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"Paul Krugman: Where are the grown-ups?
Eugene Robinson:
Drama King to the Rescue
John McCain is rapidly making his temperament an inescapable issue in the presidential campaign. Does the nation really want so much drama in the White House?
NY Times:
Instead he [McCain] found himself in the midst of a remarkable partisan showdown, lacking a clear public message for how to bring it to an end.
At the bipartisan White House meeting that Mr. McCain had called for a day earlier, he sat silently for more than 40 minutes, more observer than leader, and then offered only a vague sense of where he stood, said people in the meeting.
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Still, by nightfall, the day provided the younger and less experienced Mr. Obama an opportunity to, in effect, shift roles with Mr. McCain. For a moment, at least, it was Mr. Obama presenting himself as the old hand at consensus building, and as the real face of bipartisan politics
h/t EmperorHadrian
EJ Dionne:
John McCain's sudden intervention in Washington's deliberations over the Wall Street bailout could not have been more out of sync with what was actually happening.
Charles Krauthammer: Just shoot a few investment bankers, give the rabble their bread and circus, and let's move on and save the rich.
John Dickerson:
OK, you run to the fire hydrant, cut left, and then when he gets to the Buick, John, you heave it.
Roger Cohen:
Sarah Palin loves the word "exceptional." At a rally in Nevada the other day, the Republican vice-presidential candidate said: "We are an exceptional nation." Then she declared: "America is an exceptional country." In case anyone missed that, she added: "You are all exceptional Americans."
I have to hand it to Palin, she may be onto something in her batty way: the election is very much about American exceptionalism.
David Brooks: McCain was a POW. I'm where Richard Cohen was two months ago, except Cohen realized McCain was full of shit and a toxic serial liar, and I'm not intellectually honest enough to admit it to myself.
Kathleen Parker: I don't know what's with Brooks, but even I know Sarah the Unready is a disaster. And David, McCain chose her. What does that tell you about McCain?