Discovery Institute - Upcoming Event:
Discovery Institute is pleased to co-present with CityClub of Seattle and the Seattle World Affairs Council a luncheon featuring U.S. Senator John McCain.
As I've said before, "Like all great indie acts, his early work was better." There are lots of places McCain could have taken his show, but he picked the DI. It doesn't matter what his speech is about, this is his attempt to pander to the creationist fringe.
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I've said it before, and will keep saying it until the DNC starts running ads quoting me: Like all indie acts, John McCain's early work was better.
This ad is a good start:
But here's the thing:
John McCain's maverickness was an act. It was never genuine.
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Waste of time. Conservatives in general (not limited to the religious right) hate McCain. It's way to late for him to make nice.
But it is nice to see him grovel and pander.
Whither goest the "Straight Talk Express?"
McCain built his political viability by being free to say what he feels when it didn't matter.
Now that he's in (what, considering his age) is his ultimate campaign, McCain is reverting to Hanoi Hilton mode; he'll say anything his handlers tell him to in hopes of staying alive.
I'm more liberal than most of the candidates I've supported and on certain issues I've wrestled with accepting a half-a-loaf rather than standing up for what I truly believe in. "You've gotta get elected," is the first lesson of politics. And, as Adlai Stevenson responded to the woman who, in 1956, assured him that every thinking American would vote for him, "But I need a majority."
There's a small part of me who thinks maybe, perhaps, John McCain might turn out to be a competent President of the United States. But he's turning out to be a disaster as a legitimate candidate. Walter Mondale might have been an okay President, but was out of his depth as a candidate. Dukakis, likewise.
The other side of the equation is our own Sam Brownback. He'd be the one person on the planet who could push past George WMD Bush and James Polk to become the worst possible President in American history. But he just might be able to manipulated the Republican twice-born into a place on the 2008 ticket.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
But not of John McCain.
What was so terrible about Polk? He was certainly successful at expansionism.
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Polk is generally regarded as having succeeded in his goals, which is why he didn't run for a second term. Whether those goals or his means of achieving them were worthy is a separate matter.
James Earl Carter was the worst president in American History, although Dubya is giving him a run for his money.
I guess the question here is whether "a good president" and "a successful president" are the same thing.
Carter ended a crisis in the Middle East, Bush created a new one. Bush is far, far ahead.
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Hey McCain, you need to hear this!
I just heard University of Wisconsin's Dr. Sean B. Carroll (Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical) talk about evolution and how the Discovery Institute cheats students out of an education.
Carroll, author of the recent book "Making of the Fittest," explains that the US is paying a price for its lack of scientific literacy.
Listen here.