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| McCain was a hawk on Iraq VoorArgument1 #6972 John McCain was a hawk on Iraq, stating that Saddam certainly had WMDs, the war would be fast, easy, and with few casualties, and that we would be welcomed as liberators. | |
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Citerend uit: Peter Norvig
Geciteerd door: David Price 8:25 PM 5 October 2008 GMT
Citerank: (3) 6785Suggestions of scandal and cover-ups of scandalsSarah Palin's bid to be Vice-President in 2008 was hit by suggestions of several scandals and cover-ups of scandals.1198CE71, 6787Long tenure in Washington undercuts message of changeJoe Biden's long tenure in Washington undercuts Obama's message of change.1198CE71, 6969Strongest Republican on climate changeJohn McCain has been one of the strongest Republicans on climate change.1198CE71
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"What are the pros and cons for McCain? Cons: McCain faces two main challenges. First, some may disagree with parts of his record. On Iraq, he was a hawk, stating that Saddam certainly had WMDs, the war would be fast, easy, and with few casualties, and that we would be welcomed as liberators. On the economy, he has a history of deregulation of financial markets, the stain of the Keating Five scandal, campaign manager Rick Davis's lobbying money from Fannie Mae an Freddie Mac, and his seeming out of touch by not being able to remember how many houses he has and saying "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" the day before the biggest collapse in 70 years. Second, some have criticized his temperament. He has an advantage over Obama in experience, but is McCain too angry? Or too quick to make a decision from the gut, rather than waiting to analyze it? Too much like George W. Bush? Again, we'll ignore partisan critics from the other side. But serious arch-conservatives such as George F. Will have expressed concern that "Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. ... It is not Barack Obama." and "the more one sees of [McCain's] 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." and concludes "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?" Similarly, Elizabeth Drew, who wrote the very positive biography Citizen McCain, now believes that McCain has thrown away his reputation, that "there was a disturbingly erratic side of McCain's nature. There's a certain lack of seriousness in him. And he does not appear to be a reflective man, or very interested in domestic issues. One cannot imagine him ruminating late into the night about, say, how to educate and train Americans for the new global and technological challenges." |
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