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[cassandraleo]

I may have been wrong about the al-Qaeda story being this election's October Surprise. The Beltway types mostly seem to be ignoring it, despite the McCain camp's tremendously feeble response to it. There's acutally another story which is drawing even more outrage, from Republicans, because it cuts through Sarah Palin's Everywoman persona and

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[aexoden]

This looks like more pointless political trivia designed to distract voters from the fact that at the end of the day, Obama and McCain are only marginally different.

[raistlinknight]

YES.

Oh my god, my political science capstone class must have argued about this for a good 20 minutes today on whether the 150k figure was outrageous or not (3 guys saying "yes" versus about 6-8 girls saying "no"). My friend and I were apparently the only ones who didn't give a crap.

[cassandraleo]

So neither of you thinks it's significant that they have potentially broken the campaign finance law McCain himself co-sponsored? To me, that seems like a ringing indictment of the way McCain would govern, especially since it shows what he does with political donors' money, which was supposed to be spent on matters directly relating to the campaign.

Not to mention, they aren't marginally different. On economics, foreign policy, and a host of other issues their stances are substantially different. Granted, not as different as I'd like them to be, but pretending there isn't a difference is insulting to all the people whose lives actually would be positively affected if one candidate or the other won.

[raistlinknight]

There's a difference between what their professed ideals are and what actual policy changes would be made. You and many Obama supporters seem to think that those two mean the same thing, whereas a quick glance at history should disillusion you of that notion. The differences end up being mostly superficial.

Also, yeah, I don't think the clothes thing is very significant. It'd be tough for me to think any less of McCain, so spending some thousands of dollars of his tens of millions in campaign money on clothes for his VP doesn't cut it.

[aexoden]

I already know they're both politicians in search of power, so the fact that McCain would violate a law when it suited his purposes is not surprising in the least. I fully expect Obama would do the same thing. Such minutiae are not important enough for me to even spend the time researching