When doing right is good politics
I don’t believe for a nanosecond that there is any, even a speck, of political calculation involved in Barack Obama’s decision to go to Hawaii to see his ailing grandmother.
But anyone who thinks that this (video) is going to cost Obama politically is an idiot.
Update: It seems I was wrong. According to a McCain surrogate, far from being the right thing to do, the real scandal today (as opposed to Palin’s clothes) is the fact Obama is taking his campaign plane on this personal trip.
Can someone please tell me how we managed to lose to these guys for so many years?
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Sometimes I do have to laugh.
Firstly ‘Visiting grandma’ ? Blakeman just pissed of half the grandmas in the country if not the world.
He used a campaign plane? Well and good to point out that he shouldn’t have but then it is followed up with “…or taking a smaller plane. … “ hello, if it is wrong it is wrong and the size is rather moot.
Between McCains tantrums, Palins hollowness (thank you Mr. Eliot) and the overall lack of management ability the party has shown so far I have to wonder if the Republicans actually trying to loose this election or are they simply this incompetent.
T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
October 24th, 2008 at 12:39 am
I said that McCain’s campaign and supporters would try to use Obama’s trip to see his grandmother against him. And, they have done so. They are addicted to sleaze, smears and hatemongering. In other words, they are desperate. Anything goes!