ClydeR
09-23-2008, 11:19 AM
Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does."
-George Will, writing in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html)
Will goes on to charge that McCain has a "Manichaean worldview" coupled with "boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes" that make McCain unfit to be president.
At the bottom of Will's eloquent anger is McCain's call for Chris Cox to be fired. The question is whether or not Cox has "betrayed the public's trust," as McCain claims. So far as I can tell, McCain's only specific criticism (http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/NewsReleases/Read.aspx?guid=491557e3-b659-4f2c-8b38-848b73955f1b) of Cox was that the SEC eliminated the uptick rule for short sales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptick) in 2007. I can't figure out how the uptick rule is supposed to relate to the subprime mortgage crisis.
When logic and proportion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1J9a9SMYo)
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head"
-George Will, writing in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html)
Will goes on to charge that McCain has a "Manichaean worldview" coupled with "boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes" that make McCain unfit to be president.
At the bottom of Will's eloquent anger is McCain's call for Chris Cox to be fired. The question is whether or not Cox has "betrayed the public's trust," as McCain claims. So far as I can tell, McCain's only specific criticism (http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/NewsReleases/Read.aspx?guid=491557e3-b659-4f2c-8b38-848b73955f1b) of Cox was that the SEC eliminated the uptick rule for short sales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptick) in 2007. I can't figure out how the uptick rule is supposed to relate to the subprime mortgage crisis.
When logic and proportion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1J9a9SMYo)
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head"