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• Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:57 AM

  McCain's poor judgment and incuriosity

  Kudoes to Salon for this article. I'm a long time policy wonk but didn't realize that he had Michael Powell on his lobbyist team. Powell's tenure at the FCC was an unmitigated disaster for the American public. McSame seems to have a knack for picking the worst of all possible advisors, from Joe Lieberman to foreign policy Iran/Iraq war hawk Randy Scheunemann (see Salon 8/1/08). Phil Gramm's demise leaves Nixon's "Jew counter" Fred Malek atop his staff "economic advisors."

  The Senator's laziness is equally disturbing. I had no idea he chaired Commerce and Science for six years plus serving two more as ranking member. How was he able to occupy that position for so long, yet still be blissfully ignorant about the capabilities of the Internet in building a participatory and educated citizenry? That is simply astounding, nothing less than prodigious dereliction of duty. Again, lacking rudimentary computer skills, McCain must be entirely dependent on his ideologically driven groupies, greedheads and industry shills for information. I am reminded of Dubya's statement that he "read the headlines," as if that were an adequate measure of a grasp of issues. Surely the U.S. can't afford that sort of intellectual sloth for another four years.

  We're a nation that elected Teddy Roosevelt, a crusader who wrote 40 books and read a book a day, even when he was president. How can we have come to this?

  —Frank Smith, Bluff City, KS Read Frank Smith, Bluff City, KS's other letters
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