Reality Strikes
A funny thing happened while lots of people were wringing their hands over how the McCain campaign seemed in total control of the news cycles since naming Sarah Palin to the ticket.
The real world intervened. One prestigious Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers, collapsed and another one, Merrill Lynch, was bought out for a song by Bank of America and the world’s largest insurance company, AIG, is struggling to raise enough money to survive.
The stock market dropped by more than 500 points and suddenly nobody’s talking about pigs and lipstick.
It didn’t take Obama long to jump all over that poor excuse of a change message and accuse McCain of failing to recognize the significance of the crisis.
McCain’s attempts to rephrase his message sounded awkward and insincere. He insisted that what he meant in his earlier remarks was that he had confidence in how American workers and small businesses were fundamentally sound.
Sure, John, and your history of supporting deregulation makes you just the right guy to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. Believe that and I’ve got a bridge to sell you in Alaska.
John McCain’s inability to speak clearly about the economy provided an opening for Barack Obama and his campaign was ready. Within hours reporters were being emailed copies of a speech Obama gave in March on the importance of greater federal oversight of the capital markets.
Meanwhile, McCain’s willingness to engage in lies and smears is getting greater attention. Not only is the mainstream media expressing disappointment in how changed their formerly straight talking darling is, but Youtube is filling up with lots of examples of McCain flipflops and misstatements.
McCain’s appearance on The View last Friday was one of those “What Was He Thinking?” moments. If he thought he would reinforce his new appeal to women by going on the show and continuing to bask in Sarah’s glow, he was greatly mistaken.
Check out how one observer nicely fillets McCain following his View appearance:
You gotta love this guy named Cenk Uygur who is telling it like it is on his www.theyoungturks.com site.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. How about the stuff coming out of bravenewfilms.org?
This is the test. For every uncommitted or independent voter who refuses to support Obama because they think he’s a Muslim (not that there’s anything wrong with that) or because they were told he wouldn’t put his hand on his heart during the national anthem, ten or twenty need to see this stuff and realize how clear their choice is.
The internet; instrument for good or for evil? Truth or lies?
We’ll know Nov. 5th
