Notes On The Candidates
Sep. 13th, 2008 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThey say old soldiers make peace-loving politicians because they know first-hand how horrible war is, but this doesn't seem to apply to McCain, who has already- and he's not even in the White House yet- threatened to go to war with Russia. Maybe this is because his military service involved flying above battlefields, not slogging accross them.
I'll say this for Palin: she hasn't pulled strings or called in favours to keep her son out of her holy war.
As for Obama, he's supposed to be hugely intelligent, right? So why in the world did he make that crack about the pig and the lipstick when he- or his minders- should have known that the GOP attack dogs would be all over it? The more I see and hear of him, the flimsier he seems to be.
I'll say this for Palin: she hasn't pulled strings or called in favours to keep her son out of her holy war.
As for Obama, he's supposed to be hugely intelligent, right? So why in the world did he make that crack about the pig and the lipstick when he- or his minders- should have known that the GOP attack dogs would be all over it? The more I see and hear of him, the flimsier he seems to be.
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Date: 2008-09-14 05:20 pm (UTC)Col David "Hack" Hackworth, writing in 2000, described John McCain's "war hero" image as a "very slick publicity campaign that plays on flag, duty, honor and country". Coming from one of the most decorated - and outspoken - soldiers in US history, I tend to trust Hack's opinion