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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
One can only hope.
If McCain had actually been a populist, rather than a faux maverick, he would have seized the moment when the House initially rejected the bailout, and positioned himself as leader of a spontaneous citizens' tax revolt. He could've easily portrayed the Democrats as teaming up with Bush to milk the taxpayers on behalf of the Wall Street fat cats. That would've been one hell of a surprise, dramatically changing the course of the election.
I suspect this was McCain's original instinct in "suspending" his campaign and threatening to skip the first Presidential debate. He flew to DC to confer face-to-face with the breakaway Republican Congressmen who blocked the bailout in order to gauge their long-term resolve.
But McCain was no doubt confronted by his corporate backers as well, who have a considerable vested interest in the bailout. Judging by his snarling demeanor at the debate, McCain probably found himself cock-blocked by the real powers that be, who could care less which Republicrat gets elected in the end.
Whenever I hear the diatribe about Obama being the Manchurian candidate for Islam, I always respond that we have no idea what kind of brain washing McCain underwent in Vietnam. For all we know, he is the true Manchurian candidate for the Vietcong...
What a sad joke this campaign has become.
he's really keyed up now.
He better calm himself before tomorrow's debate -- acting like this in front of a national audience would be quite a spectacle.
I guess this is all you have left when you have no substance and plenty of blind ambition.
Pathetic.
Glenn said:The more they unmask themselves this way, the more smashing will be their defeat, the longer their banishment will be.
The right is doing everything it can to steal the election. Rigged voting, scaring away minorities from the poll precincts, lying up a storm. They will do ANYTHING to win. The people calling the shots have no sense of ethics.
What amazes me is that the people I know who support McCain/Palin are worse off under his policies (not to speak of Bush and Co.) So goes America?
Let's not hold our breath. It ain't over till it's over. Tough times are ahead for us all.
I was thinking during my morning commute today about the brilliant German film from 2004, Downfall (Der Untergang), with Bruno Ganz as Hitler. After Hitler's suicide in the bunker, we witness the suicides of Goebbels and his wife, after his wife poisoned their children. And then outside the bunker, various suicides of field officers and other dead enders, who cannot bear the future without their fallen leader. And the comparison came to mind about the 25% or so that still love and support Bush. And I see that support being transferred over to Palin. I don't see, however, any epidemic of suicides after Obama wins. I realize that in America, we cannot compare the Right to Nazi Germany, that is verboten. Any historical comparisons/lessons, in fact, are only to be used to shed light on the decadent Left. The Right in this country is sui generis, without historical parallel, or so all the right wing freaks would have us believe. Okay, so forget everything I wrote....
What money these people do have will be funneled into 527's and the like in the last month as campaign fund source accountability will be forgotten after the election. These are desperate individuals, many of whom have broken many laws over the last eight years and fear their own accountability if a somewhat normal rule of law is re-established. Buckle down and don't relax because of improving poll numbers.
The McCain / Palin act will be a sordid, ugly affair over the coming weeks. They're not going to start telling the truth or acting ethically anytime soon. That much is obvious. Keep up the great work Glenn.
Obama will need to hold the face of the McCain campaign firmly in the sewage they're spewing while pointing the way out of this mess to rational voters. It's a tough task, but I think he's up to it.
Every baseless smear serves from McCain establishes a precedent to allow Obama to use a LOT of negative material on McCain and Palin. The trick is when and how to use that information.
as it becomes more and more obvious that those who seem to have absorbed his message the most, use it to such hideous ends. I wonder when the McCain Campaign will get desperate enough to send out fliers of Obama dressed as a Muslim with a Palestinian flag in the background, ala a reverse of Barthes' Algerian soldier. Oh crap! I just outed myself as a member of the crypto-commie, educated elite! Don't tell anyone...
sorry I don't have much more to say; you said it all.
Cheers
Andrew
The surest sign that a candidacy is bankrupt of ideas is when it begins the character assasination of its opponent. McCain may once have been a man of integrity, but that is all gone now. This man is nothing but a sleazy liar, and Sarah Palin is his wretched homunculus.
He's baiting Obama before the debate tomorrow.
If they think that's a good idea, McCain's campaign still hasn't realized who they're up against.
Who's funding Obama's campaign?
I am, along with millions of my fellow Americans.
(And I'm about to toss in another $50.)
He has to go all in now on attacking Obama directly. As the economy continues to tank, he knows that he is tied to it directly through Phil Gramm and before that, through Keating. The Keating video Obama released today is killer and it will finish off McCain if enough people see it. Only by changing the topic to direct personal attacks can he get attention away from the economy. As Glenn stated, this approach is likely to backfire in a big way.
One way it will backfire is through the unprecedented involvement of young people in this election. Gallup just released a poll today on 18-29 year olds and they have been paying a lot of attention. They see this election as possibly the most important in a generation and they are choosing Obama by about two to one. I wrote an Oxdown Gazette diary about the poll today. It is linked at my name.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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