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I read the other day that Sen. McCain likes to gamble. He likes to roll those dice. And that’s OK. I enjoy a little friendly game of poker myself every now and then. But one thing I know is this – we can’t afford to gamble on four more years of the same disastrous economic policies we’ve had for the last eight.
Obama seems to have read this article in the New York Times:
Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings.
A lifelong gambler, Mr. McCain takes risks, both on and off the craps table. He was throwing dice that night not long after his failed 2000 presidential bid, in which he was skewered by the Republican Party’s evangelical base, opponents of gambling. Mr. McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino, according to three associates of Mr. McCain.
The visit had been arranged by the lobbyist, Scott Reed, who works for the Mashantucket Pequot, a tribe that has contributed heavily to Mr. McCain’s campaigns and built Foxwoods into the world’s second-largest casino. Joining them was Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s current campaign manager. Their night of good fortune epitomized not just Mr. McCain’s affection for gambling, but also the close relationship he has built with the gambling industry and its lobbyists during his 25-year career in Congress.
The article also could have mentioned that McCain’s recent moves – from suspending his campaign to picking Palin could also be included among his “gambles”.
Of course, his decision to blame Pelosi for the bill’s failure isn’t a gamble – it’s just ridiculous, a desperate attempt to distract the country from this latest incident in which his party has place ideology above country. Combine this with McCain’s apparent propensity of over-personalize conflicts and crises, and you get an idea of what a disaster a McCain administration would be.
This guy wasn’t even able – after he put himself on the line and went to Washington and acknowledged something had to be done – to get a significant minority of his party to support any sort of compromise on this issue. The Republicans demonstrated today that they are not willing to make the difficult choices needed to lead.
But better days are coming:
The skies look cloudy and it’s dark. And you think the rains will never pass. But these too will pass: a brighter day will come.
8 replies on “John McCain: Gambling With Our Futures”
Actually, the only info in your typically vapid comment is that McCain likes to gamble on dice and Obama likes to play poker.
This is illuminating because dice gambling is about taking flat percentage risks – you basically play against the house and the laws of probability.
In contrast poker is a game about LYING. The only way to win is by knowing how to deceive your opponent and when.
This suggests that McCain is a recreational risk taker and Obama is a recreational liar. So thank you for the info.
And as always, you attempt to justify your emotional response with empty moralizing, appropriating God to justify your fetishistic emotional revulsion.
I believe that the only emotional response in this exchange is your own knee-jerk defense of your blog page and of your own pathetic god, Barak Obama, and his unclean spirit, the unholy idiot ghost of disco-era liberalism that you, Hillary and Barney Frank worship.
Apart from that, you should not to criticize my accurate ethical perceptions as fetishism. Your twisted sexuality is all to apparent in your effeminate adulation of Obama.
I do not characterize your ethical perceptions as fetishes – but your emotions as fetishistic. And by that I mean that they are unnatural compulsions that are the result of an only semi-conscious perversion of “normal” reactions.
Your perceptions – ethical and otherwise – are not “accurate” by any definition that would be supplied by anyone but yourself.
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