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Crisis? McCain Will Give You Crisis!
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
Yesterday, John McCain told an audience in Colorado: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression. Georgia, of course. There's soooo much wrong with that statement, as Kevin Drum, Matt Yglesias and Rock Richard all point out. Matt writes: beyond McCain’s seemingly poor memory, the interesting thing is the confusion in terms of high-level concepts. It was ...
When huge stakes meet a small campaign
Political Animal —
... clearly, obviously, transparently right and McCain is wrong.
As Dionne noted, “The smaller this election looks, the easier it will be for the Republicans to run campaigns such as those they orchestrated in 2000 and 1988, in which the particular flaws of candidates take on an exaggerated importance.” The drive, Dionne added, is to “run this election through an Incredible Shrinking Machine.”
That was in April. It looks even more accurate now.
Kevin noted today:
…I suppose this is true of lots of presidential ...
John McCain Revisits Highway 61
Firedoglake —
... Josh Marshall and Kevin Drum have already weighed in today on this unseemly showboating. Says Drum: ...
A no win situation
The Reaction —
... People on the TV tell me that Obama should have canceled his vacation to deal with the Georgia-Russia crisis. Yet these same people would be telling me Obama was presumptions if he had. It's simply maddening. ...
