• Erin

  +2

  Wow. I'm going outside now to see if pigs are flying.

  Posted 9/23/2008 respond (flag)

• bushjrlied

  +1

  palin either is stupid and can't understand the question or she does not listen. either way, she scares the bush jr out of this conservative USAF Veteran.

  Posted 10/4/2008 respond (flag)

When you lose George Will...
Blah3 Feed — ...it's safe to say your campaign is headed due south. Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge ...

George Will Goes Off: McCain May Be Unfit For Presidency
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Conservative columnist George Will turned heads this weekend for savaging John McCain over his "un-presidential" reaction to the economic crisis. "McCain showed his personality this week," Will said, "and made some of us fearful." Now Will has expanded on his comments in Tuesday's Washington Post with an op-ed titled, "McCain Loses His Head." The piece begins: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his ...

George Will Goes Off: McCain May Be Unfit For Presidency
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Conservative columnist George Will turned heads this weekend for savaging John McCain over his "un-presidential" reaction to the economic crisis. "McCain showed his personality this week," Will said, "and made some of us fearful." Now Will has expanded on his comments in Tuesday's Washington Post with an op-ed titled, "McCain Loses His Head." The piece begins: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his ...

George Will? Is That YOU In There?
Hoffmania! — ... Holy crap.

Andrew Cuomo And The Subprime Mortgage Crisis
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Once again, it is time to call shenanigans on one's own side. Just yesterday, Senator McCain reiterated that he wanted SEC Chairman Chris Cox gone and said that he would like to replace Cox with . . . Andrew Cuomo . Is this a "getting a fox to guard the chicken coop" moment? Why, yes . ...

Apparently George Will
Rising Hegemon — Is "in the tank" too: McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people... ...Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — ... Special WATB edition. Another exciting day on Wall Street! And a market correction of another kind. More polling news, here. Getting a little desperate down the stretch. Another lib journalist in the tank for Obama. Rick Davis, liberal. What are they afraid of? Today, McSame is in OH; Obama in FL; Biden in VA.

The George Will Effect
Swampland — Conservative columnist George Will hits McCain with a broadside, all but declaring him temperamentally unfit for office. His column in today's Washington Post concludes: ...

Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos — ... George Will says that the current financial crisis has John McCain acting "like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." And then he really goes after him. ...

George Will Endorsing Barack Obama?
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... It appears that George Will has had enough of John McCain.  Like myself, he’s long been a bitter opponent of McCain-Feingold and thought Sarah Palin an unimpressive — if thus far politically shrewd — choice for vice president.  McCain’s odd reaction to the recent bad news from Wall Street, though, has apparently been the last straw . Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without ...

"The most leftist administration in American history?"
Hit & Run — That's the question posed about the late George W. Bush era, by George F. Will: The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain's party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? The New Deal never acted so precipitously on such a scale. Treasury Secretary Paulson, asked about conservative complaints that his rescue program amounts to socialism, said, essentially: This is not socialism, this is ...

A McCain Sampler
Opinionator — George Will, writing in his column for The Washington Post, says that during the financial crisis John McCain “is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high.” Will later adds : Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either. ...

A Third Class Temperament
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — George Will sums up McCain: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. And Bush Republicanism: The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. ...

Hot Head
Newshoggers.com — ... By Ron Beasley Did George Will just say John McCain is too hot headed to be President?  Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. He goes on to talk about McCain's shoot from the hip reaction last week and then concludes with this: Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial ...

John McCain: Queen of Hearts
Comments from Left Field — ... In what is the must read of the day, George Will positively eviscerates John McCain and his knee jerk reactions in the wake of the Wall Street catastrophe. ...

Will on McCain’s Temperament and the Bailout (and Some Thoughts by me)
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... In his WaPo column (McCain Loses His Head) takes McCain to task for one of his early responses to the financial crisis last week, his calling for SEC Chairman Chris Cox’s firing: ...

A Troubled George Will
JustOneMinute — George Will smacks John McCain: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not ...

McCain snaps. . . . and George Will notices
Martini Revolution — ... As we’ve noted, McCain’s rhetoric of late has become increasingly disjointed and unhinged, and it is drawing attention from conservative commentator George Will: ...

George Will thinks McCain isn't ready to be president
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — As a leading conservative writer and thinker, this is big. Note particularly the paragraph in which Will talks about McCain's "impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people." Will is talking about McCain's temper, but he's also talking between the lines about Sarah Palin. I suspect George Will is disgusted by McCain's choice of Palin, and and it's evidence, in both Will's mind and ours, of a certain hotheaded recklessness in McCain. He's a gambler, he goes with his gut, he's willing to risk it all - his reputation or your economy - all on whimsy. And America can't ...

At Least John Will Always Have Rush
The Moderate Voice — George has left the reservation and for good measure has slammed the door on the way out. But at least John will always have Rush. ...

Bleccchhh
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... Noted Islamocommiefrancodefeatohomofascist George Will says McInsane "loses his head: -- Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. ...

George Will: McCain “not suited to the presidency”
HorsesAss.Org — Ouch. Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either. 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 ...

Unreadiness vs. Temperment?
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — George Will: "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?" ...

Losing George Will
Political Animal — ... in his critique of the presidential campaign, describing Barack Obama as "presidential, calm, and unflustered," and slamming John McCain for "substituting vehemence for coherence," and engaging in "unpresidential behavior." Will added, "John McCain showed his personality this week, and it made some of us fearful." Today, Will expounded on this point in his ...

George Will, Obamacon?
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Did anyone notice that Will's column today excoriating McCain's willfulness essentially endorses Obama as the lesser of two evils? It starts this way: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. And ends with this: 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 ...

MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News — ... not This One - Megan McArdle [image] (Prematurely) Grading the Bailout - Equity Private, Dealbreaker [image] The Obama-Ayers Connection - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air [image] Obama vs. Biden - Yuval Levin, The Corner (NRO) OTHER NEWS SOURCES: Bill Clinton Says He Understands Palin's Appeal - AP RSC Pitches 'Market-Based' Alternative to Bailout - The Hill Paulson, Bernanke Urge Swift Action - Wall Street Journal McCain Loses His Head - George Will, Washington Post Bernanke Testimony Paulson ...

The best part
The Reaction — ... Finally, we have a piece by, no, not a blogger, but an honest to goodness...how was it Cornfed Wanker put it? Oh, right... "professional media" type: George Will. ...

McCain's Legitimate Attack
Swampland — McCain has a new ad (see below) attacking Obama "and his liberal allies" for failing to lead in the midst of the current financial markets crisis. As many have noted, including George Will and the ...

You've lost that lovin' feelin
SteveAudio — (George Will & crew on ABC's Roundtable) While not losing sight of the hackery and quackery surrounding the Wall St. Bailout (Authorization to Use Financial Force, or AUFF), let's remember that there's still a Presidential election looming. In good election news, John McCain has lost George Will: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his inner ...

McCain's Executive Incompetence
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The final two paragraphs from George Will's column today are worth highlighting again: Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either. It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is ...

Pompous, Self-Serving Sons-of-Bitches for John McCain
The Reality-Based Community — ... , too. On the other hand, the original PSSSoB, George Will , isn't so sure. So McCain has firmed up his support among the agents of intolerance, and lost the Republicans who like to think of themselves as grown-ups. He's well on track to losing not just the election and his honor, but his dignity as well. If that makes you feel sorry for him, just remember: McCain has always been the most pompous, most self-righteous, most self-serving son-of-a-bitch in Washington. I know that's saying a lot, but you could look it up.

Pete Cenedella: Disaster Movie 2: If You Liked the Patriot Act, You'll Love BAILOUT!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... That would be, say it with me people, like putting lipstick on a pig. No, the Democrats need to realize that this is the moment around which all their electoral aspirations can coalesce. This is the moment when they can reclaim populism from the Republicans. If they dig in their heels and insist on a fundamental restructuring of the focus of this plan, they will make the case that they are the party of Americanism, the Republicans are the Socialists. No? Look at what George Will had to say today: ...

George Will: John McCain is losing his head
Crooks and Liars —   McCain’s Media is finally waking up to the fact that despite his impressive biography and (now defunct) honesty and straightforwardness, John McCain has some serious character flaws. WaPo: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.  Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial ...

Obama over McCain?
Daimnation! — It would seem George Will is leaning that way--the conclusion of a rather forensic column: 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? Mark C.

Microblog 2008-09-23
Overlawyered — @carney John Carney on short selling “I want a personal uptick rule. No one can be mean to me unless it’s preceded by good news about me.” # Megan McArdle on the run on money market funds, thanks @petewarden Atlantic # George Will implicitly endorsing Obama? Sure looks like it WaPo # Kevin LaCroix keeps a tally of credit crisis investor lawsuits D&O Diary thanks @lilyhill # Moose causes 9-car pileup right here in the NYC suburbs, Sarah come help White Plains ...

Dishonor Is Honor
TPMCafe — ... But credit where credit is due to George Will, who wrote in yesterday's WP of McCain's "fact-free slander," his "pitting people who agree with him against those who are 'corrupt' or 'betray the public's trust,' two categories that seem to be exhaustive," his "boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes"--all in all, a "dismaying temperament" which makes it "arguable" that McCain is not "suited to the presidency." ...

Conservative Doubts About the New McCain
The Moderate Voice — ... “Under the pressure of the financial crisis,” writes conservative icon George Will, “one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.” ...

Good thing Mittens wasn't McCain's veep choice
Daily Kos — Whether the finance crisis is as terrible as we're told or not, fact is the nation is in economic turmoil. We've seen Obama, cool and collected. Perhaps he's a little thin on details, but he projects reassurance. No one doubts Biden's ability to handle these kinds of situations. On the GOP side? McCain is flailing, as no less a conservative than George Will has said: Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama [...] ...

Danielle Celena Belton: The George Will Revolt
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... George Will is through with the Straight Talk Express. Especially as it evolves into the Befuddled Talk Express. Will is exasperated with McCain and writes as much in his column Tuesday. It's a vigorous literary battering that never lets up as Will exerts his frustration and disappointment with McMaverick. ...

BuzzFlash Mailbag for September 24, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either. It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Mr. Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that Mr. 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? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content... TWIGA Subject: Republican Platform on Bailouts ...

McCain Seeks To Regain The Offensive
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The poll followed a growing chorus of criticism from the left and right of McCain's erratic response to the turmoil gripping Wall Street. On Tuesday, conservative columnist George F. Will wrote: ...

McCain Seeks To Regain The Offensive
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The poll followed a growing chorus of criticism from the left and right of McCain's erratic response to the turmoil gripping Wall Street. On Tuesday, conservative columnist George F. Will wrote: ...

McCain Gambles In Effort To Regain The Offensive
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The poll followed a growing chorus of criticism from the left and right of McCain's erratic response to the turmoil gripping Wall Street. On Tuesday, conservative columnist George F. Will wrote: ...

Whose Ego?
The Mahablog — ... For example, there was George Will’s highly publicized criticism that McCain lacks the temperament to be president. “Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama,” Will said. Ouch. I bet that punched McCain right in the ego. Rookie, huh? I’ll show him! ...

Mitchell Bard: It's the Democracy, Stupid: Campaigns of McCain and Palin Show How They Would Govern
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... to know how McCain would govern? Just look at his campaign. Since it became clear that Obama would be his party's nominee, McCain has conducted his campaign in a manner that no American should be proud of. He has lied and played games, treating the election like it was a schoolyard football game with no referees rather than a civic process to decide the course of the next four years. He has been widely derided, including by many conservatives (even noted conservative George Will blasted McCain on Tuesday), for his shameless dishonesty and political game-playing. ...

Curbing Their Enthusiasm
The Caucus — ... have weakened conservatives’ initial embrace and enthusiasm for the vice-presidential nominee. As if Senator John McCain already hadn’t faced a rough week, which started with conservative columnist George Will bemoaning the Republican candidate’s positions on the economic bailout and suggesting Mr. McCain may be unfit to be president. Now, conservatives have never warmed to Senator McCain this time around, but they were wowed by Mr. McCain’s selection of Ms. Palin as his running mate and at first, circled the wagons to defend her, despite her lack of foreign policy ...

Nice Debate Guys-- Now Back To Palin, The Real Issue
DownWithTyranny! — ... The Times was similar: "The drip, drip, drip of bad reviews keeps falling this week against Gov. Sarah Palin, whose two-day segments of interviews with CBS’ Katie Couric have weakened conservatives’ initial embrace of and enthusiasm for the vice-presidential nominee. As if Senator John McCain already hadn’t faced a rough week, which started with conservative columnist George Will bemoaning the Republican candidate’s positions on the economic bailout and suggesting Mr. McCain may be unfit to be president." ...

George Will: Palin Is Not Qualified
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... it was announced: "The man who would be the oldest to embark on a first presidential term has chosen as his possible successor a person of negligible experience." One week ago, Will penned a blistering op-ed about McCain, accusing him of practicing "fact-free slander," holding a "Manichaean worldview," and "characteristically substituting vehemence for coherence." ...

George Will: Palin Is Not Qualified
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... it was announced: "The man who would be the oldest to embark on a first presidential term has chosen as his possible successor a person of negligible experience." One week ago, meanwhile, Will penned a blistering op-ed about McCain, accusing him of practicing "fact-free slander," holding a "Manichaean worldview," and "characteristically substituting vehemence for coherence." ...

Health questions go mainstream?
Political Animal — ... ). 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. Though CNN and MSNBC wouldn't run a political ad with doctors questioning McCain's ...

Off the Fence: Voting Obama
The Moderate Voice — ... As George Will wrote Sept. 23: “Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.” Will’s indictment even made McCain-backer ...

Jerry Weissman: The Beat (It) Goes On: A Conservative Stampede
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Item: Last month, George Will, the dean of conservative writers, wrote in the Washington Post, "McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency." ...

The Repulican's Robocall
democracyarsenal.org — ... We see that Republican foreign policy leaders cannot in good conscience support their own candidate's foreign policy.  Most of them even cite McCain's reckless behavior, specifically saying Obama is the one that they want to handle a crises.  Whether it be his reaction to the financial crisis; the outbreak of ...

Will has no use for McCain
Political Animal — WILL HAS NO USE FOR MCCAIN.... It's probably fair to say conservative columnist George Will has been thoroughly unimpressed by John McCain of late. He's blasted McCain for "behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Will has lamented McCain's "dismaying temperament." He's described McCain as "childish," "shallow," and suffering from a "Manichaean worldview." And today, Will labeled McCain " ...