Sunday, July 20, 2008
JM and BO
Andrew Sullivan's prose always soothes my reading nerves frayed from reading too much "clever" reportage that's convoluted and neither particularly clever nor insightful and often misleading or packed with messages from an agenda.  So now I feel much better about the 11/4/08 election.  In an article in today's London Times, he says the differences between GWB, McCain and Obama are really a "question of presidential temperament" more than policy or anything they might actually do.
There is little doubt that a President McCain would have more hawkish instincts, would be quicker on the trigger than the cool, conciliatory Obama. However, Obama’s readiness to use military force in Pakistan and commitment to the Afghan war does not bespeak a Jimmy Carter-style liberalism either.
They're both too political and disingenuous for my taste but I suppose that's an inevitable part of the make-up of a person who's willing to run for the office.  We aren't marrying the guy after all.

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 7:24 PM, July 20, 2008:
I refuse to read Andrew Sullivan ever since the pics of the pyramid of naked men at Abu Graib scrambled his brains. How he can say that it's a difference of temperament between the most left, appeasing junior member of the senate with nothing to his name except a couple of autobiographies [two autobiographies at 47!!] and John McCain who supported the surge to name just one thing, when it was not politically advantageous to do so, is just more of the wishful thinking that is the hallmark of Sullivan's writing. He is completely controlled by his emotions. Better to spend the time on Alan Sullivan.

Try this article for a more realistic view of Backtrack Obama.
 

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Blogger jau — at 2:33 AM, July 21, 2008:
I *do* read Alan S. every day, often more than several times a day, always with interest and enthusiasm. I'm afraid I don't seem him as realistic about Obama, however, but completely irrational. He started from a position of utter distaste which is of course entirely his right but any hope I had that he would bring his unique wordsmithing to the subject were dashed when he freaked out over Michelle's purple dress and shiny black belt, and nothing has gotten any better as time goes on. Alas.
 

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Blogger ligneus — at 9:56 PM, July 22, 2008:
From Commentary Magazine a critique of Andrew Sullivan's article.
 

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