How I would welcome a McCain presidency
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
ARTICLE: "Bush's Colombia Push Fans Flames on Trade," by Greg Hitt, Bob Davis and Jose de Cordoba, Wall Street Journal, 8 April 2008, p. A1.
Both Clinton and Obama, if elected, present the frightening spectacle of a pandering Democratic White House looking for easy wins with an angry citizenry on protectionism because getting such wins on Iraq will be almost impossible. Both Clinton and Obama now bash NAFTA, China and oppose the free trade pact proposed with Colombia, the rejection of which would constitute one big F.U. to Uribe and the magnificent effort he's put in despite our still foolish, supply-side-focus on the drug "war." McCain would scare me on many levels, but a Dem prez plus strengthened Dem majorities in both houses? Yikes, that's got Smoot-Hawley written all over it, and that would be significantly more damaging to world stability than even nuking Iran--I kid you not. The longer such nonsense gets pushed by the Dem candidates, the more presidential McCain looks--I kid you not. |
