There is a French saying: ¡°le plus le change, le plus le meme chose¡± (the more it changes, the more it is the same). This is the Republican agenda. McCain admitted, he knows very little about the economy, and avoids discussing economic issues. At the same time, he tells the voters he will fix the economy, even appoint a ¡°9/11 Commission,¡± to investigate the meltdown at Wall Street? Creating a ¡°commission¡± to investigate a problem is the same as postponing action because he has no solution, or the problem is to big to deal with. Being a leader of a superpower, with credibility and respect around the world, requires a leader to have the ability to prevent a problem or respond quickly to forestall worse consequences. The alternative is to rely only on military might, even win the battle but loose the war, and be the most hated country in the world. McCain will do just that, just like Bush. Sarah Palin is just another Bush, with lipstick.Oro en wow  McCain would deal with economic collapse after it runs its course, and a ¡°9/11 Commission complete its findings and the public debate(!) alternative courses of action. ¡°Minerva?s owl [Hegel commented] begins to fly when the dusk is falling¡± (when it is too late). McCain cannot fix it, now or later, because he is fixated on a market solution. He calls himself a ¡°deregulator,¡± a ¡°market fundamentalist¡± who will let the market will do its job.

That is exactly what the market did. It did its job. When the ?big suits? at Wall Street run out of manipulations and ran away like bandits with millions of dollars in their pockets and let the little people hold the empty bags, the federal government came in to rescue the financial institutions, with taxpayer money. This made McCain angry. With his hand raised and cutting into the air, he located the cause: corporate greed. This only pointed to the real problem, McCain himself. Was it a senior moment or just ignorance? To a market ideologue, greed is the underlying principle of capitalism. The greed for money, Freud commented, makes all the other instincts move. Market fundamentalists believe that humans (all humans) are greedy, selfish, and competitive--all the time. ¡°Life [Thomas Hobbes suggested] is solitary, brutish, and short. When you play the stock market or buy a lotto ticket, you are taking a chance, gambling. Wall Street is a gambling casino! When you roll the dice, there are winners and losers.

These social and economic activities are extensions of human nature. They are also natural, since Adam was a little boy. They are not like the leftists who believe that everything is part of the historical process, with a beginning and an end. That includes the planet earth and the universe. They are all, as Heraclitus said, in a state of flux. Hence, capitalism is not forever, neither is the social formation which follows capitalism. To McCain, whether he knows it or not, his notion of market capitalism has been and will be forever. It is through this false ¡°ideal¡± in his head, that he understands the world, and offers solutions to real economic and social problems affecting people all over the globe, lineage 2 adena including the United States. We read in the newspapers daily: the Russians need a free market to be a democracy. The Chinese need free markets to have a democracy and civil liberties. The Islamic world will be free, if they allow free markets to thrive. We need to teach them the ideas of Adam Smith. That is why McCain repeats the same words, offers the same analysis and solutions, no matter what the question is and the country in question. It is a simplistic ideology, for simple-minded people. Outside this box, and the surge in Iraq and his captivity in Hanoi, McCain offers nothing to the voters.