Posted by
Priscilla Vanilla on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:36:48 PM
So, this is where as lifetime of being bi-partisan has gotten John McCain. Several points behind in all the polls to a left-winger with radical ideas. I hope he's happy cause I'm not! McCain did so many things wrong in this campaign, the only thing he did right was at the begining when he hung in there and watched his competiton fall away. But it's not going to happen again, not with a young, charismatic speaker like Obama as an opponent. His posturing on the financial crisis seems silly and contrived now. His leadership was non-existent, and embarrassing because it became clear that no one really cared what McCain had to say.
McCain has had several opportunities to damage Obama's credibility and question his credentials. In stead, all we have gotten is McCain trying to be all thing to all people and he keeps reaching his hand across the aisle only to have it slapped. Now is not the time for bi-partisanship cooperation! It's the time to stand up strongly for your party and its beliefs, and to proclaim loudly that YOU would be the best person for the most important job in the world and HE would not, and here's why.
Whatever happened to the Tony Rezko investigation? Shouldn't it be brought up? Obama was very close to this man, who many say helped him buy his Hyde Park mansion. And whatever happened to William Ayers and that whole thing? Ayers history as a violent radical would be a perfect foil for McCain given his POW war hero status. Yet we haven't even heard the name mentioned in weeks. In fact, I heard McCain say a couple of times, and once unbelieveably during the debate, that he respected Obama's work as a community organizer! why in the world would he say that? Even it were true, you don't heap praise on your opponent's controversial involvement in a quasi-radical organization! Does he think that's going to win him some votes? From whom - the black community? that'll be the day! I wonder who is handling McCain - maybe the answer is no one?! Maybe he's a candidate who cannot be managed, being the maverick he is, he marches to the beat of his own drum. Unfortunately, he might be marching himself right out of contention for the job he supposedly has always wanted.