Hi guys, I've never done a diary before and am somewhat new to Kos. Hope I'm doing this right. I'm a rabid dem hailing from Raleigh, NC proudly supporting Obama this year! In fact, I'm rocking the yard signs and double bumper stickers!
The ground here is nuts and you'll never believe the energy around here that may just net us Kay Hagan over Dole for the Senate but possibly even electoral votes for Obama!
So, I wanted to forward this article that is breaking in Tuesday's Washington Post to the community here as it's pretty fascinating....and from an unpredictable source.
Apologies if it's been posted before! (Or if I funk up the diary...)
McCain Loses His Head
By George F. Will
Tuesday, September 23, 2008; Page A21
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential"
In any case, McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people.
Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.
It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed? "