fuzzy math

[Peijen]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9669C8B63

This is dismaying to see in a man who says he will be a leader of educational reform. We can at least be thankful that if elected, Mr. Bush intends to assemble panels of experts that will presumably know how to work out numbers when economic crises arise.

[quantus]

Ummm, that's like ~8 years old already... What has that got to do with now other than being a bad sign of things to come (now and over the last year or so and for the next several years)?

[Peijen]

The point was that people should've know better back then. I found it interesting his last point was hopefully Bush's team is better at math then Bush, but we are learning now that they are not really better ...

[quantus]

I think the more frightening thing is that McCain's plan for many things including the economy is to assemble panels of experts as well while having shown very little understanding of these sorts of matters himself...

My friends, what we have to do with Medicare is have a commission, have the smartest people in America come together, come up with recommendations, and then, like the base-closing commission idea we had, then we should have Congress vote up or down.

Then there are the things that McCain says he knows... (I know the current President has lowered the bar, but let's not ignore the fact that he's has trouble speaking in sentences!)

I know how to handle these crises. And Senator Obama, by saying that he would attack Pakistan, look at the context of his words. I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I'll get him. I know how to get him.

I know... my friends... I know...