Convictions and Positions

Recently I was reading an Andrew Sullivan post in which one of his readers compared Clinton and Obama to Yahoo and Google respectively. For those who are interested in the observation I would recommend it as a nice entertainment piece. After having read it myself, I decided to check out the rest of his reader's blog and have found it quite interesting. I would recommend Talented Earthquake Productions (as his blog is titled) to anyone who enjoys reading Andrew.

In particular there was one post that was especially perceptive regarding McCain's convictions and his positions and most notably the lack of connection between the two. Here is the quote...

"Then of course there is the problem of exactly what McCain thinks. This video highlights some of his contradictory statements. I don't think he's intellectually dishonest- I just think he doesn't think about policy that deeply or carefully enough to have consistent positions. He has principles, which are deeply held, and are generally good. But I don't think he's done a lot of the hard work connecting the principles to the positions."

The video he is referring to is here...



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