Veeps Speak After Second Presidential Debate
Okay, so it's the day after the second presidential debate, which McCain lost by double-digits, say the snap polls. Today is the day after John McCain introduced a "new idea" (about buying out mortgages and readjusting the principal) which the pundits are pointing out is already in the bailout bill and not new at all.
Biden gave a speech this morning in Florida, the day after his mother-in-law's funeral. (Her terminal illness and his son Beau's deployment to Iraq kept him off the trail the past dozen days.) Biden's return to the stump was so good in the ten minutes I saw, I'll spend part of the afternoon trying to chase down the rest of it. So far, all I've found is this citation for Biden's assertion that the McCain campaign's ad buys are now officially 100% negative, and these few quotes:
Palin is a leaking sack of acid. She sounds like an angry high school girl, and between sophomoric insults at Obama, she's speaking in campaign clichés. One after another. Maverick. POW. God Bless You. God Bless Him. (No, no one is sneezing). Reagan. Culture of life. Best workers in the world. Beacon of hope for those seeking freedom and equal rights (unless they are pregnant women). Shining City on a Hill. Reagan again. The crowd chanted "SA-RAH SA-RAH" for her, and now she's inspired a round of "JOHN MICK CAIN JOHN MICK CAIN" but despite the frantic fervor, I doubt we'll hear her admitting to being a "cultish celebrity," which is what they say when people chant "O BAM A! O BAM A!"
McCain is speaking, white Sarah on his right, white Meghan on his left, white Cindy next to white Meghan, in the center of an all-white crowd. Black Bridget is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps she was busy today.
Oh, here we go again, McCain's reusing "I don't need lessons in telling the truth from a CHICAGO POLITICIAN." Easy to say when you're trying to distract an angry nation from the fact you yourself have been a Washington politician for twenty-six years. Easy to say when you've lost Illinois already, and of course, this statement itself is a lie. Obama was not part of the Democratic Machine in Chicago, a machine which has been in disarray for what, twenty years now? near thirty? As a Chicago politician, albeit minor and long ago, I take offense.
But after sneaking out of Michigan like a thief last week, irritating their electorate and, even more so, their elected Republican officials who were hoping for some coattail action, what is the McCain campaign thinking? Do they imagine dumping on Michigan and casting slurs on Illinois is going to help them in the rest of the Midwest, such as Wisconsin and Indiana? Or have they surrendered both of those states too, but, like McCain's Pakistan policy, just decided "you don't talk about that" ?
Even with his mike cut out so the anchors can babble as I watch today's recaps of last night's debate, McCain looks like Old Man Shakes Fist At Sky.
Biden gave a speech this morning in Florida, the day after his mother-in-law's funeral. (Her terminal illness and his son Beau's deployment to Iraq kept him off the trail the past dozen days.) Biden's return to the stump was so good in the ten minutes I saw, I'll spend part of the afternoon trying to chase down the rest of it. So far, all I've found is this citation for Biden's assertion that the McCain campaign's ad buys are now officially 100% negative, and these few quotes:
- The McCain-Palin ticket is trying "to take the low road to the highest office in the land."
- McCain is "an angry man lurching from one position to another."
- Commenting further on the ad buys, "I guess when you go with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, your best hope is to attack your opponent 100 percent of the time."
- Quoting Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) re McCain's false reputation for independence from the Bush Administration: "You can't call yourself a maverick when all you've ever been is a sidekick."
Palin is a leaking sack of acid. She sounds like an angry high school girl, and between sophomoric insults at Obama, she's speaking in campaign clichés. One after another. Maverick. POW. God Bless You. God Bless Him. (No, no one is sneezing). Reagan. Culture of life. Best workers in the world. Beacon of hope for those seeking freedom and equal rights (unless they are pregnant women). Shining City on a Hill. Reagan again. The crowd chanted "SA-RAH SA-RAH" for her, and now she's inspired a round of "JOHN MICK CAIN JOHN MICK CAIN" but despite the frantic fervor, I doubt we'll hear her admitting to being a "cultish celebrity," which is what they say when people chant "O BAM A! O BAM A!"
McCain is speaking, white Sarah on his right, white Meghan on his left, white Cindy next to white Meghan, in the center of an all-white crowd. Black Bridget is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps she was busy today.
Oh, here we go again, McCain's reusing "I don't need lessons in telling the truth from a CHICAGO POLITICIAN." Easy to say when you're trying to distract an angry nation from the fact you yourself have been a Washington politician for twenty-six years. Easy to say when you've lost Illinois already, and of course, this statement itself is a lie. Obama was not part of the Democratic Machine in Chicago, a machine which has been in disarray for what, twenty years now? near thirty? As a Chicago politician, albeit minor and long ago, I take offense.
But after sneaking out of Michigan like a thief last week, irritating their electorate and, even more so, their elected Republican officials who were hoping for some coattail action, what is the McCain campaign thinking? Do they imagine dumping on Michigan and casting slurs on Illinois is going to help them in the rest of the Midwest, such as Wisconsin and Indiana? Or have they surrendered both of those states too, but, like McCain's Pakistan policy, just decided "you don't talk about that" ?
Even with his mike cut out so the anchors can babble as I watch today's recaps of last night's debate, McCain looks like Old Man Shakes Fist At Sky.