I'm getting fatigued by being two-steps behind the McCain campaign. Each day since the convention he has added a new twist to the campaign and it makes me wonder what the f(*& Obama is doing. We have an economy down the tubes, a lead in fundraising, an enormous lead in registered voters, an unpopular war, terribly unpopular GOP president, and yet we can't get traction. This should be a perfect storm, but we are only harnessing the energy of a tea-pot tempest.
Now, someone is going to say the media is playing fast-and-loose with the polls. Fine, but here's the problem. Why is any of this surprising anyone?
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If anything can be learned from the Kerry/Bush race, it's that the winner of the argument doesn't matter. It's who drives the discussion, and taps the right chords. Obama's argument resonate with the truth, and McCain's are resonating with people. And it may be for no more reason than that their ticket, by comparison, has more youthful energy?
"WTF" you say? Before thinking about your news-clip images of McCain, think about the images portrayed of Obama. He's stilted, stiff, pensive looking and serious. That's fine in the oval office. By comparison, however, with McCain, he looks tired and bored. In front of Pennsylvania glassworkers (talking about the need for more Ph.D.'s - add that to the WTF list), he looks more like he's dictating a letter to a tape-recorder than talking to excitable working class people.
And it shouldn't be this way. It's said that Hillary Clinton had the campaign workers with the tired ideas. Where are the big ideas. Obama's anemic, though thoughtful, attacks against McCain look like he's showing up for a gun fight with a banana. McCain is spreading jingoistic palaver with energy. Palin is lying her ass off with an attractive and spunky grin that says, "Bring your best, I'll make up even better shit tomorrow!" Then, surprise surprise, the media fails to confront the lies, pumps out skewed polls, and treats fact like opinion.
What about this surprised anyone? Who here thought the GOP campaign folks were idiots? Remember when a fuck-tard beat an actual Viet Nam war hero and the vice-president of the United States? Remember how he spun his AWOL record as military experience? Remember how Kerry was made to look like a traitor compared with a coke addict with dementia? Republicans got DeMint and Coburn elected. Hello? WTF?!
Obama needs to be making some serious claims, making some fantastic ads, and running circles of dollar signs around this geriatric loon.
WTF?!
I'm fatigued.