{"id":315,"date":"2008-08-28T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T10:07:04","slug":"mccain-v-obama-personality-and-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"McCain v. Obama: Personality and Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does one take the measure of an individual?\u00a0 How will a person react under stress to unpredictable circumstance?\u00a0 President Bush was so unengaged that he probably didn’t know when he should have been feeling more stress.\u00a0 He failed to oversee little things, like the war in Iraq and the economy.\u00a0 One actually wonders what he did in the White House all of these years.\u00a0 But I digress.<\/p>\n

\"\"John McCain likes to think of himself as a straight talker.\u00a0 In general I think that’s true but it’s not always the case.\u00a0 I liked that he took his change of heart to support drilling off the coast of California to the environmental lobby and told them to their face (even though I hate the idea of drilling off the coast).\u00a0 Having heard him talk I like how he has handled opposition when dealing with abortion.\u00a0 Still, I dislike that he did in fact flip flop on drilling, and I don’t like that he refused to answer a simple question by the press, like, \u201cHow many houses do you own?\u201d<\/p>\n

I am also deaply saddened by McCain’s resorting to negative campaigning, in spite of his protestations to the contrary.\u00a0 To me, negative campaigning is the loser’s last refuge, and here it is as if someone said to McCain, \u201cDo you want to be known as a statesman nice guy loser, or do you want to win?\u201d\u00a0 And he decided he wanted to win, damn his principles.<\/p>\n

While the practice has been executed flawlessly by Republicans, it should be noted that Democrats can play the game as well, as Senator Clinton did in the primaries.\u00a0 As distasteful as behaving this way in the general is, it is unforgivable in primaries, and Clinton violated what some call the Reagan Rule, named after the President who reminded members of his party who the opposition was.<\/p>\n

\"\"Barak Obama has done very little negative campaigning.\u00a0 He has another quality, however, that I like.\u00a0 He has stated openly that he is not an idealogue.\u00a0 He seems to take every situation as it is presented to him and responds appropriately.\u00a0 This makes him perhaps a more difficult public speaker because he can’t just blat out the one liners.\u00a0 It makes him unpreditable at times.<\/p>\n

His level of education wards off some of my concern about his unpredictability, and he is not inarticulate.<\/p>\n

This leads me to believe that Obama has better judgment and the appropriate personality for the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does one take the measure of an individual?\u00a0 How will a person react under stress to unpredictable circumstance?\u00a0 President Bush was so unengaged that he probably didn’t know when he should have been feeling more stress.\u00a0 He failed to oversee little things, like the war in Iraq and the economy.\u00a0 One actually wonders what … Continue reading “McCain v. Obama: Personality and Judgment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[132,131,130],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","tag-election","tag-mccain","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}