Burning down the house
It seems like the majority of media coverage for the Democratic National Convention has focused on the Clinton-Obama split and not the Obama message. Despite the best efforts of everyone involved, including Hillary Clinton, I don’t expect a convention bounce for Obama.
Maybe he’ll turn things around, but even on the “new” MSNBC (sort of recasting itself as a center-left version of FOX), it’s Republican talking points 24-7.
Maybe we’ve just lost too many times, but my gut tells me that John McCain is going to win this one. I don’t want to type these words, but that’s what I think. I’d be thrilled if Obama won, but I’m so used to losing now, it’s hard to believe otherwise.
With the media endless pumping the “lack of experience” meme, there’s not much that can be done until that notion becomes truth the general voting public. When not spending their time beating up Obama for not going balls to the wall negative against McCain at the convention, they’re focused on a handful of PUMA’s who flew home following Hillary’s speech.
I honestly believe that McCain and his neocon advisers are going to pull us into further global conflict and really wreck the economy as a side effect of their adventures. Also, the military — currently strained by their engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan — is going to break if we add a conflict with Russian into the mix.
The sad thing is, we’ve already been down this road. In 2004, those of us who opposed George W. Bush’s re-election were dubbed irrational haters, when we were in fact right about the war and its effects on the economy. I don’t know if I can live through another four years of the same policies without losing my mind.
Barack Obama has to win. But for some reason, the country takes everything he says or does and interprets it the wrong way, bringing the poll numbers down. I guess all those people unhappy with Bush don’t really understand the policies they’re unhappy with. Do they really want to borrow billions from the Chinese to go to war with Russia, while cutting even more taxes for the rich? Can our country afford another four years of that? And what about health care? McCain wants to make it possible for people to use tax credits to buy health care from companies in other states. Gee, that sounds like a practical solution.
It’s only a matter of time before the standard of living in America is little better than in the developing world. There’s only so many jobs that can be shipped overseas before that happens. The Republicans are setting the country on fire and burning the house straight down to the dirt beneath its foundations. I can’t believe this is happening, that people are letting it continue, but what can I do? One vote counts only so much.
