetic, intelligent Yang screw up pretty often in that department. It’s really something to watch, not unlike seeing a cat walk along the rim of a full bathtub and accidentally fall in. I think we just saw it happen. McCain’s plan is based on the notion that we’re all supposed to think a certain thing about him when we see him do this. It fails to take into account that it’s up to each man to make up his own mind in the confined space between his own ears. And, embarrassingly, it seems to fail to take into account that left-wingers will screech their talking points at us the entire time.

He really should know better.

Boortz’ comments follow…

“MCCAIN WANTS A TIME OUT”

At least that is what liberal websites like the Huffington Post are calling it. As of this morning, John McCain has suspended his presidential campaign in order to focus on the economy. Here’s a taste of the press release …

“I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me.

I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.

We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved. I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night’s debate until we have taken action to address this crisis.”

Obama’s reaction? “The debate is on.”

The first response from the liberal media … McCain is doing this because he doesn’t like the way his campaign is going. The Politico says, “in terms of the timing of this move: The only thing that’s changed in the last 48 hours is the public polling.”

And just in case you give a flying Frisbee what I’m thinking … I think this is a campaign ploy that went wrong. McCain wanted to look presidential. He wanted to show the voters that he would put aside the frivolity of campaigning when there was honest-to-goodness work to be done in Washington. Trouble is, the Obama campaign and the media are all to eager to remind the voters that it was McCain who said that he wasn’t all that up-to-speed on matters economic. I can hear the leftist chattocracy now: “McCain knew that this debate would move into economic matters, and he didn’t feel prepared to address them.”

Sorry … but not a good move.

Not a good move because the Lefty’s don’t think so? In that case Palin sucks, the Surge won’t work, Pres. Bush is the worst Pres. ever…

McCain can talk circles about this “crises” against Obama. Let’s not forget it was McCain who saw the writing on the wall and actually tried to do something about it. Let’s not forget it’s Obama who has taken the most money for lobbyist from Freddie/Fanny while only being in the senate for 4yrs.!

I think this may came back to help with help from McCain. Deal gets done, he flies in to debate, kicks ass…Obama sits on sideline and contributes nothing to the cause, (as usual), gets beaten down in debate…This could turn around…easily.

Be patient Morgan and please stop giving credence to the Huffington Post and the like. I think your bias against McCain shows on this one.

BTW, good to see you posting…I was starting to wonder…
- tim | 09/25/2008 @ 10:18
Really hope you’re right. You could be.

Whenever he’s putting out one set of talking points, and the media is putting out the same set of talking points, I get real suspicious. Of course, my feathers would be smoothed down quite a bit if he changed his position on global warming. Ya gotta admit, walking into a large crowd and telling ’em “You people are worried about the wrong things,” is not McCain’s strongest skill set. The irony is, the Fanny Mae/Freddy Mac thing is the one issue on which he can lay a legitimate claim to having earlier possessed a unique foresight. Strange he isn’t capitalizing on that. A real “maverick” would be playing that up, I think.
- mkfreeberg | 09/25/2008 @ 14:32

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