Tuesday, September 23, 2008

McCain Articles Today

George Will wrote in the Washington Post McCain Loses His Head "It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?"

Jennifer Parker writes for ABC News McCain Gaffes Could Undercut Message on Economy, Foreign Affairs "In recent days, John McCain has made a series of verbal gaffes that have undercut his campaign claim that he is the candidate who is ready to safeguard the nation's struggling economy, some political analysts believe."

Ben Smith writes in Politico McCain camp criticism rife with errors - "Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called ‘liars.’ They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record. But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy."

Even Ken Burns criticizes McCain's VP Pick "'He (McCain) selected someone who is so supremely unqualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency and he has turned the selection process into a high school popularity contest and an 'American Idol' competition,' Burns said. He said that McCain made a 'cynical' pick in what he said was the most important decision of his presidential candidacy. Burns, whose lifelong work is in American history, said that 'in the whole history of the Republic there has been no one with as thin a credential' as Palin. He said it was, for McCain, a 'Hail Mary pass' that will be decided in November."

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