Ain’t no stopping us now!

The NY Times this weekend will be running a story with quotes from McCain aids and staffers (who prefer to remain unnamed…I wonder why) start talking trash about why their campaign has pretty much imploded since the Conventions.

Rachel Maddow explains more:

and the Bush administration rats are bailing too… so says KO:

Not to beat a dying horse but when Liz Dole is treating you like a lost cause, and even Sarah Palin is trying to ditch you, well…

Obama/Biden 08

The Simpsons strike again!

Is Homer Simpson Sarah Palin’s Joe six-pack or just some Hollywood liberal elite’s gross caricature of him?

Both parties are trying to bridge the gap between their current positions and the position that will ultimately bring them victory. Between both parties and the consummate power over the quality of our lives and stewardship of the direction our country will take as of January 2009, is a channel. A channel infested with history and records (or the lack thereof), dubious ties and relations, gaffes, sexism, racism, fascism, liberalism, neo-conservatism, the MSM, the Religious Right, Reverend Wright, Keating 1,2,3,4 and 5, Osama Bin Laden, Al Quaeda, earmarks, lobbyists, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, y’all get the message…it’s a putrid cesspool. As I observe the construction of the McCain Bridge I feel like I’m visiting a hot dog factory. I’ve eaten hot dogs all my life but I haven’t trusted hot dogs completely since once when I was a kid and bit into one and found myself chewing on something that I felt should not have been in a hotdog. It was definitely not something Oscar Meyer would have shown in their commercials. And now, upon visiting the factory for the first time, my distrust has been fully validated. The Obama Bridge feels like being backstage at a Stevie Wonder Jr. concert. He has all the talent and genius of the father but not only was he born with a sense of entitlement, and not only isn’t he blind, he has little of the edge that I loved about the 70’s version of Stevie. The “Innervisions,” “Fulfillingness First Finale,” and “Songs in the Key of life,” Stevie. Junior jumps between the Motown “I was made to love her,” “Signed, sealed, delivered,” Stevie, and the post-pissed off / fired up “I just called to say I love you” Stevie.

The Republicans, (with Rove as Chief Engineer) by all appearances, began this project with the same material they used for their previous presidential bridge projects: fear, disguised as National Security. Fear is steel. Fear built Bush’s 2^nd bridge (corruption built the first one) and the bridges of a lot of Republican politicians. Especially this particular steel: It’s Ground Zero Steel. It’s a virtually unyielding, robust metal, melded in the cauldron of ground zero, 7 years ago. It is to regular steel what zero point energy is to atomic energy. And, until the recent economic 9/11, the bridge was well on it’s way to completion.

The Democrats began the construction of their bridge with a material called change. Change is by no means a new material. It has built many a bridge to Washington, most notable JFK’s. Though, it hasn’t built as many bridges as fear, it is not to be underestimated. In the hands of the right engineer, change is a formidable brand of steel. In the hands of Obama, Axelrod and Plouffe it has proven to be the right stuff because they had the foresight to reinforce their steel of change with, well, grassroots. Sounds kind of like some witchdoctor’s concoction but grassroots is basically metal literally found in the streets and farms all over this country, and if you know how to locate and procure it, well, it can fortify any steel into damn near adamantium (like Wolverine’s skeleton).

Recently, both parties have essentially had to scrap their original blueprints. Fear Steel has has been showing signs of having a seven year shelf life and Change steel (mixed with grassroots) seems to have the same vulnerability that 9/11 steel reportedly had: an inability to withstand sustained heat at a certain temperature. In this case, the heat emanates from the kitchen sink.

Yes, both campains have had to step back to the lab.

The Republicans unveiled their new blueprint first. Actually, it wasn’t new. They’d gone to democrat’s lab, not unlike they did back in the 70’s, the original “gate”, Watergate, and unleashed some Change Steel of their own, only they couldn’t get their hands on the secret ingredient, the two sccops of raisins, ie, the grassroots, so they impetuously came up with a secret ingredient of their own: Alaskan Un-blinking Steel. It was risky to say the least. Mixed properly, the steel has the potential to complete this and many bridges to follow in the future. Mixed improperly and, well, everybody knows that old kids game “London Bridge is falling down… my fair lady.” (My favorite part was always “Take the key and lock him up!”)

The Democrats, gazing upon this diabolically, cynically, and desperately audacious new style from the Republican engineers, were dumbfounded. “What the hell are they engineering? Their own defeat?” The Democratic Engineers asked themselves. For this new blueprint smelled like Napalm in the morning, you know, victory…for about an hour. Then, it began to reek as the true genius of this new change additive began to mix just as those geniuses has anticipated. The Democratic Bridge to the White House was starting to look like a bridge to Nowhere.

The Democratic bridge construction workers started wringing their hands in panic. But, the engineer told them all to remain calm. He had a notion about this violitility of this new Alaskan Un-blinking shit. He suspected that it was unstable. Be patient, he instructed them.

And, just as he anticipated, the Alaskan Un-blinking steel began to crack. And at the same time an economic crisis arose, the perfect storm. So they decided to stick with Change steel and grassroots.

Let’s see who gets somewhere and who gets stuck in the cesspool.

Obama ‘08

I like the way the news is looking recently. Our economic woes don’t necessarily favor Barack, but the gaffes of the McCain campaign definitely do.

And the fact that McCain has to basically disown his party’s rhetoric for over 3 decades and his own personal rhetoric for nearly as long, most definitely helps as well.

I wonder, if McCain somehow pulls this off- convinces the American public that it’s not an economic crisis but simply a “crisis” and that, despite the fact that he has been a staunch supporter and advocate of the policies that got us here, that because of his age, experience, POW status, and temperament,he’s the steward America needs in this and all crises, my question is: Will he regulate or say to hell with regulations, let’s not live in the past?

I wonder if his base even cares.

Actually, Barack has gotten in perhaps his best zinger of the campaign:

He can stump on that for a couple of weeks. I think it has a better shelf life than “Thanks, but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere” or “I put it on Ebay” and it has the rare quality (recently) of truthiness (-:

So, even if McCain has truly decided to become a regulator, which I serious doubt, I hope the public is not as dumb as Bill Maher almost has me convinced we are:

What do you think?

Should we blink?

Charlie Cook of the National Journal wrote: Next came the Democratic convention, which was the political equivalent of a Chinese dinner. It looked, smelled and tasted great; it was a perfectly enjoyable experience — and diners were hungry just a few hours later. As well organized and impressive as the Denver convention was, it’s pretty clear that viewers knew little more about Obama on the Friday after the convention than they did on the Monday morning before it began. The ball was not advanced.

Well, Mr. Cook, and those who agree with the above quote, if you don’t know BO by now, you will never know him, and you probably don’t want to know him or have the often touted “beer” with him. And I began my day today with this piece of “journalism”

Mind you, I am in Japan so I usually get news a little later than you guys in the states.

Then i checked out the following piece: palin-s-favorability-ratings-begin-to-falter.aspx

and like Robin Williams said in “Good Morning, Vietnam” it was like an expresso enema. (-:

I  also found a couple of other great breaths of fresh air. One by Deepak Chopra writing about the psychology of this election and giving a very thoughtful answer to the much asked question from above as well as “Why isn’t Barack doing better in the polls?” question and the often asked “Why doesn’t Barack get tougher, show anger, get “blacker” and so forth and so on.

here’s the link:deepak-chopra-talks-politics

And the other breath of fresh air comes from David Brooks, who has given me a better understanding of what a true conservative sounds like:  16brooks.html?ex=1379304000&en=6122ac6b7f0129a0&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

And then there was this video…terrible song but I almost like it now(:

Let me know how you feel after you read and watch these, why don’t you? They really made my day (-:

expatforobama

Of course he knew that people would draw comparisons between the use of lipstick on a pit bull and lipstick on a pig. So I gotta think he meant to get this attention so he could call out the McCain campaign on their cynicism. How wise this is? I can’t say. I know the Karl Rove Machine is good at this stuff…in fact, great at this stuff! So, he either has decided to take them on and out flank them somehow, or he has found a blind spot in their tactics, or he has an ace up his sleeve that he expects will trump the Joker I’m sure they have up theirs, or he’s been manipulated into playing their game and doesn’t realize it (the true genius of Rove) or…fuck I don’t know. I’ve never been good at Chess. I’m more of a Space Invaders kind of guy.

I’m afraid to think that he has placed his faith in the good sense of the American People because well…y’all know why. If he has, God help him. Or, rather, people help him, cuz if Sarah’s right, God is busy guiding our troops to this as yet to be defined victory in Iraq.

I just had a thought: Maybe this is a ploy on his part to actually get the media (aside from Keith and Rachel) to stand up to Republican terrorism tactics and actually say something negative about the type of campaign  Republicans are running. Maybe he’s trying to coerce and /or inspire the media to say “Enough!!” too. I mean after what I saw in that Oreilly interview (Oreilly actually appeared to be impressed and, dare I say, charmed and/or engaging), hell has not only ice cubes but ski resorts and slushies for all.

peace and love (-:

Well, this is not my first go at keeping a blog, but I’m gonna do it this time!

I just responded to an entry that referred to Senator McCain as a pedophile for his ad distorting Senator Obama’s advocacy of teaching kids how to know the difference between good tuch and bad touch. If you haven’t seen the ad yet here it is:

I wrote in response to this entry the following:

I think Obama is going to have to respond a little more forcefully on
this one. A little outrage is warranted here. I know he’s a cool
customer and he’s probably saving the haymakers for the debates but
that statement his “spokesperson” released, albeit strong, was a little
on the “I won’t let you drag me down to your level” tip and in this
Cultural War that he simply can’t pretend is not WELL underway, that
won’t cut it. The Republicans are desperate and coming at him with the
kitchen sink in anticipation of being floored during the debates. He
can’t come out of the debates having just pulled it back up to even.
he’s gotta (at least I think, and I’m no Axelrod by any stretch of the
imagination) have a substantial lead come October to pull this thing
off.
I just wanted to give you a full throated response. I think calling
McCain a pedophile (if Obama did it I mean) would be just about an
appropriate response to that sordid ad but it would kill him in the
culture war. Karl Rove and companyare just too good at what they do and
are clearly trying to bait him into the kind of politics they thrive
in! He’s shown the patience of (Job? Not too up on my bible references)
or Ghandi (comparatively and now is not the time to lose it. He’s going
to have to continue to be what he said today the Bush Administration
should be: Tough but smart!

Comments are welcomed! (I think)