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The warmongers have lost yet another war | 82 comments (82 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Is that 100% true? McCain is a weak old man who looks like he should be on life support in a nursing home. Obama is young, virile, and has cast himself as Jack Bauer more than once. And he isn't selling himself as a dove.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue Aug 12th, 2008 at 01:05:36 AM EST
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It isn't a question of how OBAMA is portraying himself, less even what he in fact is, but rather a question of how he will be portrayed by his opponents and how he will, in the end, be perceived.  Remember Kerry?  

In wanting to be above it all, inhabiting a new politics in a new arena, he is already being portrayed with his head in the clouds, disconnected from earthly realities, as in the Jib Jab Cartoon.

Nor does it really matter how self-contradictory and self-defeating are the policies recommended by McCain.  If NATIONAL SECURITY becomes the main issue, a whole lot of people will decide their vote on primal and emotional levels and go with the Old Warrior image rather than the Cool Reformer Intellectual image.  That is probably the only thing that could give McCain the election.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Aug 12th, 2008 at 05:05:37 PM EST
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The warmongers have lost yet another war | 82 comments (82 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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