Second Quote of the Day
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I really thought that the quote from President Obama below would take the cake, but Time writer Joe Klein deserves some kudos for this one:
"To put it as simply as possible, McCain--and his cohorts--are trying to score political points against the President in the midst of an international crisis. It is the sort of behavior that Republicans routinely call "unpatriotic" when Democrats are doing it.
I would never question John McCain's patriotism, no matter how misguided his sense of the country's best interests sometimes seems. His behavior has nothing to do with love of country; it has everything to do with love of self."
I mean, goddamn.
I think McCain's selfishness has been flying under the radar because of the incredibly seditious comments from Cheney, whose loyalty has NEVER been to anything but the Untidy State of Cheney.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that amuses me is that the senators and congressmen can scream like apes and throw feces all they want --no one thinks that what they're saying is worth a pile of campaign promises -- Obama knows the only statements about international affairs that count are his. Which is why he -- almost unique among politicos -- actually thinks before he speaks. They try to pretend they don't know that. They also are planting stories with their bitch-boy journalists about how "campaign promises are ALWAYS kept, but Obama is failing to keep his." Do they think ANYONE out here believes that, regardless of the terribly Alzheimer-like short attention span of the American Public.
I guess I have to give away away the fact that I actually read those books others of the 60's just displayed, but Herman Hesse really summed up what seems to be going on: "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."