stay on it or move on?

I posted right under ya...

...good minds attacking McCain and all that.

I dont want to be a concerned troll but i dont think the "hot head" meme is going to be very helpful.  McCain has a temper, wow.  

IMHO what BO needs to do is clearly and concisely lay out his vision for america with a ton of specifics much as Clinton did in 1994.

McCain's attack is BO is an empty suit who is playing on his cleb status.  The solution to that is not to attack McCain back it is to constantly hammer on specifics that BO and the democrats will do to improve the america!!!!!

Just one democrats opinion.

david

A Pundit Not a President
Posted by Max Bergmann

McCain's approach and tone on foreign policy has always been more emblematic of a tv pundit rather than a sober president. [snip]

But TV appearances encourage sound bites, over-the-top rhetoric, and good one-liners, not reasoned and nuanced diplomatic language. This is especially true from guests who are not in the current administration, since you are less likely to get invited back on Face the Nation if you down play a crisis or take a boring nuanced position. Thus on almost every crisis or incident over the last decade, McCain has sounded the alarm, ratcheted up the rhetoric and often called for military action - with almost no regards to the practical implications of such an approach.

The big concern with a McCain presidency - a concern which I am surprised has not been vocalized more fully - is that the U.S. will lurch from crisis to crisis, confrontation to confrontation, whether it be with Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. The danger is that McCain's pundit-like rhetoric will entrap the U.S. in descending spiral of foreign policy brinksmanship. Just think about the very likely scenario of McCain giving Iran/Russia a rhetorical ultimatum and Iran/Russia ignoring it. Now we are stuck - either we lose face by not following through on our threats or we follow through and go to war.  We can't afford such a reckless approach after the last eight years. For the next eight we need a president not a pundit.

McCain likes to think of himself as a "maverick."  I say, fine - he wants to be a "maverick," like he's in Top Gun, then compare him to Tom Cruise.  He dances around onstage yelling "drill here, drill now" just like Cruise danced around on Oprah's couch.  His plans for America are a "highway to the danger zone."  There are plenty of petty attacks we can use to highlight the larger narrative (and we get points for using his own celebrity meme against him).