Oh, and McCain is now being laughed off the stage in the local press here in Louisiana. He was supposed to visit an oil rig here, in order to highlight the safety and awesomeness of offshore drilling. The spill here in NOLA crippled him, and they had to cancel.
Walking down in the Lower 9th Ward last night, I saw a shirt last night that might fit St John's mood right now: "FEMA Evacuation Plan: 'Run Motherfucker, Run'". Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Is is just the Obama International Pre-Coronation Promenade ? Or did McCain make one mistake too many ? keep to the Fen Causeway
Add all of the world leaders, even in Israel, rolling out the red carpet, and it rewrote the whole narrative.
Add, too, that we now find McCain spending money like drunken sailor of leave, and it compounds the problem. He's spending three times what Obama is, despite being outraised over two-to-one. And he's got nothing to show for it. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
you can see the grudging admiration for the candidate who's giving them a story to sell, whether they agree or not, they'd look even more out of touch (difficult, i know) if they continued to try downplay it, or let their bias show too flagrantly.
so late to the truth as always, they are flocking to their new icon, whether to try trash him a la bill kristol or bill o'reilly or hannity, or to grudgingly acknowledge his consummate political and rhetorical skills, a la most other reporters who aren't his natural enemies, but as good little strumpets, would just as happily boost mcsame if obama faded away, or if mccain actually did or said anything remotely interesting, unpredictable, or even newsworthy at this point. but he doesn't...
they can't be too obvious, can they? besides, they're only letting him rise, the better to take him down later, the higher they fly, the harder they fall, the thicker the plot, the better the sales.
there's a tad of drew's magic space-bama going on too. i', reminded of the sensation in european salons when the first exotic savages were dressed up like lord fauntleroy, taught language and manners, and paraded around the salons of the nobility like dressed up monkeys....look, it walks and talks just like us!
leetle problemo...he walks (a tightrope) better than most walk a garden path, and he talks like a true orator, the likes of whose talent in this regard leaves every other western, english-speaking leader in the dust.
it's kinda fun, watching him take this cognitive challenge further each day, by not misstepping too badly, in a more politically loaded minefield than anyone can remember in recent history.
splitting differences, focussing on unity and intelligent (whoa nellie) solutions to fostering peace.
watching his reception with world leaders is a thing of media beauty, they're all so blatantly relieved to have such a contrast to the present situation!
it's almost too good to be true... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
maybe some vigorous brush-cutting sessions are in order... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
He was supposed to visit an oil rig here, in order to highlight the safety and awesomeness of offshore drilling. The spill here in NOLA crippled him, and they had to cancel.
This kind of fuck up takes serious talent. To turn up on the Gulf Coast to talk about off shore drilling on the same day as a major oil spill and a hurricane is big-league disasterism.
Apparently when McCain yells at clouds, the clouds yell right back.
But it's Obama who's scaring me. He's obliterating McCain in the same way that he obliterated Clinton. Clinton was not a push-over, but she destroyed herself and her campaign in a very public way. By the time Obama had finished with her, she might as well have gone on Fox and set herself on fire.
McCain isn't exactly a beginner, but the same thing is happening to him in a very similar way.
Between this and Obama's closet condescension for the left, I'm not just feeling less and less hypnotically enthused, but - honestly - more and more creeped out.
That said, the netroots need to be working on electing better candidates to put good bills on Obama's desk, should he be elected. Better Congress, better Obama. Force him to play out way with our new majority. Better outcomes.
I think Obama will be a fine president. I'm just not willing to bet my life on it. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
