# He's Back

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hes-back/465356>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hes-back/465356 "2008-09-26T16:48:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hes-back/465356/21 "2008-09-28T17:27:25Z")

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> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#):
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> Thanks, **xtisme**. I think it can only be judged “smart” after we get a better sense of its impact. Now, “risky” and/or “daring”, I’ll fully give you.
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> And that was part of my clarification request – despite **magellan01** ’s explanation, I don’t understand how people can see it as anything more than a “political move”.

And [this op-ed](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1&em&oref=login) by Frank Rich (free reg. required?) sums the whole thing up very well, IMHO. Money shot line:

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> He may be the first presidential candidate in our history to risk wrecking the country even before being voted into the Oval Office.

Sure, that’s hyperbolic. But how anyone can see McCain’s actions as anything **but** political theater is beyond me.

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