A party united got us into this mess.
After trying to associate Obama with the word "terrorist," John McCain found out that "socialist" might be lower on the "scare word" scale. Funny, that.
Now he's switched to the message that assumes Democrats are winning big in congress, and McCain is offering himself not as a kind of obstacle. At the heart of it, this is a strange argument for a country that needs a leader to help pull it out of a mess.
The Republican party, united, got us into this mess, and it's going to take, at the very least, a party united to get us out of it. The last thing we need is an obstructionist, or an unsteady leader who will flail from proposal to proposal while "sharing the same core Republican ideals as Bush" (to paraphrase what McCain himself said on Meet the Press over the weekend). The only place a leader like that will take you is over a cliff.
It's going to take a country united to choose a better way.
In more lighthearted news, McCain is getting slammed on late night television.
When you're erratic and angry, you do become a particular target of humorists.
Posted by James at October 28, 2008 7:35 AM"Critics are wondering, what happened to the old John McCain?" Colbert said. "Wait a minute. There's an older John McCain?"
Late night television has been hitting him hard, yes, but he's been doing a mighty fine job of that himself (witness the clip from the 22nd, which James posted, wherein McCain, in a most tortured speech, agreed with Murtha that there are racist pockets in W. PA, and then pulled patriotism out of his bag of words, in a clumsy attempt to end the insanity of his speech).
Biden's foot-in-mouth disease hardly comes close to some of the wacky s*** that has eminated from the McCain/Palin ticket. I give the example of her statement that the VP controls Congress! Hoooooooo, boy, she's a sharp one, that Sarah Palin.
Oy.
7 days 15 hours 24 minutes and 50 seconds until this whole thing is over.
Posted by: Patti M. at October 28, 2008 9:28 AM