Who's looking presidential?
Obama is meeting with Pakistani PM Gilani today, and, later, sitting down with Fed Chief Ben Bernanke. (Later: Obama met with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, too.)
Meanwhile, a senior official in the Russian Foreign Ministry comments on McCain's repeated anti-Russian comments,
Snap.
Meanwhile, a senior official in the Russian Foreign Ministry comments on McCain's repeated anti-Russian comments,
"Let him first become the U.S. president, and then we will listen attentively to him," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told a news briefing.
Snap.
posted by mikevotes at
11:19 AM
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Again, from the title of Frank Rich's recent column: "How Obama Became Acting President"
At the end of the day, Obama wants to be President. McCain wants to stand on the sidelines and lob attacks. McCain is much more comfortable as the cantankerous critic on the sidelines, than he is doing the difficult, thoughtful work of a real leader.
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-epm, at 12:18 PM
I hadn't seen that one. I generally don't make it to the oped page, but, yeah.
And, I think McCain wants to be president, I just think he can't believe it's not being handed to him.
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mikevotes, at 3:00 PM
OK. My partisanship goes without saying, but if McCain actually wants to be president, then he and Obama have very different ideas of what it means to be president... and presidential.
The amateur psychologist in me still says that McCain is driven more by the fight than an actual fire-in-the-belly desire to be the president. He may want to win the contest, but I'm not sure he cares as much about being president as he does beating Obama.
Look, he won the Republican primary by default, not particularly due to anything he actually did. He's the accidental nominee.
He seems to display a wildly scattershot -- and often conflicting -- set of ideas and pronouncements. He has shown no particular desire to educate himself on topics he is ill-versed -- in fact he almost takes a certain "aw shucks" pride in this. He seems to display only superficial interest in any issue that doesn't involve acting like John Bolton and/or sending the US military around the globe to kick ass. In short he's GWB without the frat boy "charm".
What he really likes to do is complain and criticize....
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-epm, at 7:16 PM
Yeah.
And it's funny, I think that "won the primary by default mantra is growing as his weaknesses become more apparent. (You were saying it months ago.)
And I have a post in the pipeline addressing your last two paragraphs. I don't want to spoil the surprise. Maybe if it's slow this AM, I'll put it up.
(Assuming no VP announcement?)
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mikevotes, at 6:05 AM
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