Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow on Mccain's erratic behavior

What we learned last week is that the man who always puts his country first will take the country down with him if thats what it takes to get to the White House.

For all the focus on Friday nights deadlocked debate, it still cant obscure what preceded it: When John McCain gratuitously parachuted into Washington on Thursday, he didnt care if his grandstanding might precipitate an even deeper economic collapse. All he cared about was whether he might save his campaign. George Bush put more deliberation into invading Iraq than McCain did into his own reckless invasion of the delicate Congressional negotiations on the bailout plan.

By the time he arrived, there already was a bipartisan agreement in principle. It collapsed hours later at the meeting convened by the president in the Cabinet Room. Rather than help try to resuscitate Wall Streets bloodied bulls, McCain was determined to be the bull in Washingtons legislative china shop, running around town and playing both sides of his divided party against Congresss middle. Once others eventually forged a path out of the wreckage, hed inflate, if not outright fictionalize, his own role in cleaning up the mess his mischief helped make. Or so he hoped, until his ignominious retreat.

The question is why would a man who forever advertises his own honor toy so selfishly with our national interest at a time of crisis. Ill leave any physiological explanations to gerontologists — if they can get hold of his complete medical records — and any armchair psychoanalysis to the sundry McCain press acolytes who have sorrowfully tried to rationalize his erratic behavior this year. The other answers, all putting politics first, can be found by examining the 24 hours before he decided to suspend campaigning and swoop down on the Capitol to save America from the Sunnis or the Shia, or whoever perpetrated all those credit-default swaps.

To put these 24 hours in context, you must remember that McCain not only knows little about the economy but that he has not previously expressed any urgency about its meltdown. It was on Sept. 15 — the day after his former idol Alan Greenspan pronounced the current crisis a once-in-a-century catastrophe — that McCain reaffirmed for the umpteenth time that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. As recently as Tuesday he had not yet even read the two-and-a-half-page bailout proposal first circulated by Hank Paulson last weekend. I have not had a chance to see it in writing, he explained.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
As the Palin pick starts dominating the news cycles - and not in a good way - you have to ask yourself what the fundamental point of this story is. I can't put it better than this reader:

I don't think it's Troopergate, the curious pregnancy, the pregnant unwed daughter, the Alaskan separatists, or the bottomless ignorance that makes the difference. Palin is by any measure the worst vice presidential pick of the modern age (which considering Agnew, Quayle and Eagleton is quite a statement). The killer is McCain's decision-making process and what this tells us about it. The man is a risk-taker who makes snap decisions "from the gut." He liked Palin. She looked like a maverick and a bit like himself. He didn't invest the time or resources to look into her deeply.

How can a person like this be put at the helm in a time of skyrocketing international tensions?
To my mind, this pick is not about Palin's unreadiness to be president. It's about McCain's unreadiness to be president. This act of judgment - a blend of ignorance, gut, cynicism, and pure egotism - makes him seem like a worse potential presdent than even George W. Bush. This is McCain's first real executive decision. And it is unbelievably shallow, incompetent and reckless.

How seriously does he take service to his country when he make a decision this important this crazily?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/its-about-mccai....

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[padude64]

Palin is so dumb! If MCain and Palin get in, we are done!

[121jazzy]

What?! 40% of people think Sarah Palin is qualified to ba president! What are these people taking? Any college graduate is more qualified than her..

[FreeAssange1]

Thank you...Palin go home...next!!!

[hoboboxerjoe]

Maddow and Olberman are really fantastic. I'd love to see them have more clout and viewership with the American and even Canadian people.

I have seen these two exhibit ethics that are founded in true journalism. Not this yellow-journalism and pseudo-journalism bullshit that is the norm on Fox and the vast majority of right-winged press websites and papers.

[Sooksawaspakdee961]

The people that actually voted for Mccain/Palin are just a bunch of borderline idiots.

[razattack1337]

@afordian the correct word is 'they're' you dumbass, maybe if you knew the difference you wouldn't believe in witches.

[afordian]

witches there all witches !

[Nostatementinthename]

Oi?!

[aviles1323]

i agree dumb moronic idiots brain washed by msnbc propaganda.......

[nohealthcare62]

John broke Cindys arm when he told her he was asking Plain to run with him .Something the Media didnt run with and they should have ..The man is a complete nut ..look he asked >a Alaskian dummy like Pailin to run with him because it was his only chance & made Cindy look more of a fool than she already is and a big fight took place .

[Veltanschaung]

Why is it that small penisheads seem to hate Palin and Hillary? mental issues will be covered by Baracks O' soon...

[padude64]

plain IS A SLUT AND WE ALL KNOW IT SO SHUT THE FUCK UP