There's another post up from Josh Marshall over at TPM that I find interesting. Josh Marshall (along with Matt Yglesias) is simply the most insightful, sane voice I've found on the blogosphere. He's so consistently cold and intellectual in his analysis that I find this kind of earnest pleading a marked change coming from him.
I don't have a point beyond that, but I do understand his desperation. McCain is an extenuation of Cheney's foreign policy vision, and far too often an extension of George Bush's domestic vision. All of these leftists (some cogent, others not) talking about McCain's "Rovian campaign tactics/message" aren't exaggerating. Look at McCain's new ad. Money quote: "Hot chicks dig Obama." It is not unfair to say that if you disliked the executive vision and tone over the Bush/Cheney years than you're very unlikely to enjoy a McCain presidency.
The stakes are high. If, after eight years of Bush, we cannot substantively repudiate his vision of leadership, then paraphrasing Josh from yesterday, we have gone very far astray.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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It's amazing just how unhinged McCain seems to be. I know that he has to run hard to the right to shore up the conservative base, but man. He seems to be living in a different world.
The media has been doing a bit better in pointing out when things that McCain says are out-and-out lies, but I'd like to see more emphesis on the fact that his proposals are insane and will make all the worst aspects of the Bush years even worse than that. It isn't even a question of "reasonable people can disagree on the issues." McCain is not simply on the wrong side of most issues, he seems to have landed on the crazy side.
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