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k2o4 United States. Aug 22 2008 21:04. Posts 4803

Things have been slow politically lately, and by slow I mean I could live with only making 1 blog post a day. I think the combination of McCain's newest gaffe about houses plus the upcoming VP selection and Dem Convention means that I'm about to go to 2-3 posts a day for a week or so. This is my preemptive apology, because I know it's gonna be more than most of you wanna see, haha. I'm going to try and keep em short though.

For now I just wanna link to a fun article I just read... here's a excerpt followed by a link to click if you wanna keep reading.

It's probably time for the Republicans to panic.

Reason the first: despite all of the McCain campaign attacks of the last six weeks and, naturally, Senator McCain's whiteness and military service, the McCain campaign can't, as Pat Buchanan likes to say, "close the deal." He can't overtake Senator Obama in the polls given the roster of assaults on Obama's patriotism and character as well as the continued accusations that Obama, according to the McCain campaign and the barbecue media, is a skinny, exotic, infanticidal, egg-headed evildoer.

Reason the second, and more importantly: Senator McCain appears to be losing his shpadoinkle. When he admitted that he doesn't know how many houses he and his heiress wife own, it might not have been because he owns too many houses to count. Instead, it could be that he simply couldn't remember how many houses he owns.

Brit Hume once called this kind of glitch "a senior moment," but how many senior moments can a guy have before we seriously begin to question whether, for example, in the middle of an international crisis, he's going to forget who the president of Russia is and then bomb Berlin thinking that Putin is the president of Germany. Oh. Wait.

Ask any homeowner how many houses they own and they'll probably answer correctly -- or, if they're crazy rich, they'll at least answer within the margin of error (+/- one house). Ask Senator Obama and he'll probably answer correctly (one). Yet Senator McCain simply couldn't remember. Slipped his mind. Even if he had answered, but answered incorrectly, it still would've been a problem, but nowhere near this level.

"I think -- I'll have my staff get to you. It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you."

He could've totally invented a number like Grandpa Simpson, "I got 'dickety' houses! Why 'dickety'? Because the Kaiser stole the word 'eight'!" But McCain blanked. "It's condominiums," was the extent of the information he could muster. That's sort of like asking your bank for your checking account balance and they reply, "Errrm. It's dollars."

Full story here.

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Last edit: 23/08/2008 02:13

rgfdxm United States. Aug 23 2008 00:33. Posts 1514

That is a terrible article. If any article's design ensured it would accomplish nothing but preaching to the choir, that one is it.

I probably agree with you on a lot of political positions, but I think you're focusing mostly on the superficial and unimportant crap that everyone seems convinced is significant in a presidential campaign.

k2o4 United States. Aug 23 2008 02:03. Posts 4803

On August 22 2008 23:33 rgfdxm wrote:
That is a terrible article. If any article's design ensured it would accomplish nothing but preaching to the choir, that one is it.

I probably agree with you on a lot of political positions, but I think you're focusing mostly on the superficial and unimportant crap that everyone seems convinced is significant in a presidential campaign.

Yeah, this was much more of a fun/funny read than anything else. The grampa simpson line cracked me up.

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