McCain/Palin-- a Clear and Present Danger to the Country
McCain's new ad shows a smiling Obama and claims he wants to teach sex education to kindergarteners. The ad badly distorts what Obama's actual bill did.
The innuendo here is pretty clear, and this is about as sleazy as you can get.
John McCain-- what an honorable guy.
Josh Marshall sums it up:
UPDATE: If this is what generates news, we are so so so screwed: "Lipstick comments color presidential campaign". Greenwald does due diligence in dissecting this particular example of right-wing bullshit and how it permeates into the regular news.
Also, Andrew Sullivan has a good piece about what McCain has sunk to.
The innuendo here is pretty clear, and this is about as sleazy as you can get.
John McCain-- what an honorable guy.
Josh Marshall sums it up:
But what is already apparent is that John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest and race-baiting campaign of our lifetimes. So let's stopped being shocked and awed by every new example of it. It is undignified. What can we do? We've got a dangerously reckless contender for the presidency and a vice presidential candidate who distinguished her self by abuse of office even on the comparatively small political stage of Alaska. They've both embraced a level of dishonesty that disqualifies them for high office. Democrats owe it to the country to make clear who these people are. No apologies or excuses. If Democrats can say at the end of this campaign that they made clear exactly how and why these two are unfit for high office they can be satisfied they served their country.This is of course all conventional politics -- but it's still hard to overstate how dangerous McCain/Palin could be for the country. They are easily worse than Bush/Cheney-- more reckless and just as dishonest-- if not more. They could easily bring the country crashing down economically and worse. One might argue that that outcome would be a good thing, as it could shake up "the powers that be" and bring a new type of honest politics that is so badly needed. On the other hand, it could also result in extremely miserable lives for all of us, that end up strengthening the hold of "the powers that be" over us.
UPDATE: If this is what generates news, we are so so so screwed: "Lipstick comments color presidential campaign". Greenwald does due diligence in dissecting this particular example of right-wing bullshit and how it permeates into the regular news.
Also, Andrew Sullivan has a good piece about what McCain has sunk to.
posted by spooked at 9:39 AM
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""Democrats owe it to the country to make clear who these people [mcpalin] are.""
they won't.
“The media should respect Bristol's [Palin] privacy. That’s always been the tradition and practice when it comes to the children of candidates.”
“The children of candidates do not choose to run for office and be thrust into the spotlight.”
...John McCain
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
...John McCain
Obama was stupid to make ANY kind of comment related to pigs.
Biden was stupid to say that Hilliary Clinton may have been a better choice for VP.
Rangel was stupid for not reporting income on his D.Republic villa and for not paying taxes or mortgage interest.
The above anecdotes are proof that
most politicians are not anywhere near as smart and savvy as many people think they are.
You could be forgiven for wondering if Obama benefited from affirmative action. He's supposed to be a brilliant student and the first Editor in Chief of the Harvard Law Review, yet he speaks in an odd, halting, stereotypical black preacher style.
Meanwhile, Biden has been a national politician for more than 30 years and is supposed to be some kind of foreign policy "expert", yet his loose tongue and
indiscreet public disclosure (which could easily be taken as a sign of insecurity - the last quality needed in someone who might be interacting with highly sophisticated world leaders who resent the U.S. and would exploit any opportunity to undermine U.S. foreign policy) - is evidence that
the ticket of Obama/Biden may well
be no better than the one headed by Saint Johnny and Sister Sara.
Perhaps not even any better than some people that we all know as our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and local leaders.
300 million people in the u.s. and the best they can come up with is obama and mccain?
still, i think obama/biden are the lesser of two evils.
The larger point is that there are PLENTY of people who are more capable, in every way, than any of the major candidates for the office of President this year.
Unfortunately, politics, though it is a very complex and difficult profession, attracts way too many people of low character and modest talents.
BTW - Can anyone here recall anything that Bill Clinton ever said that justifies the claim that he is brilliant? Or particularly
persuasive and convincing?
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