I’ll admit that I haven’t found the U.S. presidential race as compelling since Hillary Clinton (finally) dropped out. I almost miss her. (But not quite.) However, John McCain has been running such a surprisingly incompetent campaign that I’m beginning to regain my sense of wonder at the stupid things politicians say. For instance, McCain apparently told the Urban League today that the successful methods used by American troops in Iraq during the recent “surge” might fruitfully be applied in our own country’s high-crime neighborhoods:
“You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they cooperate with law enforcement.”
I try not to be too much of an alarmist, but talk of a military-style “clamp down” in American neighborhoods is certainly on the short list of things I’d rather not hear from a possible future president.
(Via Reason Hit & Run.)
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