ABC Roundtable: McCain's "Unpresidential" Response & Age Issue

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Conservative George Will calls McCain's response to the economic crisis "unpresidential" stating that "McCain left many of us fearful," while Sam Donaldson discusses how McCain has "gotten his talking points all mixed up" and raises concern about McCain's age.

"It was two days after the he said the fundamentals of the economy were strong. His talking points have gotten all mixed up. And I think the question of age is back on the table" Donaldson said.



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I was asking: "OK, who are you, and what have you done with the real George Will?"

K&R.

"John McCain showed his personality this week and made some of us... fearful."

wow. :wow:

We need to shout these out BOLDLY

From Conservative analyst George Will:

"John McCain, who as usual, substituting vehemence for coherence, said "Let's FIRE somebody."

"It was un-Presidential behavior by a Presidential aspirant."

"John McCain showed his personality this week and made some of us... fearful."

We should be forwarding this to every conservative or leans-conservative acquaintance we have.

Exact quote from George Will

Hard hitting segment, no doubt.

This asshole will get us all killed if he is installed into the Whitehouse.

He doesn't know his ass from the toilet seat.

damaging. I think the Maverick is down for the count. Of course, Al Qaida, or the Taliban, or Hamas will pull his chestnuts out of the fire come October. I'm sure they've got a doozy planned just before the election, and our attention will once again turn to national security.

These are not progressive bloggers who already were saying how reckless and dangerous McCain is. But, even conservative pundits are saying publicly how "unpresidential" McCain is. And, of course, there IS the age issue which is quite concerning, especially in times like these.

know that national security/foreign policy issues are going to even save him. He flubbed the business with Spain earlier this week too..confusing it with Latin America. He is just losing it on all fronts.

a bumbling idiot managed to get good debate reviews just for showing up. Perhaps I'm a little more skeptical than you, but I hope for our sake that the rightwing pundits continue to take him to the woodshed. The ultra-conservatives have never been in love with McCain, and I think his performance last week just reinforced their distrust of him.

Bush tanked in the first debate and it allowed Kerry to tie him after trailing in the polls by 9 points a week prior.

:toast:

Planes cost money. Tanks cost money. Bombs cost money. Guns cost money. Bullets, armor, humvees, telephones, radios, computers... they all cost money.

Soldiers cost money.

How are we going to protect America if we don't have any money?

to be critical of McCain!

Thanks for this!! nt

us in a round table just always irks me - they have no idea and are clueless about the issues themselves

young people talking out their asses, when they don't know better, irks me too.

and just this bunch of old guys got to me since I felt none of them have a clue - most of these commentators don't know anything -

Donaldson, Roberts, Will, and even the "young" Stephanopolos, have all failed us. The story of the financial collapse of the US economy has been there for my entire life. The press, which is supposed to spend their time holding those in power accountable, instead spend their careers lurching from O.J. Simpson to Clinton/Lewinsky to Sarah Palin's grandchild. The huge trade deficits, budget deficits, the increasing imbalance between rich and poor, the real impact of deregulation, all of this has been evident for years. It's like our economy has had some sort of festering lesion on its face, and the collective response of the press corps has been to ignore it and hope it goes away, until one day there's this devastating diagnosis of malignant melanoma and we find that the economy has to undergo chemotherapy, and now they begin to connect the dots.

Just like with global warming, health care and so many other problems. The old people in the old media have been AWOL.

Old. These folks are old. The older generation that has been in charge has run up a huge credit card bill, and are about to retire and hand the debt to their kids and grandkids: "I'm moving to Florida! Enjoy your austerity."

and McCain stoked that fear.

One fear mongering too far I expect!

Fire Cox? That's his answer? Even George Will is smart enough to understand that firing Cox does nothing to end the slow-motion collapse of the global banking and finance industries. But that's all McCain had to offer: scapegoating some guy nobody ever heard of.

Clearly George Will is deeply troubled by McCain for good reasons. That's a serious problem for McCain because there are a lot of conservative older folks who listen to Will.

Donaldson bravely tried to mention the elephant in the room, that McCain is not very much in control of his faculties. There is a long tradition of the media covering up physical disabilities of the powerful as well as ethical disabilities. But when we have a case where the 72-year-old candidate, who would be the oldest person to ever take office, is showing strong and frequent signs of dementia -- serious signs, but just the occasional brain farts we all have -- will the media cover for him on that?

One scenario is that this "crisis" (whether it be manufactured or real) may be enough to cause the media to no cover for McCain. If the media believes that our economic system is truly at a critical point, they may be less willing to excuse McCain's daily crazy-old-coot routine as the charming behaviors of a maverick.

It's just now dawning on them that maybe McCain isn't exactly the brightest bulb on the tree? No shit, Sherlocks.

"John McCain showed his personality this week and it made some of us f..fearful."

George Will is a smart man. Unfortunately, that puts him in a way too exclusive club in his party.

But a lot of other idiots listen to him.

George Will is a supreme idiot and has been for years, the only thing he has going for him is he is a Cubs fan. But even he cant shill for John McCain anymore.

What next? Does Rove come out and endorse Obama? Holy crap batman, McSame is going down in flames and (his) people are pretending they don't see the extinguisher.

distinguish himself as a leader on the financial crisis. NBC roundtable spent just a few minutes on politics and gave Obama no kudos nor called McCain out on his 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong' mantra. Stark contrast to ABC. WTF?

I couldnt believe it. It's like NBC lives on a different planet.

He's been on my nerves lately--always ragging on Obama and never a bad thing to say about McSame. I don't think he was a good pick for debate moderator--he's no Tim Russert.

With SO many conservatives (and I don't mean Hannity, etc. I don't even know what to call them) are coming out here and there against McCain on issues, one has to wonder if the word from "the top" is that the "fix" is in . . . for Obama. With the disasters befalling us even the conservatives are scared. And I don't mean a real "fix" but a backing off of some of the Republican typical cheating, etc.

Here's another video that's on the same line of thought...It scares the shit out of me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX5u69hmzY&feature=related

It's amazing how, with no viable GOP ticket in the race, Cokie Roberts becomes an objective journalist.

McCain was simply awful this week. As for Mrs. Palin, people stopped talking about her when Charlie Gibson interviewed.

All those talking head have always patronized to the GOP candidate in the past. They were bu$h media.

McCain is in deep trouble if he lost Cokie and Sam.

Just WOW!

Time some of these talking heads started saying what we all can see so plainly. McCain? Presidential? :crazy:

Is it raining toads yet?

I agree that "age is back on the table." Not that it's a bad thing to be 72, but it's a very bad thing to be demented while running for president. Age is not the issue, but mental status. McCain is clearly failing.

that's exactly what I came away with this morning.

Truth when it hurts, I guess

candidate. All the PUG heads speaking of McCain's poor response.

The man is old. The man needs to retire. Don;t most people reture at 65.

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Sorry, it had to be said. You know you're all thinking the same thing.

...is "too cerebral" and he "needs to be more forceful" and "less like a college professor."

:wtf: is wrong with these people????????????

for coherence"!

It's been this way the whole time with mccain..only now it's people's money we're talkin' about and the collapse of the system.

rothchild and trump look even more stupid right now.

But honestly, I find it hard to be the slightest bit sympathetic to people like Will. I could have seen this trainwreck coming from a long way away!

If he's criticizing McCain... McCain has got issues.

I just hope my dad saw that interview.

I'm seeing him soon. I have no idea if we can talk politics now and stay civil. He's been pretty much blindly Republican all my life, even when everything he has to be greatful for he got by the hard work of Democrats and Unions.

The thought of a child of mine turning out . . . *shiver* Republican . . . is more than I can bear. "Oh dear God, where did I fail?"

Fortunately, they're both on the good side.

I sympathize with all you DU'ers who have Republican parents (or offspring) to contend with.

Republican even the word itself makes me recoil with revulsion.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n03a7cLf0M

Republicans can become Dems when they become enlightened--educated either by a formal education or by just living and learning. But how can you go from Dem to Repub without a lobotomy? ;)

I'm a former Republican so I can talk. I started to think for myself in my 40s and the Dems made more sense based on what I'd seen in my life up until then. If only other Repubs would stop following blindly and start to wake up.

Obama. McCain is being seen for what he really is, a senile man with delusions of grandeur. His choice of VP just makes it more apparent that he puts McCain first and Country last. McCain deregulated and screwed the electorate in the process.

McSame must be doing REALLY badly in Republican eyes, for them to have said what they did. :wow:

McCain looks like a confused old man, clinging stubbornly to an old way of thinking while the world has moved on.

Barracking (Aussie slang for cheering on) for Barack!

I think this is a great video and I hope this message catches on.

Just as an aside, I don't know which one has the scarier hair, Donaldson with his rug or Cokie with her ghostbusters-demon 'do!

...in the White House they've had their heads buried under the sand. McCain has had me scared since last January

I almost can't believe they were being honest for a change.