Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A Few Good Men (Spoof)

I found this comment on MSNBC’s First Read blog and I had to post it here.
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Déjà vu- Two Good Men

American Voters: *Senator McCain, did you order the negative campaigning?*
Fox News: You *don’t* have to answer that question!
Senator McCain: I’ll answer the question!
[to American Voters]
You want answers?
American Voters: I think we’re entitled.
Senator McCain: *You want answers?*
American Voters: *We want the truth!*
Senator McCain: *You can’t handle the truth!*
Son, I mean Senator Obama, we live in a country that has morons, and those morons have to be pummeled by Rush, Sean, Sarah and me with lies. Whose gonna do it?  You, Senator Obama?  You, Senator Biden? I have a greater disability than you could possibly fathom. You keep pulling ahead in the polls, and you have a great campaign. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that the gullibility of many voters, while tragic, might save my ass.  And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saved the GOP. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me to forget the economy, you need me to negatively campaign. We use words like Ayers, Muslim and liar. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent attacking opponents. You use them as a punchline.  I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises above the very civility that I can only pray for, and then questions the manner in which I mock it. I would rather you just said “what a loser”, and went on your way.  Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a ballot, and vote. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
American Voter: Did you order the negative campaigning?
Senator McCain: I did the job I…
American voter: *Did you order the negative campaigning?*
Senator McCain: *You’re damned right I did!*

On November 4, vote for Senator Barack Obama for President and Senator Joe Biden for Vice President.

Chuck, Ny (Sent Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:34 AM)

Posted by jawillie in 15:36:09 | Permalink | Comments (2)

McCain - 0, That One - 3

I mentioned in my last entry that McCain needed a decisive win in last night’s debate.  He not only didn’t get it, he may have lost ground with his own base, not to mention stirred up some anger on the left.


 

Like their Obama vs. McCain I, there was no real “gotcha” moment.  No major gaffe or egregious error on either part.  Surprisingly, though, given the attack tone of the McCain campaign over the past few days there was no mention of Will Ayers or Keating 5 (kind of hard to bring up that kind of BS in a town hall format).  However, there was a moment that some would say was disrespectful on McCain’s part when he referred to Obama as “that one”.  Though I would call it a stretch to say that it was racist (as some Obama supporters have alleged), it was certainly dismissive.  Of course, McCain’s camp has tried to defend this, but still in a debate the rule is “attack with honor”.  There was certainly no honor in that gesture.

 

He also tried for a game changer when he produced a proposal to buy up all of the failing mortgages and reset them at the new values of the homes.  Excuse me, did I miss a memo?  Aren’t we paying $700b to do just that?  This is not just taking someone else’s idea and calling it your own.  He’s taking a plan that’s been implemented and calling it his own, and plans to add it onto the implemented plan.  This is a prime example of “old man yells at clouds”.

 

Obama, on the other hand, was his usual cool and composed self.  In other words, boring.  Of course, he’s not the one with the bar to clear here.  His job was to look presidential, which he has done effortlessly over the past few weeks.  So one could say that “boring” is the new “presidential”.

 

Score this one for Obama.  Not that he did anything particularly spectacular.  But he denied McCain his needed game changing moment, which was what he set out to do.  The momentum will continue his way in the coming polls, and so will the attacks from McCain and co.  Obama vs. McCain III next week.

 

 

Oh, btw.  Not related, but I have to put a link to this.  It’s a link to Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Monday’s Countdown regarding Sarah Palin’s attacks on Obama.  Great stuff and I just had to share it.

 

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27057346#27057346

 

Posted by jawillie in 12:30:20 | Permalink | Comments (1) »