I feel a bit behind the times here, with so many major things going on involving the election, the economy, et. al., and I haven’t really posted much of late. So, here is some potpourri, to catch up my thoughts on the latest and greatest stuff going on.
It’s kind of amazing to think that this election is looking more and more like a blow out as we get closer to election day. Even the mainstream media is starting to whiff the scale of what’s going on. People are hungry to see the wave crash over DC and sweep in a real Democratic majority. I’d love to see it, but I still won’t hold my breath until November 5th.
On that note, it’s amazing how badly McCain is campaigning. I mean amazing. Nothing he’s done seems to have been thought out or anything with him. The Palin pick? His stunt with shutting down his campaign due to the bailout? It just boggles the mind. When did John McCain go from being a serious politician to a pure yutz?
One of my favorite candidates from this election has been Darcy Burner. She’s running for Congress in Washington state. She’s got great progressive chops, seems like good peoples, and is still running for office despite losing all her possessions in a fire. That’s dedication.
The economy. Well, let me just say that this is what happens when you spend the past five years simply pushing around bad debt and making money on paper. The stock market got so over-inflated that when this bubble burst, it burst so hard that the correction to the market is going to be ridiculously painful.
I know I’m blogger #425653 to mention this, but someone might want to tell John McCain that he might be better off changing his tone a bit during the Olympics. Has anyone on his campaign staff actually, you know, watched the kind of commercials and noticed that they’re all kind of heartwarming and inspiring? Take, for example, Budweiser, which is rolling back out its heartwarming Clydesdale commercial from the Super Bowl. Or Coca-Cola, which has a billion and one different positive ads. Or Visa, which has those awesome Go World ones. What I’m trying to say is that people look for a certain type of commercial during these times, and John McCain’s negative ads are likely to leave a sour taste in most people’s mouths rather than convince them otherwise about Barack Obama. The Obama team seems to get it insofar that their ad is very positive and hits on his themes and gives a positive message. Sometimes this can be a real deal breaker if people really do get tired of the negative McCain ads before this thing is all over.
Alls I know is that the next time I see that stupid McCain ad while I’m trying to watch NBC’s ADHD Olympics broadcasts, I might be liable to hurl.
Could it be that there are finally cracks starting to show in the lovefest that the media has had with John McCain this campaign cycle? Not one, but two NY Times columnists have written about how little we know McCain, and his true nature.
We have a monumental double standard here. Mr. McCain has had trouble in his public comments distinguishing Sunnis from Shiites and had to be corrected in one stunningly embarrassing moment by his good friend Joe Lieberman. He has referred to a Iraq-Pakistan border when the two countries do not share a border.
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My guess is that most voters don’t see John McCain as an angry candidate, despite several very public lapses. The mythical John McCain is an affable, straight-talking, moderately conservative war hero who is an expert on foreign policy.
Barack Obama is not the only candidate the voters need to know more about.
Mr. McCain could also have stepped into the leadership gap left by Mr. Bush’s de facto abdication. His inability to even make a stab at doing so is troubling. While drama-queen commentators on television last week were busy building up false suspense about the Obama trip — will he make a world-class gaffe? will he have too large an audience in Germany? — few focused on the alarms that Mr. McCain’s behavior at home raise about his fitness to be president.
It’s sad to say, however, that this might be as close as we come to a real examination by the mainstream media of McCain’s shortcomings from his short temper to his inability to get his facts straight. There is little desire by the mainstream media to delve into it at any depth. I guess the food at his media barbeques is just that good.
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