The media is in the bad for Obama. We all know this. However, is the heavy focus on Obama a bad thing? The public wants a Democrat in the White House. They view the Bush Presidency as failed and they want change. The more McCain is in the headlines the more people will be reminded that he is a Republican and they will be less likely to vote for him in the fall.
The new NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll shows that the election is shaping up as a referendum on Obama, not McCain. By a 55-40 margin, the public is more interested in an Obama Presidency than a McCain. Obama has dominated the headlines the last month and McCain has faded from view. You would behard pressed to know he is even running for President. This has worked to McCain’s benefit. The last round of polling shows McCain with higher numbers in Michigan, Colorado, where he is now leading, and Minnesota.
The coverage is biased and unfair, but it has put McCain in the only position possible to win. His best bet is probably to take the next few months off and let third party groups, the RNC and surrogates unleash a never before seen bombardment of negative attacks on Obama while the sycophants in the press document his every move. If this election is a referendum on Obama and not McCain running for Bush’s third term, McCain will win.
My only question is what took him so long to realize democrats were communists?
Stern described a phone conversation he had with his agent, who he described as a “liberal Democrat kind of guy.”
“I go, ‘That’s it!’” Stern said. “[I] go, ‘You know what Don, I’ve voted Republican and I’ve voted Democrat. I have vowed I will never vote for a Democrat again. I don’t give a [expletive] – no matter who they are. I don’t care if God becomes a Democrat.’ I said, ‘I backed Hillary Clinton, I backed Al Gore, I backed John Kerry. I am done with them.’”
Stern took it a step even further and called Democrats on the FCC “communists” and referred to their tactics as “gangsterism.”
“The fact that these Democrats on the FCC are communists,” Stern said. “They’re for communism. They don’t want to see companies – this is gangsterism. I said, ‘This is crazy.’
I guess this is the time of year when everyone who won’t be asked to be Vice President says they are not interested in the job. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has taken himself out of the running to be John McCain’s running mate.
Jindal is a rising star in the conservative movement. He can establish his own brand name in the party without being the number 2 man on a ticket Republicans are not fired up about. Instead of being seen as a John McCain Republican, something that would not be attractive to the base of the party, he can become his own man as the party seeks new, conservative leadership.
Jindal has a few rough spots to iron out. His support of the Real ID Act and a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning are out of step with conservative thought. The Real ID Act takes away from the ability of states to set their own standards for Drivers ID’s and a ban on flag burning takes away the freedom to express one’s self politically. Restrictions on free speech in the form of McCain-Feingold have the conservative base rightly suspicious about Senator McCain and his governing philosophy so anything Jindal can do to separate himself from this position will be a good thing. Jindal has time on his side. He is only 37 years old and is in the first year of his term as Louisiana’s Governor. He will have a platform to articulate and enact his own conservative agenda so there really is no need to for him to be McCain’s running mate in 2008.
Here is some rhetorical brilliance from Barack Obama’s press conference in Aman, Jordan.
I wonder what John Stewart and Colbert will have to say about this. Surely since we live in the golden age of sarcasm they must be licking their chops and the prospect of Obama’s limited ability to articulate his thoughts unless they are on a teleprompter.
While the Democrat Party and their Messiah rail against gas tax holidays as cheap gimmicks and vote in congress to raise the national gas tax by ten cents, Democrat Party officials will not hav to pay the state or federal gas tax when they have their convention in Denver at the end of August. This is old hat for the Democrat Party. Al Gore uses enogh energy for his home to power the third world yet wants everyone else to reduce their carbon footprint, so the do as I say, not as I do mentality with regards to the gas tax should suprise no one.
Andrea Mitchell, correspondent for Obama’s cheering section at MSNBC, blasts Obama for doing “fake interviews” during the Hope and Change ‘08 World Tour.
Senator John McCain had better back off taunting Senator Barack Obama about appearing with him in town hall meetings. This tact has already proven to be a gigantic loser for the Republican Nominee. One of Senator McCain’s early talking points was that Senator Obama would meet with foreign dictators but not the generals in Iraq. The McCain campaign made a mistake of criticizing Obama on something that was easily correctable. Obama called McCain’s go to Iraq critique and raised it with a foreign trip that has featured adoring media coverage and the Prim Minister of Iraq seeming to endorse Obama’s 16-month withdrawal plan. Oops.
This trip also helped chip away at the perception that Obama is not Commander in Chief material as the
McCain could be making a fatal error in trying to goad Obama into accepting a joint town hall event. Such an event would be covered by every major cable and over the air network and would be nationally televised. Senator McCain is seen as a master of the format, but that may be a reputation that was better deserved in the 2000 campaign than 2008. Senator McCain’s most famous gaffes- promising more wars during the Florida primary, breaking into chorus about bombing Iran and calling Social Security a “disgrace”- have come in town hall events. Debate formats have been widely seen as Obama’s weakness. He is not quick on his feet and without the benefit of teleprompter, he tends to ramble and become incoherent. The soft bigotry of low expectations would play in Obama’s favor as he would merely have to appear competent instead of dazzling. Obama appearing in a format McCain supposedly the master of and appearing Presidential would pretty much end the campaign. The polls are close not because John McCain has appeal beyond Republicans, but because the nation has not come to a conclusion as the Obama’s fitness to serve as President. Once that threshold is crossed, there is no realistic chance for Senator McCain to win the election.
