September 1, 2008
Under Cover of Gustav (Armstrong Williams)
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) decision to suspend Republican convention activities and turn attention to helping people along the Gulf Coast deal with the potentially destructive effects of Hurricane Gustav is the right thing to do. In doing so, he not only avoids the incongruous image of fat cats partying it up while others suffer, but he shows that he puts his country ahead of his party. He has seized this crisis as an opportunity to demonstrate, rather than just talk about, his leadership abilities.
Hurricane Gustav also gives President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a perfect excuse for avoiding the convention, where their presence might be less than welcome. Both the president and the vice president have suffered in the polls of late, and could only harm the Republicans’ chances of swaying voters who are disappointed in their leadership if they were to show up to the convention.
Furthermore, the Bush administration took a serious blow to its credibility in the aftermath of the government’s mishandling of relief efforts leading up to and after Hurricane Katrina. Many blamed the situation on a lack of competence in the leadership at FEMA, whose administrator was not a professional disaster relief expert, but a political appointee. Whether the media’s characterization was correct or not, the impression that the administration cared more about politics than the well-being of American citizens has been hard to erase.
Sen. McCain is asking Americans to elect him to the office because he will put the country first. In turning attention to the people suffering from Hurricane Gustav, McCain puts his money where his mouth is. It doesn’t hurt that avoiding an appearance by the current administration at the convention helps him deflect Democrats’ assertions that he is merely offering more of the same.
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Of course Armstrong. This is quite in line with McCain's character. Obviously a point lost on the liberals out there. McCain has more than once demonstrated presidential qualities in times of crisis while Obama couldn't even give up a golf game for an international crisis.
McCain does what's right. Obama does what's expedient. Quite a different moral and ethical perspective. It will be interesting as time goes by to watch as Obama starts emulating what McCain does only to be SEEN as copying McCain. He can't win. He's playing catch up now.
Comment by ObamaNOT — September 1, 2008 @ 10:26 am
Chertoff should have been fired after Katrina. Although the federal government was not asked to intervene some leadership should have been shown and they should have jumped in with both feet. It was tragedy after the tragedy. As far as McCain, he's doing the right thing. This isn't the time to trumpet your success.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 1, 2008 @ 11:13 am
Did Janet Reno impregnate Palin's daughter?
Kinda ugly isn't it?
Comment by pghremodeler — September 1, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
Rosencrans:
Firing a man who didn't have a job is just about as stupid as supporting a man who is unqualified. Please do shut-up
Comment by pghremodeler — September 1, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
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Pingback by Politics news - Under Cover of Gustav — September 1, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
pghremodeler, it's animals like you that give left wing nuts a bad name. You would cut up Palin's daughter into pieces if you could just not to have McCain elected. There is no limit to how low you will stoop to get the blessed Messiah in.
Comment by Igor R. — September 1, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
Igor:
Palin raised what you would call a whore. The kinda sleaze John McCain would make a tastless joke about.
Sarah Palin wants to impose her "family values" on us. I would rather not vote for a hypocrite. What's your excuse?
Your slime-ball convention is just starting. Draft someone actually qualified or please do shut up
Comment by pghremodeler — September 1, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
pghremodeler: From your phony link to your idiotic comments, you sound like a complete lunatic? Tell us, are you?
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 1, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
pghremodeler, by your definition Obama is a son of a whore, yet I would never call her that. Her problem in my eyes was her Communist leanings, and his father's among others, was abandoning his wife with a young kid after pretending to marry her while being married to several others.
Comment by Igor R. — September 1, 2008 @ 6:30 pm