What if McCain Had Won? »
Posted By jovial 2 weeks, 3 days ago in Political Opinion
Article: So far, no 'Obama Sucks' bumper stickers have shown up in Berkley, but it\'s clear that Democratic partisans are significantly less enthusiastic than they were a year ago. Many display classic signs of depression: sadness, insomnia, restlessness, irritability, hopelessness and so forth. Get a grip Dems: how would you feel if John McCain had won the election?
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Grew up In Brooklyn. Joined the Navy in 1976 stayed in 10 years. Aircraft Electronics tech. Worked for Major Govt. contractor then settled in California ...
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jovial2 weeks, 3 days ago
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"John McCain is cantankerous and impulsive, someone who has a reputation for having a short fuse. What would President McCain have done about Iran? (Perhaps bolstered by a Secretary of State Joe Lieberman.) At the least he would have pulled back diplomatically - the high-level talks about Iran's nuclear program wouldn't have happened. But it's more likely the bellicose McCain would have pulled a page from the Bush/Cheney playbook and taken military action, such as a blockade of Iranian oil shipments on the Persian Gulf, bombing suspected Iranian weapons labs, or worse."-
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chevydog2 weeks, 3 days ago
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You know, as someone who voted for McC over candidate O, I sometimes wonder about this. My vote for McC was one for lots of administrative/political experience over basically none. I've worked for and with enough large companies to see what happens when such experience isn't there. For whatever it's worth, I think the public missed on this one.
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Your excerpt above is in a way sort of insulting. It implies that one (in this case McC) cannot overcome whatever his native impulses may be in order to do the job that he would've been selected to do. At least one earlier Prez (Jimmy Carter) was also notoriously hotheaded. I don't recall him going around bombing places. He had the maturity to separate his personal impulses from what was good for the US; I really don't think it behooves anyone to assume that someone who has been around the US govt as long as McC would act immaturely.
Would we have the stimulus package under McC? I don't think so, at least not in the same form. Something may have been necessary for psychological reasons. Good? Bad? Your guess. Prez O's Administration is spinning the numbers as a big success; not unexpected --happens to everyone who's done stimulus stuff. Justify your existence and stuff.
Health care? -- I wonder whether what McC proposed was practical. But I'm also put off by the ideological tone of what Prez O proposes. I kind of think McC would be under pressure to do something, since this is a long-standing problem. Who knows what would have come out? In my mind, I see it as something more practically oriented than the stuff we're discussing now.
Anyway--just one dog's-eye view of an alternate universe.
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bushiesRbonkers2 weeks, 3 days ago
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Many of us recognized the need for an FDR, but by the end of the primary season there was no such candidate. Once the general election was over, we got the best outcome we could expect - a not-McCain-but-not-FDR President. We are long over our disappointment. The newly disappointed are those early Obama supporters who wrote so many of their own expectations on Obama's "blank slate."
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