Posts Tagged ‘media’

John McCain, as seen in his commercials

I decided to wait a few days to post anything, mostly because the last few days of the presidential campaign have made me so angry — I’m not sure I can trust myself not to say something I’d regret later.

Granted, the whole mess is frustrating and leads to a sense of de ja vu all over again — where we enter the bizarro world of presidential elections when facts stop mattering and whomever can lie the best wins. Just so we’re clear on this: John McCain is a bald-faced liar. As are his campaign trolls, who lacking anything like a semblance of fact on their side, are basically just making things up.

I suppose having it done to me four years ago should have made me less annoyed to see it again. And it’s a good thing that Obama continues to strike back, instead of stammering uselessly as both John Kerry and I did.

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This has all played out, I suppose, the way you might have predicted: the Republicans as ranking playground bully run right to momma when someone socks ‘em in the nose. I’m just impressed that the GOP media operatives are able to make the claims they’ve made with a straight face. While the GOP media strike team has made more than its share of blunders in the past two weeks, you have them give them points for sheer ballsyness.

But everything does seem to be going to form: the Palin revelation of the day — and you’d think this stuff would slow down, but it keeps coming fast and furious.

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Bill Clinton. Which Clinton do we see tonight?

Okay, regardless of how the pundits slice and dice it, Hillary Clinton got the job done last night. It was a great speech and it hit all the right notes, especially in light of the pathetic attack-dog commercials John McCain has been running. Most of the delegates seemed to get it — that failing to fight for Obama was failing to fight for the things Clinton has been fighting for — and she made the point very strongly.

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Of course, CNN’s train-wreck convention coverage managed to find a delegate unable to come to terms with reality: Anne Price Mills of Washington State. Generously, she said she wouldn’t vote for McCain in November, but that Obama had two months to convince her to vote for him.

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