What will you like most about the McCain Presidency?

Don't take your eye off the ball, folks. His age is, of course, no concern. The fact that he's a pandering, two faced, seriously confused individual is of great importance.

Given these attributes, he'll likely have no problem adapting to the Republican proclivity for mendacious behavior.

Neither the USA nor the world can afford another debacle like the one of the last 8 years.

I would like that McCain's SENIOR MOMENTS will not be as destructive for the country as have been Bush's JUNIOR MOMENTS.

See Krugman
Krugman has two very good points in tomorrow's column. 1) The eery silence on the campaign trail about what financial crisis we're currently struggling to make our way through and 2) The fact that John McCain's primary economics advisor, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R), is probably as responsible for setting the stage for this crisis as anyone in the country through his legislative role in the deregulation of the financial services industry.

Also, highly inspiring is the fact that another of McCain's advisors is Kevin Hassett, he of "Dow 36,000" fame, sort of an avatar of boom market snake oil, if you will. More generally, as Kevin Drum notes, if you think McCain's foreign policy is 'Bush Redux, Just More Nuts', well, then wait till you see his economic policy.

--Josh Marshall

What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry about becoming Mr. Kerry's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.

McCain has repeatedly sought restrictions on lobbyists and campaign donations, saying they create the appearance of corruption. "It is no coincidence that the most influential lobbyists with the greatest access in the nation's Capitol are also the most prolific political fundraisers," McCain says on his campaign website.

Attacks kill 57 in Iraq; Green Zone hit

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Or, cease continuation of a strategy that is not working and, hoping beyond reason, to also quit lying about the 'success of the surge'.

He has adopted the Bush/Cheney program and the technique of refusing to be honest and straight in the hopes that further fear-mongering and deceits will gain him an electoral victory.