{"id":196757,"date":"2008-03-26T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/26\/scare-quotes-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:26:00","slug":"scare-quotes-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/26\/scare-quotes-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Scare Quotes of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of that communist rag, the Financial times of London, where they ask Why we should fear a McCain presidency<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It may seem incredible to say this, given past experience, but a few years from now Europe and the world could be looking back at the Bush administration with nostalgia<\/span>. This possibility will arise if the US elects Senator John McCain as president in November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis mine.<\/p>\n

Of course, this quote is no where near as disturbing as Harold Meyerson’s in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n

It is 3 a.m., and the stillness of the White House night is shattered by the ringing of the red phone. President John McCain, rousing himself from a deep sleep, turns on the light and picks up the receiver. A U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country, he is told, has been blown up, and al-Qaeda is taking credit.<\/p>\n

McCain takes a deep breath. “Character counts, my friend,” he says. “Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb Iran.”<\/p>\n

There is a rustling of blankets, and, brushing aside Cindy McCain, a concerned Joe Lieberman rises from the bed. “Not Iran, Mr. President,” he says. “They hate al-Qaeda.”<\/p>\n

“That’s right,” the president says. “I remember now.” He sighs with relief. “Good thing you’re here every night, Joe.”<\/p>\n

But suppose, dear reader, that John McCain becomes president and Joe Lieberman doesn’t bunk with the McCains on a nightly basis. How easily should the rest of us sleep? It’s anything but an academic question after McCain’s bizarre performance in Jordan last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As disturbing as the last image is, it’s clear that McCain’s solution to anything short of unstopping a toilet is to launch a military strike.<\/p>\n

Military strikes against the DPRK and Iran would be almost certain, and I’d offer even money for shooting between Russia or China and the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of that communist rag, the Financial times of London, where they ask Why we should fear a McCain presidency? It may seem incredible to say this, given past experience, but a few years from now Europe and the world could be looking back at the Bush administration with nostalgia. This possibility will arise if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}