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Obama details his ‘economic rescue plan’ – CNN.com

McCain told voters Monday that they should elect him because “what America needs in this hour is a fighter.”
“I will fight to take America in a new direction from my first day in office until my last. I’m not afraid of the fight, I’m ready for it,” McCain said at a rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Lines like this always make me think about a scene from Other People’s Money.  For those of you who haven’t seen it, Danny DeVito’s character is, basically, attempting
a hostile takeover of Gregory Peck’s company, New England Wire And Cable.  Peck’s daughter, Penelope Ann Miller is trying to help her father keep the company and prevent DeVito from slicing it
up for sale. 
Peck, more or less, has one line again and again throughout the movie.  “We’ve got to fight him!”

Thats fine and all, but he’s not actually willing to, you know, fight.

Peck:We’ve got to fight him!

Miller: Well, we could borrow some money and…

Peck: This company has never borrowed money and we aren’t going to start now!  We’ve got to fight him!

Miller: OK, we could reincorporate in Delaware where takeovers are much harder.  That doesn’t mean moving the company, just changing the location on the paperwork.

Peck: NEVER!  This company started in *some new england town* and its going to stay there!  We’ve got to fight him!

Miller: *suggestion which shows an understanding of the facts in play*

Peck: NEVER!  *statement completely ignoring the real world* FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

After this scene, I couldn’t help but side with DeVito on some level.  Peck’s character simply didn’t understand the real world, was stuck back in 1950.  Worse, he denied the real world.  Wonderfully inspiring in that he refuses to give up any of his ideals, but absolutely useless otherwise.  A fighter who didn’t know how to fight.

And thats John McCain right there.  The man doesn’t know anything about economics and possibly even less about diplomacy and international relations. 
Sure, he has goals, I suppose, but even though he’ll never give up, he simply doesn’t know how to acheive them.

But it sure do sound good, don’t it all?