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Monday, October 20, 2008

AI's fruity hack smitten

4 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...: Leadership is changing the parameters of a country's comfort zone? Sure, that can be part of leadership. Does this Yale Idiot even bother to ask himself if it matters to where The Leader is Leading?
The "Elite" is dense with the irrational.; 10/20/2008 9:54 PM
Tecumseh said...: Zaky goes gaga and all wobbly in the knees when talking about the Pinko Messiah. Even Pepe may blush at the hosannahs (or maybe not -- is there an upper limit to his Juche-like adulation?)

That said, Zaky's analysis of Mac's prowess when it comes to economics is right on the money:

To watch McCain address the current economic crisis is to see a man out of step with his time. His responses have been a recitation of old slogans—cut taxes, limit the government, cut spending—that are largely irrelevant to today's problems. Does anyone really believe that tackling earmarks will get credit markets functioning? In some ways, McCain's intellectual fatigue reflects the exhaustion of the ideological revolution begun by Reagan and Thatcher. The country needs fresh thinking that is ready to accept new facts and new ideas. It's a new world out there.

I can't argue with that -- much as I admire Ronnie, even he, if he were in his prime, would agree one needs new ideas every other decade or so, especially at a singularity like now. Of course, I disagree with the implied corollary -- that those putative "new ideas" inevitably mean a rehash of Das Kapital, circa 1848 (which is what Pepe & his friends really mean when they talk about "change").

While at it, JJ and AA, can you really disagree with this criticism:

McCain's problem is not only one of substance but perhaps more crucially of temperament. Throughout the campaign, he has been volatile and impulsive. He moves suddenly and unpredictably—one day suspending his campaign, the next urging that the chairman of the SEC be fired, the third blaming Democrats for the economic crisis.

Kind of spastic, no? That said, we are saddled with Mac. I'm still sad to see there wasn't any better choice in the primaries this year (is that really so?), but one needs to keep a stiff upper lip, and play the card one has been dealt. But do you really expect me to ululate, Pepe-like, while at it?; 10/20/2008 10:19 PM
Mr roT said...: AI, your ululations will reach high Cs when Kerry and Powell are sworn in.; 10/20/2008 10:26 PM
Tecumseh said...: Oh, man, oh, man.; 10/20/2008 10:47 PM

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