arcster.com Blog » Events http://blog.arcster.com These fragments I have shored against my ruins Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:05:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Why I won’t vote for McCain http://blog.arcster.com/2008/10/why-i-wont-vote-for-mccain/ http://blog.arcster.com/2008/10/why-i-wont-vote-for-mccain/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:33:53 +0000 arcster http://arcster.com/blog/2008/10/14/why-i-wont-vote-for-mccain/ Christopher Hitchens has crystallized my thoughts on why I will not be voting for McCain, despite generally voting Republican in the past.

Yes, I even voted for Bush. Twice.

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- Gram Parsons, One Hundred Years from Now
What makes the current financial crisis so terrifying is the lack of ability to control it.
The news is so manufactured these days that we’re rarely surprised. For every 9/11 and Katrina, there are hundreds of completely foreseeable things that we pretend to be surprised about.
(Did anyone really worry that either of the Clintons would not give Obama wholehearted support at the DNC?)
But the House’s failure to pass the $800 billion rescue/bailout package the first time was unexpected.
Even more unexpected was the cascading market collapses we’ve seen since.

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