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He's got enough of that in the bank, at least with the media
Really, what kind of bank is Mr. Todd talking about? One that is engaging in sub-prime lending, no doubt. Only to these pundits could such a long history of being wrong about foreign policy issues constitute a positive bank balance.
Our system is broken when such a statement can be made. It shows that the political establishment unabashedly excludes entire viewpoints. Guys like Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky, who got the Iraq war right and have been getting things right for decades, are, among other things, Kooks, Extreme Leftists, Marxists even (gasp!) and must Hate America for doing so and cannot be countenanced in polite company. But Uncle John, demonstrably a walking foreign policy disaster, is okey dokey!
There just cannot be fair and honest discourse in such an environment. Throw in latent (and sometimes blatant) racism and misogyny, and I'm thinking we will need a bit of luck to avoid President McCain.
PS: Don't forget that McCain admits that his strength is foreign policy and that he's weak on domestic policy. With one of the worst economic crises facing us this sort of "expertise" is just what we don't need.
