A Knight in Dragonland

BJ Stone asks … what the hell happened to John McCain?
Answer – hubris, the same tragic flaw that felled Achilles in the Iliad.
John McCain is no Achilles. He didn’t stand a chance against the overwhelming power of his own ego.

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I’m still watching the presidential debate, but my jaw dropped earlier and I had to post on this …
Did anyone else hear John McCain acknowledge that the Bush administration supported the torture of prisoners? He cited his opposition to the torture of prisoners as an example of an area where he opposed President Bush.
D’oh!!!
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What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen — paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It’s a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity [...]

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What does it say about your presidential campaign when Karl Rove, he of the black “love child” rumors during the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary, thinks you’ve gone too far?

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A “culture of ethical failure” pervades the Bush administration. This time those words were used to describe the atmosphere at the Interior Department, where the departmental inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, recently reported astonishing levels of corruption. A section of the department in charge of collecting oil & gas royalties indulged in a [...]

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This was about marketing not governing; hiring for appearance not competence. And they did it – without apparent irony – on the anniversary of Katrina as another hurricane threatens. From from being a reversal of the Bush administration’s worst instincts, McCain seems intent on recreating it – as farce.
Andrew Sullivan
We have had two big presidential [...]

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In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.

John McCain

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Ha!  Yeah, right.
I love this analogy from 2 Dinar (with a Hat Tip to Andrew Sullivan):
I don’t know about you, but I’m embarrassed when the president of the US, allegedly the most “can-do” nation in the world, repeatedly goes to the Saudis and begs for increases in oil production to sustain our ridiculous habit. Just [...]

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One of the main criticisms I’ve heard from Republicans (and Clintonistas, for that matter) regarding Barack Obama is that he offers charisma and flowery rhetoric but little in the way of substance. His world-view is naive, and the change he offers is overflowing with hyperbole. That’s complete bull in my opinion, but the [...]

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Andrew Sullivan has been on a roll lately. Here’s a great analysis of McCain’s Iraq strategy from the Daily Disher.
If McCain is going to give us straight talk – one thing the Bush administration has been completely unable to do – and believes that Iraq should remain a permanently integrated part of a [...]

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