John McCain's Incoherence --Weapon or Nemesis?

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Never have squiggles so delighted me. Look at the Gallup widget at the base of the page. You will see that Barack squiggled up and McCain squiggled down. While everyone else is saying this contest is close and so forth, I say that Barack is winning while the MSM bloviates.

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A careful analysis of the McCain medical plan SOURCE

On the face of it, "means-testing" Medicare sounds so reasonable. By contrast, reforming Medicare to raise quality and contain costs would be a tough job. As I've discussed in the past, if done right, Medicare reform could serve as a model for national health care reform that included a public sector plan open to everyone. This is just what conservatives fear.

It would be so much easier, they say, to just raise co-pays on more affluent seniors--until finally Medicare becomes a model for nothing. At that point, those who oppose "Medicare for All" can breathe a sigh of relief.

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Drudge on the way down. Can Limbaugh be far behind? (Say I am dreaming, I don't mind.) SOURCE + ANCILLARY

Here's hoping Pew is right. SOURCE

Barack's 30 Minutes of Prime Time -- A Preview SOURCE

A First Hand Look at Early Voting in Florida SOURCE

John McCain's Incoherence --Weapon or Nemesis? SOURCE

Merely because John McCain is nonsensical and incoherent, this should be no reason for complacency. Here is a clear, coherent articulation of the Obama tax results for the middle class. Click to enlarge.


Every rational being who has followed the campaign knows that Obama is not into taxing the middle class. But does that stop McCain? It energizes him. Find a lie to tell about Obama and coherence be damned. Fold it into a passionate, incoherent stump speech and the applause evokes one of those sickly smiles.

For McCain incoherence may be a weapon. If he can depend on dumbing down of both media and public, he just might find a way.

For those of us who see as a clear and persuasive choice, we need to make incoherence McCain's nemesis.

We need to make incoherence into an advantage for the Obama Campaign.

How?

By lifting McCain's incoherence to the skies. By suggesting that incoherence describes the likely behavior of a President John McCain.

What is incoherence?

Incoherence is a lack of clarity, cconsistency, cohesion and organization. Incoherence is, in McCain, unintelligible nonsense, distortion and outright lying. Coherence is logical progression, hanging together, one thing following another. Incoherence is an absence of logic, a falling apart, no progression at all.

Incoherence is NOT want we want in the White House. Not because incoherence is necessarily a bad weapon in a conflict, but because, in a John McCain, it is merely one of the methods by which his real ineffectiveness is manifested.

McCain the incoherent will also be McCain the ineffective, whose commitment to freeze spending and enact a series of incoherent policies will muddy up government for another four years, while the nation goes down the tubes.

We have no further time for this.

Next Tuesday we can relegate incoherence to the elite environs of Sedona and wherever else McCain wishes to reside. Just as long as it is not 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Here are a few scattered indications of agreement regarding the incoherence of John McCain. Most see it as a nemesis. Let us hope the American people do as well.

McCain's Incoherence on Global Warming SOURCE

McCain's support for nuclear subsidies contradicts his claim that he opposes all subsidies.

It's also politically incoherent. McCain's support for doing something on global warming was his best bet for making the claim that he is not like President Bush. Now he risks throwing that away.

Incoherence & Irrelevance SOURCE

As McCain continues to fade into incoherence and irrelevance, the last hope is that he'll come up with some new game-changing stunt to match his initial pick of Palin or his ill-fated campaign "suspension." Until Thursday night, more than a few Republicans were fantasizing that his final Hail Mary pass would be to ditch Palin so she can "spend more time" with her ever-growing family. But the debate reminded Republicans once again that it's Palin, not McCain, who is their last hope for victory.

McCain's Incoherence SOURCE

If you really think about it, McCain seems to be saying: the "cause greater than yourself" that calls us all to service is "you."

Of course, McCain hopes that we don't think about it. We might be reminded of Obama's warning that in the Republican "ownership society" we are all on our own.

Built on fraudulent premises, McCain's speech is not like a cup cake without sprinkles or a pie without ice cream.

It's like sugar coating on a poison pill.

The Utter Incoherence of McCain's Messages SOURCE

The McCain camp's recent question "Who is?" is apt, oddly, because the McCain campaign could never decide for itself what the answer was. [...] The indiscipline of the message has been a direct reflection of McCain himself — a man whose scatterbrained approach to the world was in full effect last night. He needed a cannon, a single, powerful sustained assault on Obama. Instead, he fired birdshot haphazardly, hitting himself in the foot as often as he stung his opponent.

McCain campaign notable mostly for its incoherence SOURCE

McCain makes much of wanting to get rid of congressional earmarks; everybody wants to get rid of earmarks, except the one that benefits my community or my industry. He proposes an across-the-board spending freeze -- during a recession? -- and then, in the next breath, proposes new spending. He overestimates the voters' tolerance for incoherence.

Joe Klein on McCain's Incoherence SOURCE

It seems to me McCain has to make a choice: reformer or deregulator. Reform means the restoration of a serious, activist regulatory presence--in other words, more government. Deregulation means more of what we're seeing this week on Wall Street, the excesses that occur when government steps away from its responsibility as referee and guarantor of a fair playing field.

As in recent weeks, McCain has made a bet on the stupidity of the American people--he thinks he can have it both ways. The drift away from him in the polls may be a sign that the public says he can't.

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