Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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After watching this past weekend’s “megachurch debate” McCain showed that he really has only two main planks in his platform – Kill It and Drill It. Killing and drilling is all he seems to know.
Obama on the other hand can articulate subtle issues like health care, social injustice, unemployment, off-shoring (as in moving jobs off shore, not drilling), global warming, alternative energy, transportation, and diplomacy.
Diplomacy is such a lost art it seems. When faced with a global conflict, deploying a diplomat is cheaper than deploying the 82nd Airborne. A diplomat will need a laptop, cell phone, air fare, hotel room, and a few cab rides. That is dirt cheap when compared to lugging half of Jacksonville, NC all the way around the world.
Diplomats may be forceful, but they do not kill, especially innocent civilians. They don’t accidentally level schools, hospitals or baby milk factories.
McCain has never been able to articulate his ideas about diplomacy, probably because it doesn’t involve gunpowder.
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