(I just got a scathing email demanding that I refrain from posting on McCain. ...unreal...but...fuck um) I heard a comedian in L.A, recently that had a funny but true line on McCain. He said he's like the Father of your high school girlfriend. He's got that nervous little laugh and the feigned smile where your not really sure what he's gonna do next...maybe hug you or maybe slap you.
Politics is one of the only fields where analysis and prediction is even more worthless than in the markets.
Hey, there's plenty of fun stuff to go around: "Hillary Clinton announced today sheâll appear on 'The O'Reilly Factor.' That should be a great confrontation. On one side, a loudmouthed bully who wants to tear apart the Democratic Party and on the other side, there's Bill O'Reilly." --Craig Ferguson
Here's some more: "You see Barack Obama at that rally surrounded by all those Kennedys? Man, I couldn't tell if he was running for president or bartender." --Jay Leno
26% OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS AGAINST MCCAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA... 22% GO AGAINST MCCAIN IN INDIANA... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPUBLICANS ON HILL SHELLSHOCKED AND BROKE... ...EYE NEW LEADERS
Given that the Republican nomination has already been decided, these numbers (26% and 22%) only reflect a "pay attention to me and my particular needs" feeling. McCain will do that, don't worry. But his first target will be the centrist Independents, that's his strategy. We'll see, the situation is very fluid.
Yannis, agree with you completely re PACs and the labels they will try to pin on Obama. However, one label that just won't stick is "the most liberal Senator". This has been stated over and over, but it is not factual. Check out Obama's voting record! There is virtually no difference between Clinton and Obama and a number of other senators. The label "Liberal" has been so mis-used as of late, i no longer know what it means, but by the cavalier way it is thrown around it would often seem to mean "non-neocon." And by that definition, even the old-style Russell Kirk Conservatives, such as myself, are "liberals." Compared with the reactionary, right-wing, born-again, idealog, borrow-and-spend, shoot-from-the-hip, mission-accomplished, stem-cell-research-thwarting, "Christian-god-on-our-side-war-mongering neocons that control the executive branch now, all three candidates, including John McCain, are flaming liberals. And thank goodness for that. Any of three candidates would be a welcome change to the vast majority of the American people.
piezoe, Liberal means hard left, that's all. And Obama, according to most sources, is one of the leftmost: he'll make a terrible president if he gets the job, on that count alone. You just can't help throwing insults out instead of arguments, right? I just wish we get a President as good as GWB, he'll be hard to replace. His real record on defense, economy, education and social welfare is way up there, better than Clinton's by a long shot. But, the media want drama to save themselves from their slow internet death and decided to oppose him every step of the way to sell papers and magazines... and many people listened to them to the great detriment of this country. Let's see what McCain will do.