He keeps saying "which is the real Obama?" but that I think I know. Whereas McCain has been honorable at times -- even if I don't agree with him -- and then at other times there's the Keating Five mess (where he was played for a dupe by Charles Keating, but if he learned his lesson, why does he keep hiring those same kinds of people as his advisors: cf Phil Gramm and Rick Davis?), plus the Lewinksy-phase during his first marriage which I should be ignoring, since it's politically irrelevant, except it seems to me a greater level of callousness than I expected from him.
It's weird. I used to think of McCain as a bit like Colin Powell: I respected him and felt that he had reasoned judgment for arriving at his views, which happen to be more conservative than mine. At this point McCain and "reason" seem to be having a feud.
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He keeps saying "which is the real Obama?" but that I think I know. Whereas McCain has been honorable at times -- even if I don't agree with him -- and then at other times there's the Keating Five mess (where he was played for a dupe by Charles Keating, but if he learned his lesson, why does he keep hiring those same kinds of people as his advisors: cf Phil Gramm and Rick Davis?), plus the Lewinksy-phase during his first marriage which I should be ignoring, since it's politically irrelevant, except it seems to me a greater level of callousness than I expected from him.
It's weird. I used to think of McCain as a bit like Colin Powell: I respected him and felt that he had reasoned judgment for arriving at his views, which happen to be more conservative than mine. At this point McCain and "reason" seem to be having a feud.