So, McCain corrected some supporters about their fear should Obama become president and that he is not, in fact, an Arab....(?), and in turn received kudos across the board for stepping up and....correcting people. Even a nod from Obama thanking him for stepping up.
I feel like I am looking through one of those crazy fisheye lenses with the Twilight Zone swirling overriding my vision. Honestly. That's what I feel like.
Since when do we say wow, amazing, awesome, when someone says - uh, sorry, this is the fact. I mean, talk about your "no grades just stars for everyone!" mentality. Sorry. No. If someone stood up and said to Obama that McCain was an alien, from Mercury, would we have the same reaction? To his credit, Obama told the guy, no, that's not correct, he's a decent guy, a citizen, wow doesn't that make him a great guy!! No. It doesn't. It just makes him a guy that corrects people when they are categorically wrong.
Period.
But then you turn around, and Wasilla Barbie is again going on about the false friendship between Obama and Ayers and again, repeating the lie that supported the killing of babies slated for abortion. And then you see the judgment ads where Obama is again tied to Ayers. How can you accept praise for correcting falsehoods and then turn around and project those falsehoods to your supporters and on televsion? How does that work?
When Obama has taken the high road and refused to capitalize on the Palin abuse of power in troopergate, you still get up there a spit vicerol falsehoods. I don't get it. I really don't. What is this crazy world that Palin lives in, where she can say ad nauseum that she didn't support the bridge to nowhere, that she is fiscally conservative, that she fought big oil, that she did nothing wrong with the trooper issue and was EXHONERATED (!?) by the commission, that she ran Wasilla, that she got a pipeline up and running, all these claims and others that have been repeatedly disproven that she will not let go of. It irritates me that pit bulls have been, again, victimized and had their name sullied by some woman that is as self-involved as any I have seen. Pit bulls are loyal, selfless, wonderful animals that will do anything for their owners. That is how their nature makes them the perfect breed for abusers. Loyalty and selflessness. I don't see that in Palin.
I understand why Obama is going the way he is going - staying on task, addressing the issues - shit -someone has to!, not stepping into the muck, stepping around it and proceeding on. He is winning moderates and independents left and right with this strategy. It stuns me that McCain hasn't picked up on this and tacked that way.
I believe Obama will win in November. I think that we will have to continue to canvas, continue to talk to our neighbors and make our calls. We cannot let up and assume anything, that's when things go awry. We must stay as focused as our candidate and run through the tape at the end...no jogging or walking!
I feel like I am looking through one of those crazy fisheye lenses with the Twilight Zone swirling overriding my vision. Honestly. That's what I feel like.
Since when do we say wow, amazing, awesome, when someone says - uh, sorry, this is the fact. I mean, talk about your "no grades just stars for everyone!" mentality. Sorry. No. If someone stood up and said to Obama that McCain was an alien, from Mercury, would we have the same reaction? To his credit, Obama told the guy, no, that's not correct, he's a decent guy, a citizen, wow doesn't that make him a great guy!! No. It doesn't. It just makes him a guy that corrects people when they are categorically wrong.
Period.
But then you turn around, and Wasilla Barbie is again going on about the false friendship between Obama and Ayers and again, repeating the lie that supported the killing of babies slated for abortion. And then you see the judgment ads where Obama is again tied to Ayers. How can you accept praise for correcting falsehoods and then turn around and project those falsehoods to your supporters and on televsion? How does that work?
When Obama has taken the high road and refused to capitalize on the Palin abuse of power in troopergate, you still get up there a spit vicerol falsehoods. I don't get it. I really don't. What is this crazy world that Palin lives in, where she can say ad nauseum that she didn't support the bridge to nowhere, that she is fiscally conservative, that she fought big oil, that she did nothing wrong with the trooper issue and was EXHONERATED (!?) by the commission, that she ran Wasilla, that she got a pipeline up and running, all these claims and others that have been repeatedly disproven that she will not let go of. It irritates me that pit bulls have been, again, victimized and had their name sullied by some woman that is as self-involved as any I have seen. Pit bulls are loyal, selfless, wonderful animals that will do anything for their owners. That is how their nature makes them the perfect breed for abusers. Loyalty and selflessness. I don't see that in Palin.
I understand why Obama is going the way he is going - staying on task, addressing the issues - shit -someone has to!, not stepping into the muck, stepping around it and proceeding on. He is winning moderates and independents left and right with this strategy. It stuns me that McCain hasn't picked up on this and tacked that way.
I believe Obama will win in November. I think that we will have to continue to canvas, continue to talk to our neighbors and make our calls. We cannot let up and assume anything, that's when things go awry. We must stay as focused as our candidate and run through the tape at the end...no jogging or walking!
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