Obama calm cool collected, McCain well....

I agree with George Will seldom. (Except maybe when it comes to baseball) However, he seems to speak his mind other than spewing a campaigns talking points. I heard a brief tidbit from the Sunday shows re: the candidates handling the financial crisis. He has decided to put his pen where his mouth is. The following is the opening line from his current piece in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama

These comments appear to be in line with former Secretary of State Powell's comments regarding to McCains reaction to the military conflict between Russia and Georgia earlier this summer. It appears McCain for whatever reason needs to be seen as a man of action when these situations arise. It is hard to tell if this a campaign calcuation or a reflection on his personal makeup. Unfortanetly his rush to action has proven in accurate and off the mark in both circumstances. This is but one more way in which McCain is more of Bush and Obama is a contrast. It goes back to what the Seattle Times endorsement stated regarding having some one who is intelligent and will work through a crisis.

We need the leader of the free world to think things through, carefully. We have seen the sorry results ofshooting from the hip.

Seattle Times Endorsement

Will continues on discussing McCains approach to personnel decisions in a possible McCain adminstration. Sounds like Will did not have the wool pulled over his eyes on the Palin pick .

But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.