Please pay more attention to McCain!

In particular, pay attention to what he says now compared to what he's said in the past.

As much as I'm looking forward to the Obama/McCain debate, I'm hoping someone will put together a McCain/McCain debate video.

... the media's shallow coverage of the race, and I'm bored with the McCain trolls who hang out at here.

If you want to support McCain, then honestly support him. Don't pretend to be an "long-time Democrat" supposedly disgusted by Obama's supposed "turn to the right".

And for the people who supposedly can't see a difference between McCain and Obama, I have to wonder whether you gouged your eyes out back in 2000.

Is that why McCain dumped his first wife after getting involved with someone younger and richer? Because he puts the country first? Was that also why he came to the defense of Charles Keating? Was it why he helped get us involved in an unnecessary and dishonest war and occupation that have damaged our military, our economy, and our standing in the world? Is that why he keeps changing his stances on everything from tax breaks for the rich to the use of torture?

And Obama spent years doing community organizing in Chicago's South Side because he puts himself first?

(You'd think after witnessing decades of seeing "down" successfully re-imaged as "up" in political advertising and other marketing scams, I'd stop being so flabbergasted at the sheer chutzpah of it. Maybe it's that they keeping getting more brazen about it.)

It helps even less when people who only read the headlines and listen to the pundits buy into the storyline of Obama's supposedly oh-so-dramatic changes of position.

The thought of William F. Buckley criticizing liberals for elitism is as hilariously ironic as George Will doing so.

Let's face reality

The average American is the most stupid, gullible and ignorant person on earth.

Bullshit.

It's not that most of us can't understand or don't want to understand what's going on, it's that most of the systems that we get our information from are flawed (at best) and corrupted in various ways by corporate influence.

Garbage in, garbage out. All things considered, it's actually impressive that as many people do as well as they do, given the amount of shit shoveled at them.

I rolled my eyes at Obama's suggestion for more stimulus checks, but at least he wants to fund them from oil company windfall profits and target them to low- and middle-income people.

Presumably Rove is trying to feed the spin of McCain as "humble", in comparison to that uppity Obama.

I'm looking forward to when one of the right-wing tools

...slips up and actually calls Obama "Uppity."

Cause you know they will

You mean, when they call him that in public. Seems like a sucker bet to speculate that at least some of them have already used the word in private. (And not just right-wing tools, either.)

Also, as I've said before, I wonder how much of the claim that Obama seems arrogant -- to whatever extent it's a real reaction -- has as much to do with the fact that in addition to not "knowing his place", he doesn't know his supporters' place.

I wasn't born yesterday, and I don't assume that his talk about how "we are the change we have been waiting for" is simply an honest appeal for participatory citizenship. (Though his history does seem to imply that there's something to it.) And I'm sure that most of his opponents assume that it's just a shallow appeal to populism. But to whatever extent they harbor the suspicion that he might be serious, I'm sure the possibility appalls and frightens them.

To most of the current Republican leadership (as well as some of the Democratic leadership), the thought of large numbers of citizens actively participating in the civic process is probably both offensive and scary. The fewer people engaged in the process, the easier it is to manipulate it.

In fact, I wonder if the "fatigue" storyline -- which is a variant of a storyline that goes back decades, at least -- will be leaned on harder and harder as November approaches, even in the face of huge numbers of newly registered voters and large crowds continuing to turn out to listen to Obama.