How will they attack Barack?
Same old way. McCain is already running that nutty commercial that "contrasts" McCain's experiences in 1967 with someone else's experiences in the Summer of Love. Which is interesting, because Obama was born in the same year as me, and I can tell you what I was doing in the Summer of Love: playing tag in my parents' backyard with the other incoming 1st Graders.
Stupid as it is, no doubt they've tested it on focus groups (mostly seniors) and think it'll work. Taint by association with those other hippie Dems. Plus NPR did a story today about how a lot of hispanics are convinced that Obama first abandoned the Muslim religion, and now he's abandoning Christianity. Look for McCain's proxies to use the name "Hussein" approximately 100,000 times this summer.
Obama is obviously good at theater, and the Repubs are probably scared s***less by the whole Invesco Field thing. He'll come out of the DNC with a 15 point lead. The only way to chip away is through the slander and innuendo machine.
Which is a shame, because there's a lot of half-baked and just plain stupid policy proposals pouring out of Obama right now.
One interesting thing: Mickey Kaus at Slate.com was the first to notice it, but I think we'll be hearing a lot more about it soon. At what point does a slightly greater degree of peace and stability in Iraq (coupled with the al-Maliki Govt -- the Govt we saw installed through the rough hewn democratic process -- calling on us to get the hell out) start to cut in Obama's favor? What's McCain left with then?
Oh, by the way: Wes Clark is right. Getting shot down and being a POW does not necessarily make you a good presidential candidate, or a good executive.
And Phil Gram is right, too: this is a nation of whiners.
Maybe I just wish we had presidential candidates who were willing to say such obvious truths themselves instead of letting their stooges do the dirty work.
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