John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic.
Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama by Christopher Buckley - The Daily Beast
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but this is probably the closest we’ve been to the old (pre-2000) McCain during this campaign season.
Well done, sir. You’re deep into tragic Shakespearean territory now, but you don’t need to go out that way.
I’ve been supporting Obama’s campaign indirectly for a while now. I even got the taint of party affiliation on me, so I could vote for him in the primary. The guy’s not infallible though. Let’s talk about why we’ll have to keep an eye on him after we vote for him.
1. He’s not as anti-lobbyist as he’d like you to think.
See Obama’s K Street project and the excellent, source-citing Obama won’t accept money from lobbyists… or will he?.
2. He supports, but then declines public financing for his campaign.
See Obama opts out of public funding.
3. He supports a bill that legalizes the Bush-ordered illegal warrantless wiretapping.
See Obama’s support for the FISA “compromise” and MoveOn.org’s call for him to honor his support of a filibuster.
None of these are deal breakers. I’ll still vote for the guy. I’m still loyal to the lesser-of-two-evils philosophy, so I don’t have a choice.
Now, if we really want to dig into this issue, our Democratic congress is going to look really bad. If you have a little over 6 minutes, I’ll let Keith Olbermann and Jonathan Turley explain:
Yeah… That’ll be the day.
Are you stupid?
A current look at Primary and Caucus results shows Hillary beating Obama 306 to 235. If I’ve done the math right, that’s 306 jerks who think we should just let the Bush and Clinton families take turns in the Whitehouse. Well, that’s too bad, because it’s not going to happen.
It’s pretty simple really. McCain has cross-party appeal. Nominally Democratic Joe Sixpack would have loved to have voted for McCain 8 years ago and he’s been chomping at the bit to get a chance to do so ever since.
Hillary… oh, Hillary. Most Republicans hate her with a passion. They don’t have a really good reason to hate her, but that doesn’t make their hate less real, just irrational. You can’t argue with that kind of thing. Oh yeah, a lot of Democrats hate her too. They don’t have a reason and don’t need one… although there are plenty.
You still have time. There are enough delegates out there to turn this thing around. Obama gives the best speeches this side of JFK and he’s electable, so please do the right thing.
Plus, I swear, if Hillary gets the nomination and loses the election, I’m done with you jerks for good. There’s no reason for the Democratic party to even pretend to play in presidential politics if all it does is roll over and hope for a pat on the belly from the GOP.
One more thing.
Will.I.Am wrote a song based on one of Obama’s speeches. Does Hillary get songs made out of her speeches? No. No she doesn’t.
Bad Idea, originally uploaded by williac.
I wish I’d had time to slap a “Bad Idea” sticker on this. I may consider voting for Obama, but Clinton really needs to sit this one out. I love the idea of voting for a female president, but Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton is a nasty pattern and we’d have to let Jeb have it after that and then Chelsea and then Jenna and then we’ll just have to admit that we’re done with the whole election thing and that’s a delusion I’m not quite ready to let go of.
