Seems that many of my dem friends are aghast that Johnny McSame is close or even ahead in the so-called national polls. People forget that the pollsters get their data from respondents on land line telephones, and not cell phones. I don’t know anyone in this day and age under 30, a big constituency of Obama’s support, who still has a land line, so these polls can hardly be reflective. In fact, cell phones are increasingly becoming the sole communications tool for most age groups, which could render today’s polling methods obsolete.
Dems also seem to be appalled that McCain could receive a sizable bounce after selecting a light-weight, bible-thumping, gun-tooting’ moose hunter from a distant area of land even further north than most of Canada. They can’t believe that our guy Obama is at best even in spite of all the fibs, distortions and outright lies the McCain camp regurgitates, and this in spite of some surprise mild protestations from our cowered media who normally cave at the slightest hint of right wing backlash, and the related threat to cut off ad revenues to the corporate owners they work for.
Heartbeat away VP pick Sarah Palin can talk about end times all she wants, but we’ve been there twice, in 2000 and 2004 and hell ain’t pretty. Call me naive, I just don’t think it’s going to be a three-fer, for two reasons: the polls aren’t accurate and McCain’s political advisor’s have gone "all in" with a dead hand.
Lemme ‘splain: McCain’s Rovian advisor’s, all lobbyists shilling for the military industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about way back in 1960, are so desperate to keep power, that they’ll do anything to win. They can’t make money during peace time. Only after 8 years of the disaster called Bush, their normal disgusting tactics won’t be enough and so they’re going to have to sink to even lower levels. That’s why they’re lying through their teeth at levels even a grade two class clown could see through. They’ve got absolutely nothing to lose. Of course they can’t run on the issues, the wars, the state of the economy. All they’ve got is throw crap at Obama and the democrats and hope 51/% of American voters fall for it a third time.
I don’t think so. The repubs read the tea leaves after the very successful dem convention, which didn’t implode as they were hoping, and decided they had nothing to lose. So they risked everything on an unvetted nobody hoping to pander to their base and disgruntled Hillary supporters, and what did they get? A VP candidate so weak they can’t even let her talk to the press until she goes to the GOP College of Talking Points first.
Barak Obama may not be a killer when it comes to a political mud fight, but he doesn’t have to be. All he has to do is call a "major" press conference in front of the assembled cameras and scribes and simply state:
"These are serious times, people at home and abroad are suffering miserably because of the policies of the Bush administration the past eight years. I have put forth serious and detailed solutions to correct and change this failed course. Meanwhile, my opponent John McCain, is running a campaign based on the same old tired, GOP game of false innuendos, a tactic he pledged not to do this time around. Well, John McCain lied to you about that, just as he’s lying about what I’ve promised. He talks about putting country first yet he selects as his VP running mate a candidate who’s only qualifications are appealing to the most radical, extreme fringes of his party. John McCain has approved ads that want you to think about pigs, lipstick and kindergarten sex. That’s because he doesn’t want you focusing on real issues, issues that effect you and your families. Issues that effect the safety of our country."
"I think it’s about time the media, that’s you folks, started doing your job. Your job as the forth estate is to keep politicians honest. If I tell a lie or mislead, then by all means call me on it. If John McCain tells a lie, or misleads you, which he is doing every day, then you have an obligation on behalf of our country to bring this to the voter’s attention. It hardly serves the interests of our nation to allow a professional politician, someone who is trained to spin facts, to use you as their megaphone to get away with untruths in a false effort to be fair, because in the end we all suffer."
"That’s all I ask. Any questions?"
If all we asked as citizens and voters was for the media to do their jobs, and they did, we never would have heard the name George W. Bush.