Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching—that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has—at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity—undermined the country and its ideals? Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
This is a very careful, well-considered evaluation of the two candidates, and well-written to boot. McCain supporters won't agree with the bottom line, but as the campaign has gone on, even staunch conservatives have recognized that McCain is erratic and lacks a presidential temperament. His most cynical and desperate move was his appointment of Sarah Palin as his number two without, apparently, even the most cursory of vetting. In contrast, as even that hard-line neocon Charles Krauthammer noted, Obama has a first-class intelligence and a first-class temperament. McCain has neither, as the New Yorker pointed out.
