Believe it or not, I came across this on a football message board. I was very impressed at how perceptive and dead on accurate this description is.
I found this over at BBI on a thread about a McCain mistake being covered up by CBS.Mc Cain's "straight talk" is increasingly being seen as mean spirited.
Hub in IL : 7:38 pm
His ability to serve in a leadership position is playing out in his campaign. He is indeed a maverick who runs in directions in gut level bursts. The problem is he takes a statement by an opponent, distorts it and then re-interprets the distortion it in a knee jerk negative way. This is certainly a favorite republican pundit strategy, but McCain is a presidental candidate and he does pundit poorly. To disagree with him is to be demonized in McCains mind.
Suggesting Obama is willing to lose a war in order to win a campaign is absurd and unbecoming. To distort basic facts time and time again, to react so violently, is exhibiting a single mindedness, which is dangerous for a president in my mind.
The gaffs seem to reveal that McCain is not as focused on foreign affairs as he pretends to be. They are innocent gaffs to be sure, but the distortions or mythic interpretations which accompany them, demonstrate a lack of real familiarity and a lazy and inflexible black and white world view. McCain holds himself up as as objective reality and feels threatened, and over reacts to any disagreement.
This is in keeping with his prior bipartisan service, in which he tries to work across the aisle on bills, but then pulls back when the other side fails to agree completely with his view. McCain frequently fails to accept compromise and often fails to vote for his own co-sponsored bills.
Every day McCain is making me more and more nervous with the idea of him as serving as president, and comfortable voting for Obama.
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