HOW JOHNNY GOT HIS GROOVE BACK
8/12/2008
Senator John McCain has a spring in his step, a
twinkle in his eye, and a basket full of TV ads that have sent the media
into a tizzy not seen since Bill Clinton was unfairly accused of driving
up Monica Lewinsky's dry cleaning bill. How dare he use Obama's words
against him. how dare he make fun of his President for a day tour of
Europe. Over the last two weeks Obama has seen his lead evaporate to an
almost statistical dead heat. and the battleground states are slowly
leaning towards McCain.
So what happened? Why has McCain suddenly
emerged as a viable threat? Obama was crowned President of everything
months ago.
He hasn't run a campaign as smart as the media would
like us to believe. First of all the strategy to convince people that a
vote for McCain is a vote for a Bush third term has back fired, and for
two reasons. First of all McCain has never been considered a party
lockstep per. hence his nickname the Maverick. The Obama campaign, which
includes the Mainstream Media use this at every opportunity. And the two
examples they always give are the Iraq war which is not popular but we are
winning, and the Bush tax cuts which are in fact popular. To this end
McCain, who has been quietly distancing himself from the President has not
suffered from this strategy.
Obama has also allowed his campaign to
be defined for him. McCain's chief complaint was Obama does not have
foreign Policy experience. He went further by challenging the Senator to
go to Iraq and see for himself . Obama took the bait. Unfortunately for
the Obama campaign the Senator mistook the need to shore up his Foreign
Policy credentials with the supposed need to look Presidential. And he
achieved this by pretending he was indeed the President. The Germans loved
this. The American voter not so much. This did nothing to temper down the
feeling that Obama is elitist and reeks of hubris.. He picked a good week
to go on vacation.
-The New Stereophonic Bert Spivey
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