That is a jarring statement coming from Mr. Carr, who is not a lumber man, or paper company executive, but executive director of the Adirondack chapter of the Nature Conservancy, one of the world's biggest environmental groups and, since June, the owner of 161,000 acres of highly prized Adirondack wild lands.
It's still a fairly jarring statement for a Senate candidate to make (Angle said it during the primary), especially when Nevada has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.
"I've never been this close to suicide before," he declares, then follows that jarring statement with a happy ending, 20 pages later: "I've never felt more creative in my life!" Murmurs of horrific Rikers realities are mere background noise, making them that much more pause-worthy.
The only thing jarring about the statement is the degree to which it has been overtaken by events as McCain now tries -- a la Palin the Earmark-Killer -- to rebrand himself as a Mr. Wall Street oversight and transparency when he's been pushing deregulation for 25 years.
So while Monday's statement may be jarring, it's not altogether surprising.
That statement jarred with the Saudi diplomat's comments.
But American plans to formally return sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30 were jarred by a statement questioning the American plan by the country's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
"I think a number of President Carter's statements and actions about Israel are jarring to the values of the institution," and to his personal values, he said.
The speech should contain light and shade, anecdotes and argument, self-analysis and soaring statements about the state of the country—all without jarring changes of gear.Last year the prime minister's address was revised little.
