"I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin."

[Pirate Smile]

Dear Old Golden Dog Days

I miss the good old days. Remember when the presidential campaign was all about oil drilling? That sure was fun.
I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin.

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Remember when McCain’s campaign ads were all about his being a prisoner of war? I really miss them.
Now they’re all about the Evil That Is Obama. The newest one, “Ambition,” has a woman, speaking in one of those sinister semiwhispers, saying: “When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied.” Then suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, she starts ranting about Congressional liberals and risky subprime loans. Then John McCain pops up to say he approved it. All in 30 seconds! And, of course, McCain would think it’s great. For the first time, the Republicans appear to have captured his thought process on tape.

The Republican campaign strategy now involves sending their candidates to areas where everybody is a die-hard McCain supporter already. Then they yell about Obama until the crowd is so frenzied people start making threats. The rest of the country is supposed to watch and conclude that this would be an enjoyable way to spend the next four years.

Maybe the Republicans should have picked somebody else. I miss Mitt Romney. Sure, he was sort of smarmy. But when Mitt was around, the banks had money and Iceland was solvent. And, of course, when we got bored, we could always talk about how he drove to Canada with his Irish setter strapped to the car roof.


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I miss the old Cindy McCain. The one who used to go to rallies and sit huddled in the corner looking as if she thought the audience had a communicable disease. Now, she’s right up there on stage, standing behind her husband and making disgusted faces when he rails on about the opposition. And she’s started railing herself. (The family that rants together ...) Obama is waging “the dirtiest campaign in American history.” His votes on Iraq were votes “not to fund my son when he was serving.”
Remember when the McCains wouldn’t talk about the fact that their son was in Iraq? Oh well.

Palin has been pressing the line that people don’t really know “the real Barack Obama,” and who could make the argument better than a woman who we’ve already known for almost six weeks? Really, she’s like one of the family.
We’ve gotten so close we’ve already learned that she didn’t actually sell the plane on eBay, didn’t actually visit the troops in Iraq and didn’t really have a talk with the British ambassador. As soon as we get the Trooper thing and Alaska Independence Party thing and the tax thing figured out, she’ll be an open book.



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/opinion/11collins.html?ref=opinion

[krkaufman]

1. She had me at "August was neat." n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. lol. Me too.

[Pirate Smile]

9. My favorite was pinning for smarmy Mitt when we could talk about his trip with

the Irish Shepherd on the roof.

Remember the photo-shops? Obama was only an empty suit celebrity elitist back then, not a scary manchurian terrorist. Oh, those were the days.

[Median Democrat]

2. McCain Apologists Often Say That This Campaign Does Not Really Reflect The "Real" John McCain

My take is that McCain is the presidential candidate, and if this is not his choice, then perhaps the reality is that all he has is ambition, but no core beliefs. Or, perhaps this is the real McCain who can hold a grudge, and sees conflict in very personal terms, and that this campaign reflects his personal disdain for Obama as an opponent the way McCain disdained both Bush and Romney when he ran against them. Perhaps McCain's passion is not for his country, but prevailing over his opponent of the moment.

I confess that back in 2000 I would have seriously considered voting for McCain, and even contributed to his campaign based on his early message. However, McCain and Palin have been doing their best impressions of Pat Buchanan in the past month, and they have managed to out-smear Bush, since I don't recall some of the violent rhetoric I now hear being raised against Kerry or Gore. It is both amazing and sad just how desparate McCain has become. McCain's reputation, which may very well have been unjustified in the first place, is now largely ripped apart, and the blame falls squarely upon McCain. No candidate has done so an effective job of destroying John McCain's reputation and image as John McCain himself. It is both comic and tragic at the same time.

I now would never vote for him, and would have serious concerns for our countries peace and prosperity if he were elected.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. But Obama didn't have a double digit lead in August.

[TTUBatfan2008]

5. I miss August and September...

I still had a job. :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. awwwww. Hope you have a job again soon.

:hi:

[TTUBatfan2008]

7. Thank you...

:)

[Pirate Smile]

8. kick