So the second debate is in the books, my friends, and it seems that McCain is not getting out the message as well as he might wish.
I have no doubt that some of the problem is related to McCain’s policies as he presents them...but to be completely honest, there may be an additional factor.
To put it as bluntly as possible: McCain looks a little...creepy.
And it’s not just me: The Girlfriend was mentioning how creepy he looked in the debate as we talked about it this morning. Ask around, and someone might describe him that way to you.
Why is that so, how is this observation going to affect McCain going forward; and most important of all...how does this connect to the Burger King and the design of video game characters?
To help answer the question, let me introduce you to Dr. Masahiro Mori.
Senator McCain at a March 1990 hearing of the Senate Ethics Committee investigating the relationship between a group of senators and banker Charles Keating Jr.
The following email originated from a professor of classics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. It is making the rounds on the Internet, and I thought I would share it with you. It reflects the personal experience of a person who had this misfortune to vacation with John and Cindy McCain on Turtle Island in Fiji. She previously had shared it with members of her family, but now that McCain is running for president, she decided she needed to forward to people to let it circulate on the Internet in an effort to dissuade undecided voters from voting for John McCain:
Apparently feeling there’s no other way to win, the McCain campaign is now trying to “go negative” in an effort to make Obama unelectable.
Obama has tried to stay above that sort of thing...and while Obama may be a better human being than that...I’m not.
We will divert away from the usual high minded conversation about issues today—and we will instead lay out a few unpleasant facts John McCain would rather you forget about.
Some of today’s discussion reveals McCain’s financial corruption...then there’s McCain giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” back in his Vietnam days...and for those who may have forgotten, a few words about ugly divorces and near-bigamy and the ending of McCain’s friendship with Ronald Reagan.
The following video ad was produced by veteran inlookout and linked, in the replys, in an initial writeup posted at Vet Voice after the Debate.
John McCain Loves Cutting Veterans Health Benefits
This is what is in the video description:
After watching McCain in the first presidential debate pander about how much he cared about veterans, I found his statements so disingenuous I decided to put together this video highlighting the hypocrisy of his words.
Nothing says Debate like a good old fashion catfish fry and festival. Rock the Vote, today, organized a two stage hoedown in Oxford, Mississippi on the Ole Miss campus in preparation for the debate extravaganza to unfold.
Word on the street was the free t-shirts and swag was the best. Who doesn't love a free shirt?
It has been an extraordinarily bad week for John McCain, what with his interest in Sarah Palin’s boobs apparently keeping him from being sufficiently aware of the “fundamental soundness” of the economy...but luckily for McCain, the news cycle turns; and a hotel bombing in Pakistan might be the opening his campaign thinks it needs.
With that in mind, expect the next week leading up to Friday’s Presidential debate to be full of references to McCain’s favorite subject...“the transcendent challenge of our time—Islamofascism”...or something eerily similar.
This new ad for Barack Obama comes out swinging. As it notes that John McCain admits he doesn’t understand the economy, it asks who advises him. Then it answers that questions with three names: Carly Fiorina, “the fired CEO who got a $42 million golden parachute”; Phil Gramm, “the ex-Senator who pushed through deregulation, and called Americans hurt by this economy ‘whiners’”; and George Bush “whose disastrous policies McCain wants to continue.” The ad concludes with two messages: “They think the economy is fundamentally strong. We know they’re fundamentally wrong.”
Thursday night the presidential candidates talked about their views on service.
Obama: "America is the greatest country on earth, but it didn't just happen on its own. It is not a gift only.... it is a responsibility."
This has been a key component of the Obama campaign from the very beginning. If you remember his acceptance speech during the Democratic Convention his line "We are the ones we've been waiting for" is key in his belief that Americans can solve the difficult challenges we face with millions of hands working together.
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