Bill_Urick wrote on Sat, 30 August 2008 04:55 |
Interesting points. From reading this thread the biggest impression I have, as always, is the the level of venom coming from the left side of the console.
JJ, as an enlightened liberal who stands for equality and dignity for all mankind, don't you think your remarks are a little sexist?
I would expect more rejoicing over a gaff of the magnitude "ya'll" seem to think McCain has committed.
Instead I sense anger and outrage.
The important point here is how the VP selection effects the electability of each presidential candidate.
From this standpoint, Obama has erred and McCain has enhanced his position. More later, have to work today.
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A very interesting post. Unsurprisingly, the venom appears to me to be coming from the right side of the console, and most of it is right there in that quote. What a surprise.
I think this is all beside the point. Its pretty obvious no one has gotten behind Obama for his experience. His oratory, like JFK's and MLKs, is what's gotten people's pulses going a little faster. He inspires people. His speech Thursday night was unlike any a politcian has given in this country. JFK wasn't particularly experienced either when he got to the big house, and had a lot of learning to do very fast to understand the forces at work around him. He didn't learn fast enough, it appears.
The bigger mystery to me is what has happened to John McCain, formerly an articulate and vital man and who I, a recently as earlier this year, considered to be the last hope left for the decaying Republican party. His own party threw him to the dogs in 2000, when his being elected might have made a difference for the country, and they appear to have done it again. This bizarre choice just underscores that there's something going on there that's not quite kosher. Maybe he just really is too old for this. But I miss him.
The way Gore didn't defend himself from the incredible lies being told about him in 2000 (McCain tried but no one listened), the half-hearted campaigns that Kerry ran in 2004 and McCain is running now, its enough to make one think the paranoiacs are right and that these things are decided beforehand by a group of who-knows-what that we have no access to.
What I found really appalling was watching this Alaskan girl's face being so smug as she talked about her son going to Iraq, sacrificing him for the ability to brag about him. Blech. There was a time when McCain wouldn't have been associated with something so dim-witted. He was always able to bring a little more depth to the politicking. No more.
EDIT: I think Obama brings even more depth. A conversation between him and the McCain that used to be would have been good for everyone. But watching McCain's moves now, I no longer think that what we do matters much. I suspect these things are decided in corporate office suites and are based on ways of manipulating public perception so as to shift our money one way or another, but mostly just away from us and to the corporate elite. And so in the end, what matters most is who is leading China, and how much they think they still need us. Our own conservative financial experts have abandoned us (and needless to say, our men in uniform), and made billions doing it.
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