Letters to the Editor
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Too Much Exposur?
I bet all politicians wish they had that problem :-)
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I'm concerned
Actually, I'm not.
I'll make a prediction. The upcoming debates will be the highest rated debates in at least a few decades. Everyone loves a good ass kicking, and Obama will deliver one.
People think Obama isn't all that great at debating, because he had to debate Clinton with one arm tied behind his back. The first rule of debate, when I was a debater, was: "never agree with your opponent." Obama and Clinton's policies were so similar that the minor points of disagreement were just too nuanced to be interesting.
McCain is a different story. Obama must be respectful, but he doesn't have to tiptoe around, hoping not to piss people off. It will be a welcome sight to behold. He'll do better than Bill Clinton did when he mopped the floors with Bush/Dole, not only because he's extremely intelligent, and works hard, but because McCain is a drooling moron that can't keep from contradicting himself every 5 minutes. Bush Sr., and Bob Dole, much as I dislike them, are very intelligent men. The only candidate that would be an easier pushover for Obama than McCain would be GWB, and even that's questionable.
Well, maybe Ted Stevens and his series of tubes.
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UR DOIN IT RONG
says unnamed ‘well placed’ democratic consultant….
Tell Bob Shrum to piss off –we’re no buying any! We would like to win this time.
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What I have
is PUMA fatigue.
Oh, Salon, how I wish I could quit you.
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God I hope so
"...there comes in politics a moment where what was once exhilarating ...becomes predictable and commonplace."
I look forward to being blasé about a president without contempt for the rest of the world, who doesn't filter world affairs through the lens of petro-machismo, who is well read and makes do without poisonous ideological blinders. A president who doesn't have to pretend to be an uneducated boob, who isn't afraid to pronounce "nuclear" correctly. I look forward to yawning at the same old-same old of a president who doesn't take his marching orders from the House of Saud and the shadowy entities behind the National Prayer Breakfast.
Please, please bore me, President Obama!
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Oh yeah!
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.
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You know what's boring?
--The MSM pundits who keep regurgitating the same question: Why hasn't Obama done better than he has when the real question is why isn't a multi-term Senator, former presidential candidate, and war hero blowing Obama out of the water.
--The MSM pundits that seem to talk only to themselves and so continue to claim that Obama can't get the votes of Hispanics, Jews, women or working class white men despite polls showing otherwise.
--The MSM pundits who insist the race is very close when four recent polls show Obama with an average 100 electoral vote lead.
--The MSM pundits who still have trouble admitting that McCain is contradicting himself, acting like a fool (cf. the bikers' rally), and running a lousy campaign--just like Dole did-- because they have such fondness for some image of him long since exploded by the man's words and deeds.
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obama fatigue
I like Obama, I'm voting for Obama, I contribute to Obama, and yes, I'm freakin' tired of hearing about him. So what? If the MSM covered McCain, they'd have a snoozefest. Maybe they should just turn their attention from politics to the olympics for the next couple of weeks.
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Tired of the vapid, change we can believe in message...
He's 'compromised' himself so much I have no idea what principles he holds.
I am looking forward to the debates with McSame. Will Obama give a stirring, but substance free, performance? Or, if he does speak to the issues, will they be more lies along the lines of FISA, public financing, offshore drilling, and so on?
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Clinton fatigue
Now if only Salon would quit harping on hillary and bill and their drama, whether sexual, social or political.
So Obama has more exposure. They call it fatigue or is it the MSM forwarding their less than maverick candidate McCain who is fast slipsliding away to incoherence?
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Don't be alarmed. The whole purpose of this article is to take our emotional temperature.
Salon isn't getting as many of those 400 post responses lately. They will use this article to gauge whether they should go back to talking about Paris Hilton ... Oh wait!
John McCain is already doing that.
Maybe Obama needs a new speech. Here's an idea. He can begin his convention speech by saying that they said it couldn't be done. He can point out that his mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya and that only a year earlier they couldn't have gotten married in Hawaii because of miscegnation laws ...
No, that's wrong. Scratch that. The important thing is that they got together when she was seventeen and he was what? Twenty-three, I think, and then they married and then Obama was born post haste.
"I was born ..."
No wait. That's another story. Charles Dickens. Obama must strive for originality. Always employ his own words.
He can say that he is uniquely qualified to bring us together. That's good. He hasn't used that before. (Oh well, maybe he has but who's counting. I got weary of county soooo long ago.)
Then he can talk about bipartisanship. It's all symbolic, you see. He is a walking symbol of togetherness. And thin. Like that tower everyone is so upset about.
(You know I took a look at the most recent 'Celeb' ad and I realized that people might just be right about the symbolism of that tower. Obama can create an ad in which he keeps showing photos of a limp noodle. And then McCain and then the limp noodle again. Also, maybe a tire gauge if that isn't too phallic. He can show air being sucked out of a tire.)
Back to the speech. Obama can explain that his parentage > togetherness > bipartisanship > telecom immunity = NO UGLY TRIALS TO HOLD ADMINISTRATION CRIMINALS RESPONSIBLE FOR SPYING ON AMERICANS, SECRET PRISONS, TORTURE, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST LYING AND THE WHOLE EFFING WAR will not keep us from coming together. That last is important because one must put something substantive in every speech. (Remember in his Berlin speech his one substantive nugget was that he wanted the Germans to send more troops to Afghanistan.)
He must not forget to say that "We are the ones that we have been waiting for" -- ending a sentence in a preposition, but it is not as if that really matters.
He will remind us not to let ourselves be bamboozled or hoodwinked.
Then he can say, "Yes, we can!"
See, it's really simple. Okey-doke?
Ain't UNITY grand?