John McAlice in Wonderland is Unqualified for the Presidency
John Sidney McAlice in Wonderland took his audience on a fantasy trip that indicates that he is not grounded in reality and is unfit for the presidency.
I couldn't write it any better than the following commentaries via Cursor.org:
From Economists for Obama: "McCain today gave his dream world speech, framed as what he "would hope to have achieved" by 2013. The vision is so absurdly rosy that a reporter told him to his face that it sounded like a "magic carpet ride."
"The coverage I've seen thus far has focused on his preposterously sunny vision for Iraq, with American troops coming from an Iraq War that has been "won." But his imagined economic scenario is equally deluded and at points directly at odds with his own program.
"For example, in McCain's Magic Carpet Ride 2013, "More small businesses offer their employees health plans." As I explained in an earlier post, however, the entire point of McCain's health proposals is to kill the existing system of employer-provided health care by making employees pay taxes on their health benefits. So McCain's fantasy is not just improbable--it's exactly contrary to what his proposal is designed to achieve.
"McCain also fails to mention that the Tax Policy Center's analysis, reviewed by Jonah in a previous post, shows that enacting McCain's tax proposal would slash government revenues by $578 billion in 2013. How huge a figure is this? It's more than the entire domestic discretionary budget of $571 billion projected by the Congressional Budget Office for 2013!
"Where would all that money to pay for our Magic Carpet Ride come from? Either from a radical downsizing of Medicare, Social Security, and the military (not, unsurprisingly, part of McCain's fantasy), or an explosion in government debt. If a President McCain tries to take on us on that Magic Carpet Ride, we better enjoy the trip, because our grandkids will be paying for it.
From Crooks and Liars: "McCain declared that he “would hope to have achieved” a drawdown of most U.S. forces by the end of his first term in 2013. But given McCain’s unbroken record of error of forecasting when it comes to Iraq, Americans should rightly view his new 10 year prediction with suspicion.
"And with a total suspension of disbelief. In a speech that was more hypothetical thought exercise than policy address, McCain did his best John Lennon impersonation and asked Americans to “imagine all the people” (or at least most of them) back from Iraq by the end of his first term...
"From visions of a rapid U.S. victory and Americans being greeted liberators to finding weapons of mass destruction and turning the corner, John McCain was tragically mistaken each and every time.
A few excerpts:
“ 'I remain confident that we will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.' (John McCain, June 11, 2003.)
“ 'Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?' (John McCain, responding to assertion by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto that “many argue the conflict isn’t over,” June 11, 2003. )
“ 'We’re either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months.' (John McCain, November 12, 2006. )"
From Needlenose: "As I wrote more than two years ago, the rhetorical strategy is to "Remind everyone that they're the strong daddy, and as long as they're in charge, the children (also known as us) shouldn't waste time second-guessing about what they're doing." Of course, I wrote that about our current president, making this stylistic choice another way that -- surprise! -- McCain is turning out to be just a would-be extended version of George Bush.
"What to do about it? Well, since this is such a timeworn GOP approach, I've written about that, too, here in early 2007:
"The absurdity of such spin after all this time shows us what the antidotes are: facing reality, appropriate derision of those who would rather live in a fantasy... and, above all, communicating to the broader public that they -- we -- are fully equipped to judge reality and determine the best response to it, rather than waiting for some Wizard of Oz-like daddy to tell us what to believe.
"Still seems like the right answer to me."
John Sidney McBumbler is dangerous and unqualified for the presidency and there are strong indications that he would be even worse than the current criminal in that office.
I couldn't write it any better than the following commentaries via Cursor.org:
From Economists for Obama: "McCain today gave his dream world speech, framed as what he "would hope to have achieved" by 2013. The vision is so absurdly rosy that a reporter told him to his face that it sounded like a "magic carpet ride."
"The coverage I've seen thus far has focused on his preposterously sunny vision for Iraq, with American troops coming from an Iraq War that has been "won." But his imagined economic scenario is equally deluded and at points directly at odds with his own program.
"For example, in McCain's Magic Carpet Ride 2013, "More small businesses offer their employees health plans." As I explained in an earlier post, however, the entire point of McCain's health proposals is to kill the existing system of employer-provided health care by making employees pay taxes on their health benefits. So McCain's fantasy is not just improbable--it's exactly contrary to what his proposal is designed to achieve.
"McCain also fails to mention that the Tax Policy Center's analysis, reviewed by Jonah in a previous post, shows that enacting McCain's tax proposal would slash government revenues by $578 billion in 2013. How huge a figure is this? It's more than the entire domestic discretionary budget of $571 billion projected by the Congressional Budget Office for 2013!
"Where would all that money to pay for our Magic Carpet Ride come from? Either from a radical downsizing of Medicare, Social Security, and the military (not, unsurprisingly, part of McCain's fantasy), or an explosion in government debt. If a President McCain tries to take on us on that Magic Carpet Ride, we better enjoy the trip, because our grandkids will be paying for it.
From Crooks and Liars: "McCain declared that he “would hope to have achieved” a drawdown of most U.S. forces by the end of his first term in 2013. But given McCain’s unbroken record of error of forecasting when it comes to Iraq, Americans should rightly view his new 10 year prediction with suspicion.
"And with a total suspension of disbelief. In a speech that was more hypothetical thought exercise than policy address, McCain did his best John Lennon impersonation and asked Americans to “imagine all the people” (or at least most of them) back from Iraq by the end of his first term...
"From visions of a rapid U.S. victory and Americans being greeted liberators to finding weapons of mass destruction and turning the corner, John McCain was tragically mistaken each and every time.
A few excerpts:
“ 'I remain confident that we will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.' (John McCain, June 11, 2003.)
“ 'Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?' (John McCain, responding to assertion by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto that “many argue the conflict isn’t over,” June 11, 2003. )
“ 'We’re either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months.' (John McCain, November 12, 2006. )"
From Needlenose: "As I wrote more than two years ago, the rhetorical strategy is to "Remind everyone that they're the strong daddy, and as long as they're in charge, the children (also known as us) shouldn't waste time second-guessing about what they're doing." Of course, I wrote that about our current president, making this stylistic choice another way that -- surprise! -- McCain is turning out to be just a would-be extended version of George Bush.
"What to do about it? Well, since this is such a timeworn GOP approach, I've written about that, too, here in early 2007:
"The absurdity of such spin after all this time shows us what the antidotes are: facing reality, appropriate derision of those who would rather live in a fantasy... and, above all, communicating to the broader public that they -- we -- are fully equipped to judge reality and determine the best response to it, rather than waiting for some Wizard of Oz-like daddy to tell us what to believe.
John Sidney McBumbler is dangerous and unqualified for the presidency and there are strong indications that he would be even worse than the current criminal in that office.
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