Two Weeks of Palin. . .Keep Pressing or Whipping a Dead Horse?
It was two weeks yesterday that Senator McCain announced his selection of Govern Palin of Alaska, an arch radical right-wing conservative with minimal experience. In those two weeks we have focused on nothing except Governor Palin and her children, her ex-brother-in-law, her position on the Bridge to Nowhere, and we are really making her look silly (at least in our little bubble). That is two weeks in an election that is approximately fifty days away. That's two weeks since the starting date of the official campaign. That's two weeks of Palin and nothing but Palin.
Well, how are we doing? Should we keep it up? Should we turn this election into a referendum on Governor Palin? Is that the key to an Obama victory? I think Josh Marshall and his fellow members of the creative class are having a field day, to the point where, from my vantage point, they have become a bit unhinged. It's a weird spectacle.
If it works, nice job and shut my mouth. If it doesn't we will know why. I wonder how many of us who are voting for Senator Obama--either because we supported him from the start or, like yours truly, turned to him once HRC conceded--anticipated that the two weeks after Labor Day would center on the trashing of an easily trashable poor substantive choice of a vice presidential choice.
Is it concern trolling to question the strategy and to ask why Obama isn't talking about how he's going to preserve the American Dream into the 21st strategy? Is it concern trolling to point out that, right now, two weeks after Labor Day, with the help of the fabulous creative class of bloggers and the MSNBC FOX wannabes, the Obama campaign appears to be rudderless and without heart and without soul. Frankly, this Democrat doesn't care what you call it; I'd rather respond (or not) to a charge of concern trolling in September than be left with writing I told you so in November.
My Saturday morning opinion: this is getting stupid, really stupid, and this is why we Democrats generally lose elections. How's 'bout I'm Senator Obama and in the first 90 days of my Administration, we are going to change the course of the last eight years by. . . tackling a health care system that isn't working, and by eliminating our dependence on foreign oil producers. Here's how we're gonna do it. . .
Let's get real for once. Have a nice weekend.
Well, how are we doing? Should we keep it up? Should we turn this election into a referendum on Governor Palin? Is that the key to an Obama victory? I think Josh Marshall and his fellow members of the creative class are having a field day, to the point where, from my vantage point, they have become a bit unhinged. It's a weird spectacle.
If it works, nice job and shut my mouth. If it doesn't we will know why. I wonder how many of us who are voting for Senator Obama--either because we supported him from the start or, like yours truly, turned to him once HRC conceded--anticipated that the two weeks after Labor Day would center on the trashing of an easily trashable poor substantive choice of a vice presidential choice.
Is it concern trolling to question the strategy and to ask why Obama isn't talking about how he's going to preserve the American Dream into the 21st strategy? Is it concern trolling to point out that, right now, two weeks after Labor Day, with the help of the fabulous creative class of bloggers and the MSNBC FOX wannabes, the Obama campaign appears to be rudderless and without heart and without soul. Frankly, this Democrat doesn't care what you call it; I'd rather respond (or not) to a charge of concern trolling in September than be left with writing I told you so in November.
My Saturday morning opinion: this is getting stupid, really stupid, and this is why we Democrats generally lose elections. How's 'bout I'm Senator Obama and in the first 90 days of my Administration, we are going to change the course of the last eight years by. . . tackling a health care system that isn't working, and by eliminating our dependence on foreign oil producers. Here's how we're gonna do it. . .
Let's get real for once. Have a nice weekend.
