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February 23, 2008
McCain Hires Dumb People

McCain has declared two days ago:

No representative of Paxson or Alcalde and Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC regarding this proceeding.

He had declared something different in 2002:

"I was contacted by Mr. [Lowell] Paxson on this issue"

Mr Paxon agrees with the older version:

Paxson said yesterday, "I remember going there to meet with him." He recalled that he told McCain: "You’re head of the Commerce Committee. The FCC is not doing its job. I would love for you to write a letter."

And what has McCain’s lawyer to say about this:

"We understood that he [McCain] did not speak directly with him [Paxson]. Now it appears he did speak to him. What is the difference?" Bennett said.

Now it is obvious that McCain was caught on the ‘Straight Lie Express’. I don’t care about that. Politicians lie all the time.

But being President is about hiring good people.

McCain hires people who can not recognize the difference between "did speak" and "did not speak".

That is a big problem.

Posted by b on February 23, 2008 at 19:02 UTC | Permalink
Comments

After the last Clinton/Obama TV ‘discussion’ everyone now seems to predict that Obama will win and that Clinton is out. I said so before that ‘discussion’ even though I made clear it is not my prefered choice.
But with everyone now hauling to the Obama side, it maybe that a contrarian position is the more realistic one.
Not sure yet, but there is too much Obama hype … and too much bye, bye Hillary?
Soldiering On, but Somber as the Horizon Darkens

To her longtime friends, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sounds unusually philosophical on the phone these days. She rarely uses phrases like “when I’m president” anymore. Somber at times, determined at others, she talks to aides and confidants about the importance of focusing on a good day’s work. No drapes are being measured in her mind’s eye, they say.

Posted by: b | Feb 23 2008 23:21 utc | 1

The “swift boating” of OB has just barely begun. don’t count the Clintons out just yet. I still believe if it’s close going into the convention, They’ll prevail.

Posted by: Ben | Feb 24 2008 0:24 utc | 2

Now it is obvious that McCain was caught on the ‘Straight Lie Express’. I don’t care about that. Politicians lie all the time.
I believe people deserve better from their elected officials and representatives. Honesty is a most valued virtue in my personal christian beliefs. Many others who hold different religious or non-religious beliefs surely hold the idea of being truthful in high esteem. On a practical perspective, if one can’t trust someone in small matters, why trust that person on more significant issues?
In that perspective, McCain’s intelligence is nothing to be excited about, so why expect those he hires to be any better?

Posted by: Rick | Feb 24 2008 5:26 utc | 3

Rick asked “…if one can’t trust someone in small matters, why trust that person on more significant issues?”
And that brings us back to the late 1990’s Clinton question again. Those who like the man make the issue a “small matter” of sexual tomfoolery, and those who don’t like him focus on the perjury angle. It works the same way with wars. Clinton’s Balkan wars are supported by Democrats and Bush’s Iraq wars are supported by Republicans. There’s always room in a partisan’s wolrdview to excuse lies made by their own team… it just depends upon how “small a matter” you want to reduce the damnable lies down to.
Anyway, it’s already been made clear that McCain is a particularly inept liar. I mean, honestly, being a no-good, two-faced, double-dealing, back-stabbing, larcenous, perverted worm is obviously not so bad a thing in itself as to bar one from the political sphere entirely. However, if one is going to pursue that route, one should at least demonstrate some aptitude for it. McCain comes across time and again as wishing he were clever enough to be as duplicitous as his colleagues, but ultimately having to resort to petty demagoguery to get his way.

Posted by: Monolycus | Feb 24 2008 5:54 utc | 4

Not to mention a carpetbagger. He moved to Arizona and married into a rich and influential family who helped secure him the Republican nomination for representative in a heavily Republican district.
I also recall the swift-boating that McCain got from the Republican machinery when he was threatening Bush’s coronation, er I mean nomination in 2000: on the eve of the influential South Carolina primaries, voters received phone calls reporting unsubstantiated rumors that McCain had had an affair with a black woman.
Will Hillary start spreading rumors that Obama has an illicit half-white bastard child tucked away in a trailer park somewhere in Nebraska?

Posted by: ralphieboy | Feb 24 2008 9:53 utc | 5

WaPo’s Ignatius enorses Obama, shuns McCain: The Value of Newness

Obama has liabilities as a candidate, but his inexperience paradoxically may actually bolster one of his core arguments — that he would give America a fresh start.

Posted by: b | Feb 24 2008 11:34 utc | 6

An inexperienced helm guiding a “fresh start” is something you’d desire in a new advertising campaign, instead of a heavily militarized superpower. Wouldn’t you think?

Posted by: Pyrrho | Feb 24 2008 12:22 utc | 7

Pyrrho,
Would you rather chance a fresh start or stick with a familiar dead end?

Posted by: ralphieboy | Feb 24 2008 14:26 utc | 8

Nader announces another presidential bid

Ralph Nader is launching a third-party campaign for president. The consumer advocate made the announcement Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

What, if anything, does this mean?

Posted by: b | Feb 24 2008 14:44 utc | 9

b, yup the hype for O is overdone. I think the only way Clinton loses TX is if they continue to interview Clinton supporters in newspapers and on TV. I have never seen a sample of them without some saying they are voting for her because she is a woman. I think this rightly stimulates others to cast a counter vote. If some Obama supporters only vote for him because they are black, they are either more discrete, or those aren’t the people that usually get interviewed…
I’m from New York, and I never in a million years though she would get elected there (I left a long time ago). So that shows how much I know. She could easily win TX and the whole thing, being the pitiable underdog and all.

Posted by: dacorilitter | Feb 24 2008 18:38 utc | 10

Is backpeddling the same as lying?

Posted by: Monolycus | Feb 26 2008 15:43 utc | 11

I wasn’t thinking, but this
should have gone here…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 27 2008 0:40 utc | 12

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