Obama can not win against Palin

I never thought I would say this, but Karl Rove wrote a very impartial and meaningful article in the WSJ and I agree with him. I ask the liberals to hold their breath for a few moments and actually read the article and while you are it take a bitter pill and actually hear the Palin speech ( I recommend her recent speech on her return to Alaska, less crowd and fewer chants of “Palin, Palin” to raise your blood pressure) and you will see why she is such a big hit. It is not the words coming out of her mouth it is the way she delivers them. I am reminded of the Reese Witherspoon character in “Legally Blond”.

 

While I do agree with Karl Rove about how Obama should not be attacking Palin and why it is a losing proposition for him, I believe the Obama campaigns conundrum is how do you respond when Palin has completely sucked all the oxygen of media coverage and seriously thrown them off their message. The interest that she has evoked and because of this reformist aura around her, she has actually been able to define Obama rather then it being the other way around. The egos in Obama campaign just could not resist the temptation to take a few pot shots at her.

I think it would be in Obama-Biden’s interest to resist the urge to take shots at Palin and keep the attacks on John McCain. The media frenzy would die down in a few days and it may die quicker if they don’t keep making statements about Pigs and Lipsticks giving the McCain campaign even more fodder. You have to give to the McCain campaign that they have been able to control the message very well.

 Moreover the left wing should stop hyperventilating about how John McCain could pick Sarah Palin, instead of somebody experienced if they want to win this election. I think part of the reason why Democrats are so off message is because they didn’t think Sarah Palin was a worthy opponent. They were expecting somebody formidable with a lot of experience and instead got given a replica of the right wing Barack Obama. How do you tarnish their Obama without tarnishing your own.

Sooner or later people will know she is just another politician. When the dust settles, Barack Obama does not want to come out more bruised then Sarah Palin.

He should stay above the fray and keep his focus on John McCain. His fighting for the Presidency not the VP’s spot

The American Voter’s need to relate with the President

Why does the American voter feel the need to relate to the President and do anything with him? Why do we feel we need the President to be like us and yet we elect ones that are nothing like us. We elected one, eight years ago that people felt they could have a beer with, now we are rooting for one who according to Amity Shales (author, columnist and senior fellow, CFR):

Women want to have fun with other women. Palin seems like someone you would run a 10k with.

Are you kidding me, you wanna have fun with her invite her to your house for drinks, arrange a get-together with your kids, run that 10K you want to with her or better yet go on that moose hunt, why do you want to vote as my VP??

This constant need to be able to relate with the President is giving us one mediocre President after the other. I admire the American, can do spirit, as much as the other guy but don’t tell me that everyone is cut out to be the President. If by chance we do come across somebody who may be smarter then us we deride him as “Elitist”, we complain “he talks to us instead of talking with us”. The last president that we felt we could relate to, happened to be of the same caliber as the rest of us and therefore, his gift to us is an unfinished war, record deficit, mounting debt, crumbling infrastructure, lost jobs, a weakening economy and an inability to solve our problems because he turned us into sulking children who cannot talk through our problems. His solution to all our problems was tax cuts and more tax cuts. Forget about the fact that soon we would not have any income to pay taxes on.

How about this time we elect somebody who is, better then us. Who is, more capable then us. I don’t want a drinking buddy or a running mate or a hunting partner, I need a President who will make sure 4 years later I will still have a job.

The Media is going to cost us this election

John McCain runs an ad completely distorting Obama’s vote on sex education for children and the media runs the news with the headline “Obama aide questions John McCain’s honour“. Are you freaking kidding me? Have they completely lost their mind? How about saying what is true “John McCain has sold his soul to win this election” or ”John McCain takes a chapter from George Bush’s book”. The same Karl Rovian tactics that brought down John McCain’s campaign in South Carolina in 2000 are now being used by John McCain himself against Barack Obama.

When will the media start playing an impartial role and start reporting the news based on its merits. When they are not completely fawning over Barack Obama, they are reporting half truths and lies about the other campaign.

After going for months how he would run a clean campaign and how he is different from George Bush, McCain has even stopped keeping up the pretenses. He is milking his POW status, everytime he opens his mouth and now with Sarah Palin on the ticket any kind of criticism is either questioning his patriotism or being sexist.

The Senator should hope that Sarah Palin will deliver him the Presidency, because, the way he has run his campaign, he has completely lost respect among independent minded people. I not only question his honour, I also question his judgement.

This is the same John McCain who introduced an immigration reform bill but then buckled under pressure from the right wing of his party. He wants to lead the country but only wants to listen to right wing.

This is the same John McCain who wanted to reform the electoral process but now has the same people run his campaign that he tried to shut down in 2000.

This is the same John McCain who wants to do something about climate change but then goes out and selects as VP, somebody who questions whether human beings are even responsible for climate change.

This is the same John McCain who wants America to have a comprehensive energy policy, but the only policy he can come up with is the slogan “Drill, baby drill”. Let me ask the Senator – Would this oil production be controlled by the government i.e nationalised or be sold on the free market? If it goes on the free market how on earth does this solve our energy needs, as whoever pays the highest price gets the oil, which is no different from what we have today. This does nothing to alleviate our energy needs as it is no different from what we have today. You can increase the supply of oil all you want, all it does is increase the demand for oil. Like I wrote earlier drilling in ANWR only means cheaper oil for the Chinese.

Senator do you really take us for fuckin’ fools?

How Does this work?

I just heard Cindy McCain’s speech. She appeared to be a very smart, articulate, very well travelled, compassionate woman. She studied at USC, California and has done a lot of charitable work. Her views while being conservative are reasonable. A lot of this must have, at some stage, rubbed off on John McCain. How does he then go out to pick Sarah Palin, a book banning, religious zealot who thinks Iraq war is a mission from God, that the solution to America’s energy problems is to drill bay drill and then drill some more, that just because she sold a symbol of excesses of her own party on Ebay it some how makes her a maverick and a reformer.  

I am beginning to think Karl Rove may have been right, this is a political choice rather then governing one.

Palin – Nice speech, sets a high bar, would she be able to live up to it

Sarah Palin’s speech to RNC convention has been good so far, its funny, laced with enough jabs at Obama, Biden and the Democratic Congress. I don’t like anything i hear but it is still a good speech, considering she has no national experience. Looks like those hours of practise have paid off. Cindy McCain could not have been happier, seeing the sigh of relief she let out after Palin was finished. Question is when there are no teleprompters to read from, would she still be able name Ahmadinejad on the map. This election is turning quite intriguing, either way we are going to end up with two really inexperienced candidates, only i agree with one more then i agree with the other.

Palin-McCain’08 – McCain decides to drop out in favour of Palin

After hearing all the speakers at the RNC convention harp on VP nominee Sarah Palin’s executive experience, Sen. McCain has decided to pull his name from the top of the Republican ticket, and run as VP to Sarah Palin, given her extensive experience as the mayor of Wasilla and then the governor of Alaska. As the Senator mentioned that since he had never managed any kind of a budget and never had to make any executive decisions, he felt he did not have enough experience to be running for the top job in the land.

Funny Sarah Palin Pictures

From Daniel Kurtzman, About.com

Senator McCain will now actively campaign for Sarah Palin as the President and I think Jon Stewart seems to agree with me.

The Young and the Very Old

McCain-Plain’08 in trouble already.

The conservatives in the Republican party really got thrown off by John McCain’s curve ball. Waking up in the morning after praying all night for Mitt Romney to find that McCain had selected a virtual nobody from Alaska as his running mate, they are having a real hard time trying to get their minions excited about the pick. Here are a examples of the their talking points -

-She calls her husband “First Dude”

- Her favourite meal is “Moose Stew”

-She’s a lifelong member of NRA

-Former beauty queen.

-Alaska first female governor and youngest ever.

The last one get buried underneath everything else. We wouldn’t want to highlight the inexperience now, would we.

McCain makes a play for Hillary supporters

I can come up with no other explanation for John McCain’s selection of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, as his running mate other then that he is desperately vying for the disgruntled supposedly Hillary, but not-Hillary, supporters.

As a Republican argument for experience, I don’t see anybody as inexperienced as Gov. Palin come as close to being the POTUS as Sarah Palin. Talk about on the job training. The Mayor of Los Angeles has more experience running an institution of much more larger scale then the state of Alaska (no disrespect to Alaskans, but that is how it is). The total population of Alaska is less then 700,000 people. How does that prepare one to be the second in line to be the President ??

In her own words after being elected the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin remarked ” The voter’s of Alaska took a chance on a virtual nobody by electing her”. Well if that is the case why are the Karl Roves in Sen. McCain’s trying to scare people about Sen. Obama.

Any Hillary supporters who support Gov. Palin couldn’t have been Hillary Supporters to begin with, since the two are diametrically opposite on issues near and dear to female Democrats. She is not just pro-life, she is anti-choice. She is a moose burger chomping, commercial fisher, animal hunting member of the NRA. I guess it is OK to hunt animals but not OK to destroy a few cells in the human body. How can they even consider voting for somebody like that.

What is even more intriguing to me, is that the same conservative advisers to John McCain, who get so riled up at the suggestion that blacks would be supporting Obama because he is black, calling it reverse racism, have no problem with assuming that women would just vote for women because of gender without regard for issues. Does anybody else see the disconnect?