I’m getting sick of hearing McCain say things like: “Obama is running for redistributor in chief, I’m running for commander in chief.”
It’s just a really lame thing to say. Who are his speechwriters? Seriously, who are these people who think McCain’s audience is that dumb?
If I were a McCain supporter, I would be personally insulted. In the last efforts of a campaign that is looking less favorable to him as the days dwindle, McCain continues to be insulting to his own audience by pandering to them with lame (and extremely cynical) canned phrases that assume they are stupid and will believe whatever comes out of his mouth.
It’s sad and I think Johnny boy will see that on voting day, his condescension will come back to haunt him–not that Obama needs the extra help.
To say the John McCain campaign is floundering would be an understatement. His campaign is in its last throes–not in the Dick Cheney sense of the words, which would mean that “last throes” could last for several years.
With Obama taking the lead in 8 key electoral vote states, McCain is on the attack. He’s attacking Obama’s credibility by asking voters: “What do you know about Obama?” He’s attacking people Obama has been associated with. And he has the Palin robot delivering folksy doubletalk, saying Obama “pals around” with terrorists.
We only have one more month to deal with these people. Palin will fade away with a million dollar book deal and no Oprah appearance. John McCain will fade back into the Good Ole Boy Washington woodwork.
John McCain, if he isn’t already, will rue the day he cancelled his appearance on Letterman. McCain is now the brunt of more jokes from David Letterman because the reason he said he was cancelling (which was untrue) was that he needed to go to Washington to help fix the economic crisis.
But instead, during the taping of Letterman’s show, McCain was three blocks away getting his make-up done in preparation for an interview with Katie Couric. As Letterman pointed out, he wasn’t exactly rushing to the airport.
Now that the economic crisis has only worsened, McCain can expect a lot more jokes from Letterman. This guy has no clue.
Check out this website, where you can see Sarah Palin’s answers to the very few interview questions she has been asked during her short tenure as John McCain’s running.
According to an article in the Washington Post, vice presidential “candidate” Sarah Palin accepted close to $25,000 in gifts including a “gold-nugget pin” worth $1,200 from the historic mining community of Nome. That year she approved $6 million dollars in funds to the city. She received some of these gifts after forwarding an ethics reform bill to the legislature.
Granted, gifts like “an Aleut woven basket, a sea otter headband, a Tlingit rattle and an Athabascan chief necklace” (collectively adding up to approximately $1,000), a $300 whale baleen basket, a $300 woven grass fan (is that made out of the kind of grass you weigh by the ounce?), and an ivory necklace worth $150 may seem quaint, folksy, and harmless, but if you were to glad-hand me a “$2,200 ivory puffin mask”, I’d be ready to talk business with you Alaska ethics reform style.
I think what “Governor” Palin might have actually meant by reform was maybe reforming the type of gifts people in Alaska seem to give. It’s like, hey guys I’m all for whalebone chotchkas and sea otter pelt tapestries, but how about giving me something I can use, ya know.
In other Sarah Palin news, watch this video of her interview with Katie Couric. In one of her rare media talking appearances, Governor Palin gets field-dressed–err–gets dressed-down by the ever-feisty Couric. An interesting thing about this video is that you can watch as Palin shuffles through different talking points in her mind and excitedly lands on one that sounds like it might work.
Striking a de rigeur campaign pose, Palin drops a lot of rhetoric and doesn’t really say anything even though her lips move a lot. I mean, a lot of words come out, but it’s like, come on, answer the question robot-woman. She really struggles when confronted with the “I can see Russia from my state” comment in the second video here offering a stammering account of how Alaska is the entry point from Russia and how Putin “rears his head”, but to her interviewer’s credit, Couric generously helps Sar-Pal fill in the gaps and quickly moves on.
It’s no new story that politicians, pundits, and talking heads change their tunes depending on the audience, circumstance, and the direction of the political winds. The way these guys can turn on a dime rivals anything the best NFL running back can do on the gridiron.
With the Sarah Palin decision, the ease with which certain political mouthpieces can change their own stances on issues has never been more obvious.
In this Daily Show clip, Jon Stewart doesn’t need to say much. It’s all on video.
A recent article at Salon about Barack Obama’s super marketing machine goes into some of the details of what the Obama campaign probably knows about you.
The Obama campaign is a well-oiled machine based on grassroots organizing and cross-referenced databases of facts and extrapolations.
This a very interesting and short article about how Obama is trying to get his message out to the people most likely to vote for him and how he tailors his message or emphases depending on who his campaign is communicating to.
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