My friends, Eva Luna admits she sympathizes with corrupt politicians and terrorists!
Is this really the type of person you want to…
…ah crap. I just don’t have it in me to fake “teh stoopid” for even two posts. I denounce my prior post and repudiate my previously stated position.
Based on the videos I just watched of Republican rallies in Strongsville, OH and Bethlehem, PA, I’d be an epic failure as a McCain supporter. 
At least no one used the N word. That’s progress right?
Im sure they were all thinking it.
Hence my having been rendered speechless. People like that are buried under such a solid mountain of ignorance, it’s impossible to know where to begin chipping away.
Do you start with, “First of all, Arabs (and Turks, and Persians, et cetera) are not evil, filthy, baby-eating monsters. Just as many Arabs are forthright, intelligent, and honorable as Americans are. To use ‘Arab’ as a criticism is grotesque and idiotic. And even if that weren’t true, you’re wrong that Obama is one. You fail on both your spoken claim and your unspoken assumptions.” Or do you do it the other way around? “First of all, Obama is not an Arab, his heritage is African. And that aside…” and so on. Or the third alternative, do you simply stare silently at the woman while your brain short-circuits with horror and dismay?
Me, I usually land on the third option. Unfortunately.
Of course he’s a good actor. You don’t get to be one of the 100 members of the most powerful legislative body on the planet without being a good actor. Regardless of whether what you’re saying is true or not, it takes a good actor to convince people that it’s true.
Meanwhile, let me see if I’ve got this straight: The McCain campaign’s plan right now is to drop talking about all other issues to focus on Obama’s character. And Obama’s character is that he’s a good, upstanding American. Is that the gist of it?
Hmmm, it seems like to me that you have a proven track record of being able to call a spade a spade, at last as far as SDMB history is concerned. I recall the telemarketer thread with fondness.
Does this carry over to real life?
Back to the OP: McCain just isn’t doing himself any favors; even his half-defense of Obama isn’t helping. I think it’s just sheer obstreperous partisanship that’s keeping him in the race.
Are you kidding?
He gets it from our grandmother, I swear.
That’s what I thought. I also thought that most of them yelling “terrorist” wanted to yell “n**er”, but lacked the courage.
God, we are something. I am sick at this. Disgusting.
Well, I did say recently, and he seemed more sincere and spontaneous in that moment than I’ve seen him lately. However, now that he has released his first official statement since the event, I’ll be a lot less inclined to attribute sincerity to him ever again.
True, but it’s pretty easy to stay there, once you’re there.
McCain may have been a good actor back in 1986, but this is 2008.
And predictably, Obama was waiting for the statement and neatly gutted it.
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.” — El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Dick Morris, a somewhat enigmatic political presence, is wondering if McCain can even keep Obama under 400 EVs. Holy shit. Do polls actually support his bluing of WV, KY, TN and/or AR? And check out those tossup states!
His math on his own map is wrong, btw; I get 394 / 110 on that distribution, not 386 / 118.
Oh god, “Acorn Guy.” Hey, Bricker, where were you on Wednesday?
(You know, Lib, you and I may not have been friends over the years but lately, you have been kicking some serious ass)
I have no clue where that dude is getting his numbers.
The numbers in Indiana are way closer than Arizona, Georgia and Louisiana, and yet he has the former for McCain and the rest as toss ups.
RCP puts Indiana as +3.8 in favor of McCain. Arizona, Georgia and Louisiana are 11.3, 15.4, 6.8 in favor of McCain respectively.
Obama is winning slightly in NC, but McCain is up 14 points in both Kentucky and Kansas, and yet Dick Morris has them all leaning toward Obama. :dubious:
For Obama to break 400 he would need to win at least one state McCain has a lead of more than 10 points. Even with every state that is either a toss up, or leaning McCain, Obama will only get 395. So unless if by magic, social conservatives start voting for Obama, he won’t make it. With all the independents and Democrats on his side he’ll make it to 395 but no further.
Where the hell do those figures come from? AZ a tossup? I like the look of the map, but I’m pretty much inclined to dismiss it entirely.
Hahaha. The week Palin was picked, I heard Kos predict 350 EVs for Obama. I laughed at him at the time. I’m laughing at McCain now.
I think the real question now is whether McCain can finish this campaign with a shred of decency and dignity left. I’m beginning to doubt it.
I was around in 1968, and George Wallace campaigned with more apparent dignity than McCain has at the moment.
Sarah booed roundly at Philly game.
Christopher Buckley, William’s son and well regarded conservative, endorses Obama.
McCain has taken his campaign into places that make even rock-ribbed conservatives uncomfortable. Every day I get a little more hopeful that Barack can win. (Still can’t shake the ‘a black man? Named Hussien??? Not gonna happen’ feelings.)
We’re probably just both getting old. 