McCain's Warped Worldview

[depakid]

McCain's campaign is an irrational mix of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that's proving scarily successful with uninformed voters.

The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like reports of the 10 French soldiers killed by a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and the U.S. government's imminent nationalization of much of the American mortgage-lending industry, would seem to deny such a rosy scenario, then that only shows skeptics lack the courage that sustained McCain as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

There you have it encapsulated, the McCain campaign for president, an irrational mélange of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that is proving disturbingly successful with uninformed voters. How else to explain the many millions of Americans who tell pollsters they prefer a continuation of Republican rule when so many of them are losing their homes to foreclosure and the nation is devastated by out-of-control military spending?

The economy is in a downward spiral, the national debt is at an all-time high, the dollar is an international disgrace and inflation in July had the steepest rise in 27 years, driven by oil prices fivefold higher than when George W. Bush invaded the nation with the world's second-largest petroleum reserves.

While the oil-rich Mideast nations we protect refuse to fully open the oil spigots as payback for our military efforts, McCain celebrates Gen. David Petraeus as his No. 1 hero for "victory" in Iraq. Aside from the reality that victory there is now defined as returning to the level of stability provided by Saddam Hussein, who the Bush administration admits had nothing to do with the bin Laden-led terrorists, even that goal requires the cooperation of our former sworn enemies, Iran's ayatollahs.

Presumably McCain envisions a more favorable outcome for Georgia, to which he would commit the unqualified support of the United States with his outrageously overreaching statement that "we are all Georgians." If Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had been in contact with the leader of a nation before and after that nation provoked a war, his campaign would be a shambles. Not so McCain, who is acting as if he is already the elected commander in chief ensconced in a reconstituted neoconservative-dominated White House. By contrast, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been reduced to a blustering bystander.

More: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/95778/mccain%27s_warped_worldview/

[opihimoimoi]

1. The time has finally come when the informed voters will make the diff

scaring the shit outta the GOP and McCeited Crew.

[mckara]

2. Great Analysis!

n/t

[Phredicles]

3. Yep, that about sums it up;

As I've said, this country loves its strong, stupid men.:banghead:

[MasonJar]

4. Perhaps we are Georgians! After all we attacked an innocent country

and killed its innocent civilians just like Georgia did.

[applegrove]

5. McCain is out of touch with economics and admits he has no understanding of it.

I wonder if McCain had an understanding of economics when he used to be for taxes on the rich but was convinced by Phil Gramm and others that his logic was faulty and the only sound economic recourse was to cut taxes on the rich.

Was McCain manipulated? How long has he admitted that he had no understanding of economics? Could be he has no confidence in his own understanding of it and thus makes for an easy patsy for conservative doctrine.