Matt Stevens ([info]kent_allard_jr) wrote,
@ 2008-04-21 15:03:00
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Not Outragous, Just Doesn't Work
As I've said many times I support Obama for President. (Some people like my term "Obamanaut" so I'll repeat it here.) Still, I don't see what's so bad about this video. Yes, I know, McCain will use the same line of attack against Obama in the general, but so what? Honestly, it'd be a legitimate line of attack... from McCain. The problem as Matt Yglesias points out is "if this is an election about how in uncertain times we need to flee into the arms of a strong, comforting, figure of experience and authority then that figure is John McCain." It just doesn't work for Hillary Clinton, whose government experience consists of running the health care task force (badly), going on photo-ops, being an attack-dog for her husband and serving one term as an undistinguished NY senator. Plus, Obama could always respond with this:


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[info]agrumer
2008-04-21 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Funny thing is, the Hillary ad actually seems like a McCain ad to me. Something about the announcer's voice. He sounds like the kind of confident white guy that we're generally supposed to want to lead us, and, well, of the three candidates, McCain's the only white guy.

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[info]mrs_dm
2008-04-21 11:57 pm UTC (link)
Well done with the videos. I think they're right on.

For a Canadian, I think I'm following this Democratic primary fairly closely. Maybe that's because, in order to understand the jokes on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, I end up watching CNN during the day too.

A week or so ago, I would have been hard pressed to decide who to vote for (like I have a choice!). They both seemed like good candidates. Then the inevitable happened and Obama made his colossally stupid "bitter" remark. I say it's stupid because I would think if one were a presidential candidate, one would have to assume all one's remarks were liable to be broadcast across the world. I know he thought he was among friends in this closed-door fund raiser in San Francisco, but come on!

Look, one of the things you learn as a doctor is that everything you write in a chart can potentially be used as evidence in a medico-legal case. So you don't write things like, "This fat, stupid patient presented with a cough..." or something. Don't politicians have some similar policy?

So that turned me off Obama for a few days, but then Hillary started milking that cow. And that turned me off even more. Last night, I tuned in to a repeat of CNN's "Compassion and Faith Forum" for a few minutes...until I had to turn it off for fear of vomiting up my supper. Hillary was going on about "feeling the prescence of God and the Holy Spirit" in her life and "being in a state of grace". Come on! What is this? An election or a Sunday morning revival show? I thought the U.S. was founded on the separation of Church and State.

Needless to say, it really got my Unitarian hackles up.

Enough said, I'm getting angry. And last time I checked, I think that was a venial sin.

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[info]jlc
2008-04-22 03:16 am UTC (link)
Please tell me that clip is making the rounds of the pundoblogoversanewsfeedatron

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