Waiting in line yesterday for the first boat to the Cape I looked back and about half way back in the line was Senator Kerry , having paid his 37 bucks like the rest of us. Not on a private jet or even a Cessna..
I wondered idly whether I should say in passing that I respected his service to the country :in Vietnam , as a Vietnam protestor, and as a Presidential candidate who should have , but didn't , win.. Instead I decided to respect his privacy-as did the rest of the passengers-altho in my case that was somewhat irrelevant since he sat down six feet awat from me. The only intrusion on his privacy was one he welcomed when the couple next to him asked whether they could photograph him with their kids to which he said "of course" and 4 lively pre teens squeezed in on the banquette for that purpose.
I'd been discouraged ,but unsurprised , by the morning news report that Obama had dropped 22 points in the most recent poll of Massachusetts voters and now trails McCain among white male voters.
What else is new.
I've long learned that Joe Lunchpail is not liberal and merely waits for the commentariat to provide some rationale he can use to justify his scorn for any one who is: flip flopper, he calls me bitter, too much like Paris Hilton, you name it.
And is reinforced in this by the MSM.,as in the Kerry wind-surfing incident uniformly and incorrectly reported as evidence of his participation in an elitist recreation altho the other ten guys on the harbor that day were plumbers, masons , painters etc. who'd blocked the dirt road with their pick ups,the actual elites having brunch in their McMansions with the back entrance door mat featuring a photo of Hillary above the words "A vast right wing conspiracy" on which the delivery men were required to wipe their feet before entering.
And not only the MSM.. In 2000 Nicholas Lehmann wrote a fulsome profile of W for the New Yorker which,AGAIN, two issues ago proved its independence with a meretricious Ryan Lizza profile of Obama which ,interalia, described him challenging fraudulent signatures on an opponent's petition (should he not challenge fraudulent signatures?) described such vetting as having been learned from the Daley machine(do only machine politicians challenge fraudulent signatures?), and then in a breath taking example of illogic subsequently referred in passing to the fact that he Obama won his first campaign by " employing machine tactics". So add David Remnick's name to those for whom it's 'any stick to beat a dog.'
Provided the dog is liberal.
Sadly , we are once again convincing ourselves that Obama will be elected on the strength of his sensible policies and decent campaign tactics. Fuggedaboutitt. The exact opposite is the case. That's what will defeat him Combined of course with the powerful covert racism of low income whites. And not only low income whites. Michelle Obama's freshman room mate at Princeton described her mother as having been appaled to find her daughter forced to room with a black.
Meanwhile we'll maunder on here about Obama not deserving our vote because of FISA. Or Hillary not being acceptable to us were she his VP candidate. Whatever he has done in the past , and whatever he does during the campaign the only sensible position for us to take is to support the guy on the off chance he might overcome the prohibitive odds against this country choosing any liberal.
