Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "best"
This is what he meant:
if being open-minded were your highest priority for a politician
If you had bean reading, you would have noticed this and spared us, yet another diatribe against a man that nobody here likes.
Re:Black and white
by bayareaguy on Monday November 03, 2008 @05:57AM
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Given the corrupting environment in which they work, I don't think being "open-minded" about solicitations and temptations to be a good thing for a politician, especially when it leads to breaking commitments.
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "best". He certainly appeals to Americans who respect those who avoid responsibility and act in their own self interest. He strikes me as the kind of person who is likely to find a way out of past promises when a better deal comes along.
How else would could you explain the way he abandoned his crippled wife for a pretty rich lady twenty years younger then himself? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-J...
How else to explain the many ways he's changed his position since 2000 in order to gain favor with the far right? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1779141 or his new position on torture? http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto