McCain's Inherent Ill-Temper

Andrew

Linking a transcript provided by The Plank of an exchenge between President Obama and Senator McCain, you referred to "McCain's inherent ill-temper". I don't believe this characterization was fair - and I don't believe it's one you would have made if you'd seen the video of McCain making his comment. Here it is, at HuffPo.

I agree that a read of the transcript leaves McCain sounding combative. But when you watch the video it's apparent his tone is far more agreeable than one gathers from simply reading his words.

Joe Kinlan

Jindal & Kenneth the Page, GOP reactions

Andrew,

Regarding Althouse, et al, we have to keep in mind that one of the main reasons that Jindal was chosen to give the GOP response to the speech is precisely because of his skin color. Therefore, any negativity he faces from critics must, by definition, be because of his color.

The GOP is being too cute, by half, here. And like a lot of their recent political decisions, the American people are by and large beyond them.

Fred

Gregg to run Commerce

Obama picks Judd Gregg (R-NH) for Commerce Sect.

The NH governor agreed to select a Republican to replace him in the Senate, which cleared the way for him to go to Commerce.

A win-win, I think.

On Daschle's tax problems

Andrew,

You're right that Daschle's tax problems should be less of a problem than Geithner's problems, but that isn't why Daschle should be dropped. He should be dropped because he knew of the problem and tried to hide it from the Obama team.

In other words, Daschle should be dropped because he fails the transparancy test, a test failure neither Packer not the NY Times even mention.

Your pal,

Fred