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Who will save your soul after all the lies that you told,
Who will save your soul if you won't save your own?
It's been hard enough to accept John McCain's hypocritical claim that negative ads don't work and that "people are not going to be fooled by negative campaigns," even as he was running negative ads. Worse are the GOP campaign events whose fear-mongering speeches and violent crowd reactions are whipped up by hyperbolic and thinly veiled racist rhetoric. McCain's rebuttals have been weak, including redressing a claim that Obama is an Arab by positing that he's a good family man, as if that's the opposite of "Arab." Most vexing is McCain's two-faced endorsement of such tactics when surrounded by friendlies, but his reticence to levy such slander when meeting his opponent face to face.
McCain has apparently sold his soul to win the presidency, showing himself an unscrupulous man of low ethics. He's denigrated whatever heroism that was demonstrated as a POW, running a spineless campaign that does his dirty work at a distance, rather than manning up for hand-to-hand combat. Rolling Stone's highly biased profile of McCain suggests this is nothing new, but even as you read the piece with a mountain of salt, the patterns depicted fit McCain's current behavior with an alarming snugness.
The mob responses of "bomb Obama," "commie faggot," "one man terror cell" are even catching the notice of conservatives like David Gergen, William Milliken, and Ray LaHood. William F. Buckley Jr.'s son has jumped off the McCain bandwagon and will be voting for Obama, as will Frank Schaeffer.
How much lower can McCain go?
How many more erratic actions and decisions?
How many more lies?
How many more operatives deployed to stir up the hate he clearly endorses but with which he won't dirty his own hands?
McCain & Palin turn to character assassination as the DJIA drops below 10,000 for the first time in 4 years. Is that their plan for resucing the economy - Rovian innuendo and errant summaries of others' reporting? Obama's "rebuttal" offers up McCain's associations with the Keating 5 and Phil Gramm -- not very encouraging, either.
Perhaps we all need to stop for a moment and turn to the groovy sounds of The Mike Flowers Pops and "Light My Fire":
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I think I'm more frightened about whats going on in our government just because I don't fully understand it all.
How is it that the tough frontier governor from Alaska is too timid to answer questions from media at press conferences? How could anyone vote for a ticket of which half refuses to explain themselves? It might be different if she had a track record that could be extrapolated to a vice-presidency, but she doesn't. Her experience in Alaska - as a mayor of a small town and as a governor of a state of roughly 700,000 citizens - isn't easily traceable to being a heartbeat away from presiding over the United States.
She may very well be the right person for the vice-presidency, but if she is, why isn't she out making that point? Is it because the Republican campaign managers are a bunch of sexists? Is it because McCain and the GOP want to win at any cost, even if it means dangling a piece of fundamentalist chum in the water? If McCain really believed in "Country First," wouldn't he have picked a running mate who could actually perform the duties of the office - one of which is interacting with the press?
Even conservative columnists like Kathleen Parker and and Kathryn Lopez think something's not right.
Too bad Springsteen's appearance at the Superbowl™ will be too late for him to impact the election with a medley of selections from The Ghost of Tom Joad and The Seeger Sessions.
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I loved the SNL skits the past 2 weeks - here's a great one - starts with the SNL skit and then shows the actual Palin/Couric interview
The press will just play "gotcha". The basic conceit here is that she's incapable of learning what she needs to know. That is something I reject based on her track record. Your insults & slanders notwithstanding, her constituents think very highly of her overall, and there's no reason at all to assume she doesn't have the intellectual wherewithall to get caught up to speed on what she needs to know. And to stay away from the press until she is. Just as The Good Sen Obama did for the first year of his campasign. The hubris of the press and the calumny of the rabid left has certainly drawn the notice of middle America.
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When you ride the Tiger, you run the risk of becoming it's next meal. The Maverick Thing was fine for the "distant trumpeter" who wasn't the front runner. But The Standard Bearer has to court disparate voting blocs, and runs the risk of looking/acting like a "sidewalk stewardess" as one tries to formulate a winning platform/message. Usually this is hashed out/fine tuned immediately after the convention, barring extraordinary events. Extraordinary events have turned the campaign's fair grounds into a swamp, and it's "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" for John McCain. Hubert H. Humphrey must be watching this from Political Purgatory and wondering what to say to this latest victim of "tar baby" syndrome. These are such "interesting times" we live in. (I see that Barack Obama hasn't fallen into the "George McGovern pit"...yet.)