If Barack doesn't care, why should anybody else.
Why should middle America vote for Obama? He exudes no sense of urgency, no true populist rhetoric. 52% of Americans think he will raise their taxes, even though he won't. Financial market meltdowns due to Republican laissez-faire deregulation. House prices plummeting. Foreclosures skyrocketing. Unemployment rising rapidly and headed to 7%. Palin talking about war with Russia and McCain defending child molesters.
Average Joe doesn't know or care because Barack has become the messenger of "Real Change blah, blah, blah". McCain is blurring the lines. Obama is allowing him to do so.
Where is the populist passion? Where is the sense of urgency that the country is going to hell in a handbasket? Without a sense of urgency, McCain is the default choice. It is not a question of whether Obama is the better choice. He needs to be the compelling alternative. As of this second he is not.
You can't wait for America to wake up. You have to wake America up.
Going on Saturday Night Live, yeah that'll get that sense of urgency going. Let's have a few laughs and continue to pretend it doesn't matter who wins.
If Barack doesn't care, why should anybody else.
Average Joe doesn't know or care because Barack has become the messenger of "Real Change blah, blah, blah". McCain is blurring the lines. Obama is allowing him to do so.
Where is the populist passion? Where is the sense of urgency that the country is going to hell in a handbasket? Without a sense of urgency, McCain is the default choice. It is not a question of whether Obama is the better choice. He needs to be the compelling alternative. As of this second he is not.
You can't wait for America to wake up. You have to wake America up.
Going on Saturday Night Live, yeah that'll get that sense of urgency going. Let's have a few laughs and continue to pretend it doesn't matter who wins.
If Barack doesn't care, why should anybody else.
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He is no Hillary Clinton.
September 12, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's not our candidate...can you just get over it already?
September 12, 2008 1:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
The problem is, people don't care. Rick Davis was correct when he said this race is not about issues, it's about personalities. As thinking people, we don't want to believe this. It scares us to death to believe that so many people would vote based on the presence of girl parts...that people are prejudiced enough to vote for a white ticket composed of a doddering old fool and an attractive, woefully unqualified woman, over the quality candidates Obama/Biden, because Obama is black (and not like us.)...that issues don't matter...that you can talk out of both sides of your face (actually LIE) and not get called on it by the news media...
But that's the world we live in. Wake up and smell the coffee. Maybe he'll be a hit on Saturday Night Live...crap like that is all people care about, so why not?
September 12, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Today in NH:
"John McCain just last night, he said, and I'm quoting here, 'It's easy for me to go to Washington, and frankly, be somewhat divorced from the everyday challenges people have,'" Obama said.
"Maybe from where he and George Bush sit, maybe things do look fundamentally sound," he said. "Maybe they're that out of touch."
"We can't afford four more years of what George Bush and John McCain consider progress. We can't afford another president who is so out of touch they think the economy is strong right now and promise to do the exact same thing that we've been doing for the last eight years. And that's what John McCain is promising," he said.
Obama then described McCain's plan in retro terms as "trickle-down," and asked the crowd "how much has it trickled down" to them. "You're feeling dehydrated. It hasn't trickled down," he said.
September 12, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink