Day of Reckoning 2: Why John McCain Will (Probably) Lose (Tonight)

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 1:05 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 13:05

Two nights ago, I had addressed the potential for Barack Obama to lose this presidential contest. I had argued that, while the polls and all political indicators, so far, have been pointing to an Obama victory, the number of uncertainties that are part and parcel of this election cycle should not be entirely overlooked. Among the uncertainties that could lead to a surprise McCain victory (racism and mistrust of white Americans towards Obama, Bradley effect, voter complacency and overconfidence, effect of John McCain's negative attacks, last-minute surge towards John McCain by the undecided, erroneous poll predictions, acts of God, etc.), I zoomed at, perhaps, the only single weakness that one could attribute to the Obma campaign: naïveté, and perhaps, an implicit dose of complacency, especially as they relate to the Obama belief that being positive all the way was going to win this election for him.

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 5:40 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 17:40

Obama could still lose this election, and if he does, it will be because of one single fact: naïveté. It seems that, contrary to what many have said this time around, Obama fell prey to the same type of complacency that has compromised Democratic candidates in the past two presidential elections. Both Gore, in 2000, and Kerry, in 2004, lost because of an incredible naïveté that assumed that the American electorate was fundamentally intelligent, and that it could sort out, for itself, the lies from the facts, and therefore carry the Democrats to victory without them needing to go negative and push harder in order to try and ensure victory beyond all doubt. In both cases, they were DEAD WRONG, and THEY LOST.

And here Obama goes again with the same naïve assumptions. My opinion is that Obama is making a huge strategic mistake in assuming that not going negative and simply sitting on his tenuous and volatile lead will be enough to take him to victory. And even if he did end up winning, why make it harder than it should be?

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 10:16 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 10:16

Could Sarah Palin have been hiding a repressed libido? The many faces and transformations of Sarah Palin since joining the McCain presidential ticket are shockingly telling. Those changing faces have fascinated me so much (and perhaps you too?) that I have decided to conduct a small and very brief psychoanalysis of Sarah Palin’s awakening libidinal impulses in the context of her $150,000 clothing spree.

Let me begin with what I called “the incredible arousal of Sarah Palin” in the title of this article. And I want to be as purposefully ambiguous and cowardly as possible, hence my decision to hide my duplicity and duplicitous thoughts behind the many meanings of the word “arousal,” which, indeed, can mean “stimulation,” “awakening,” “excitement”, among many other meanings and insinuations which I prefer not to list here.

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 11:16 PM PDT

2008/10/17 · 23:16

It all began with the “Barack-Obama-is-an-Arab” lady at a McCain town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota last week. Responding to what she naturally thought had become the official, cathartic McCain/Palin electoral mantra, the woman, a certain Gayle Quinnell, stated that she did not trust Barack Obama because Barack Obama, she had read (in some McCain/Palin literature), was an Arab.

To which John McCain, in a telling “reap what you sow” moment, responded:

“No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign is all about.”

What’s troubling in McCain’s answer are a number of dangerous innuendoes which are not immediately apparent to most people, but which are striking to those with enough intellectual sense (Am I being elitist here? Well, hell).

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 9:22 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 09:22

An October 14 article by Sam Stein on the Huffington Post this week got me thinking. As I read it more and more, one interesting idea came to me: “What if John McCain actually wanted to lose?”

The gist of Sam Stein’s article is summarized in the first four paragraphs of the article as so:

Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush’s reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would “have to live” with that fact for the rest of his career.

“They didn’t let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP,” Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. “When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race… as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible.”

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