In article <4i6mc019hcjfr3tnsgiq047j2h05k9brcu@4ax.com>,
John Forrest Tomlinson <usenetremove@jt10000.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:26:06 GMT, Howard Kveck <YOURhoward@h-
> SHOESbomb.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <cadqbr$gue@dispatch.concentric.net>,
> > Richard Adams <ackthpt@concentric.net> wrote:
> >
>
> >> John McCain for VP? Nope nope nope, but he sure looks
> >> better as a president then Dubya, as time goes by.
> >>
> >
> > I always thought McCain could be a bit of a hot-head,
> > and, while I still think that, I now think he'd be
> > unlikely to something stupid when he was pissed. No
> > lashing out like "make some heads roll" Bush.
>
> I disagree with a lot of McCain's politics (except
> regarding international security) but the thing I like A
> LOT about him is honesty. He's principaled and emotional
> and doesn't just try to spin things his way. Compare him
> to G. W. Bush and the Bush administration. It's night
> and day.
>
> JT
The "principaled" part of that is what makes him a not-so-
good "politician", at least as we see what that is right
now. I do agree with your take on him, though. With the
Bush admin., politics takes precedence over policy 100%
of the time.
From Paul Krugman
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16911): "According to
people who observed him in Texas, Karl Rove is a devotee
of Machiavelli, and particularly of The Prince . And as
Phillips points out, "Twenty-first-century American
readers of The Prince may feel that they have stumbled on
a thinly disguised Bush White House political memo." For
Machiavelli's book was all about how to gain and hold
power, not about what to do with it."
--
tanx, Howard
"Copper will never be gold" Shellac
remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?
