June 24, 2008 / by emptywheel

 

McCain: The Presidency Is All in My Head

The Great Orange Satan points to John McCain, admitting that offshore drilling will provide nothing but "psychological" benefits:

At a town hall in Fresno, CA, McCain admitted that the offshore drilling proposal he unveiled last week would probably have mostly “psychological” benefits, NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy notes. “Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial." Uh oh.

But this isn’t the first time that McCain has treated his presidential campaign as an exercise in tilting at windmills psychological affirmation. As a Mid-Western gal, I still cannot believe McCain flew his Sugar Momma Express into Youngstown, Ohio and told a bunch of struggling manufacturing workers that the shitty economy, like the benefits of offshore oil drilling, is just psychological. Here’s McCain telling that to Fox News:

"But I think psychologically – and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological – the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home," he added.

McCain explained that his proposal to eliminate the federal gas tax for three months would provide Americans the necessary ‘psychological boost’ to deal with their economic problems.

Given McCain’s professed ignorance about economic issues, I guess this isn’t really surprising. But jeebus–isn’t it time for him to admit that his chief domestic policy is to fool Americans with a bunch of psychological hocus pocus?

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