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I think it's cute that McCain uses diversionary reasoning to support a failing campaign. First using Palin to change the focus from him to someone who had not spent millions proposing herself worthy of a presidential bid, then Ike to keep Bush off the floor of the Republican Convention, then the state of U.S. economy to maybe prevent the first scheduled ’08 presidential debate...even his opening comment about Kennedy before addressing the first question of the debate seemed a diversionary tactic. Further, his claim that "tactic" and "strategy" are so different that every intellectual should be appalled by Obama's use of the word seems the antithesis to Clinton defining "is". "Obama doesn't understand," was his mantra. But does McCain understand? He seems real in touch with certain people who are not me.
My dictionary offers as synonyms for the word "tactic" and "strategy" thusly:
Tactic:
approach, course, device, line, manoeuvre, means, method, move, ploy, policy, scheme, strategem, tack, trick, way.
Strategy:
approach, grand design, manoeuvring, plan, planning, policy, procedure, programme, scheme.
I wonder to what extent McCain was "programmed" as a POW. I wonder if years of torture can be overcome. If so, why not torture our enemies? If torture experience can be reasonably cast as a credential for an American presidential bid, what's the big deal? I'd then say break the bones of every imprisoned enemy. Worst case? They become leadership material for their movement if they survive imprisonment. Is that cruel treatment? Making leaders out of enemies?
Ok, maybe it would be bad strategy. Or would the right word be tactic?
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The guy wants to be conversational and Mr. "Straight Talk." He doesn't want to sound scripted. He wants to sound genuine.
He doesn't want to play the game. It's what slew him in 2000. He was the best candidate, he just wouldn't dance for the GOP.
He IS scripted. He is being told EXACTLY what to do and it bugs the crap out of him which shows on his face and in his body language.
He is NOT EVEN close to the best the Repubs had to offer. I see him and Palin as a punt set up to seed a bunch of inevitable "I told you so's" 4 years from now when Mitt gives it a go!
They know what is coming. They know they don't have an answer to it and for them to face a 12th consecutive year of pseudo-control would crush the party. Things are going to be rough for the next four years as an ugly war is tallied and comes to an end. Things will be ugly as other endeavors are explored abroad as economic desparation sets in worldwide. In four years they will be able to reference their favorite sound bytes of this campaign to point fingers and claim, "McCain is now too old to fix things he warned you about. But Mitt and Guliani (prly spelled wrong but I ain't lookin' it up right now!) would love to set the record straight."
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