Ain’t no stopping us now!

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 (-: