Katrina Part II - Or McSame Dodges One

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, George Bush and John McCain were celebrating McCain’s birthday (see birthday cake photo below).

This time around there’ll be no cake as Gustav bears down on the Crescent City, but McCain may be quietly thanking his lucky stars over the timing. President Bush and Dick Cheney are using the storm as an excuse to stay away from the Republican National Convention, something they couldn’t have done otherwise. (Source)

Since McCain doesn’t want to be tied to closely to this horribly unpopular president, it’s almost a relief that they’re not coming.

Talk of a truncated convention is not all bad news for John MCain either, since he is not the orator Barack Obama is by any means, and would look bad by comparison. Gustav may give McCain a reprieve on two fronts.

I’m not suggesting McCain wanted New Orleans to be threatened again by another major storm, but if it had to come, now’s a good time for his campaign.

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Cafferty on Palin

Friday, August 29th, 2008

McCain, the Original Flip Flopper

In Jack Cafferty’s column for CNN.com he rightly points out that for the last several months, all we’ve heard form John McCain was how young and inexperienced Obama is.

So what does McCain do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is even younger than Barack Obama and has less experience.

- Jack Cafferty (source)

Experience is necessary, unless it isn’t McCain seems to be saying. Perhaps as someone noted, McCain should finish the debate with himself, before proceeding to the general election

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McCain Picks Miss Congeniality as Veep Choice

Friday, August 29th, 2008

John McCain picked a former Alaska beauty pageant’s Miss Congeniality (source) as his running mate. Sarah Palin, who less than two years ago got elected Governor of Alaska, will join McCain as his running mate.

Her political experience is less than zero, and since McCain, if elected would be the oldest man ever to take the Oath of Office, Palin’s novice status is highly relevant.

Better watch out Cindy, she’s young and a former beauty queen like yourself. She’s a lot like you were when John was cheating on his disabled first wife with you. (source)

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Obama Scores Big at Bronco’s Stadium

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Speaking last night to 84,000 wildly cheering Americans at Denver’s Invesco Field (formerly Mile High Stadium), Barack Obama literally scored on every play.

One early example was when he, after making sure to first honor John McCain for his military service, added:

“Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time?”

- Sen. Barack Obama

The line received applause and laughter, and left no doubt that this nominee was going to be hitting back and hitting back hard on his Republican opponent. He was not taking the high road of the last two Democratic candidates, but in fact had saved many of the attacks on his opponent for his own speech, something quite uncommon.

But this entire Obama candidacy is quite uncommon. It’s story is so remarkable as to be a uniquely American tale. Plucked from obscurity by his phenomenal 2004 speech to the DNC, when he was a lowly Illinois State Senator. A scant four years later he’s standing before 84,000 people to accept their nomination as the party’s standard bearer.

His meteoric rise is evidence that this nation is ready for change, but the politics of fear will come into play in the next 67 days also. The Republican election machine has much experience in scaring voters, and will pull out all the stops this time.

Even so, I don’t think it will be enough. Obama’s campaign will continue to tie McCain to Bush Cheney, which will be made even easier following the Republican convention where they are both slated to speak.

McCains’ in trouble, but like a cornered animal he’s still dangerous. His campaign has already shown it will stoop to any low, and expect it to get worse over the final two months.

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