Pure Schizophrenia in the McCain Campaign

Even more spectacularly than we could have ever hoped the love triangle between McCain, Palin and Hicktown USA is imploding. McCain's desperately to remind us he is human, Palin's trying to show us she's Superhuman and Hicktown is reeling with the news that Obama isn't an Arab.

One particularly blinkered McCain supporter Gayle Quinnel has typified the whole of the Republican campaign, showing it to be bigoted and playing on the farcicaly ill-educated people it uses for it's supporter base. When Mz Quinnel was asked why she couldn't trust Obama she fumbled for a while, spouted rubbish and then looked confused. Meanwhile the American people watched on in disgust as though she were a gymnast with diarrohea.

GQ: "He's not, he's a...umm, he's an Arab"
McCain: (Shakes head with despair)
GQ: "(Looks confused) He's not?"
McCain: "No"
GQ "No? (Even more confused, but wait he's black (sort-of) but not an A-rab, how the begeezus does that work!?)
McCain: (Respectfully) "No mam" (snatches microphone away)

McCain's next comment surely winning the backhanded political compliment of the year, and I paraphrase. "He's not an Arab he's a decent family man citizen." What!! Hang-on he's not an Arab, he's a family man. Miss GQ sure stands corrected there, does bigot cancel bigot or just create Texas?

We must all feel a little sorry for McCain, he old and tired. He's coming to the end of a hard-fought campaign with little chance of winning. His position is as un-desireable as a mooseWall St. He's stuck between the dim-witted grassroots supporters who's sole political knowledge comes from Republican publications and the dangerous maniachal Palin who seems intent on leaving McCain far behind to fight to Republican ticket in 4 years time. McCain, consider this a political obituary. Franklin

No-one saw the hole issue....

Despite some valiant attempts no-one including those in the 'mainstream' media saw the link between Senator and President-in-waiting Obama and Mr Stevenson.

The simple link, that both have been shown with holes in their shoes! Due to the many hours spent pounding the beat in Congress and on the Campaign trail; Obama has been photographed (possibly off-guard) and Adlai Stevenson's statue in Chicago airport is depicted with holes in the soles of his shoes. Franklin

The debate

The media says it was a draw. But was it? The widely anticipated US presidential debate was, and to some extend that surprised me, rather interesting. Still, I’m not too sure whether or not it was a draw between Mr McCain and Mr Obama. From an American point of view, I suppose I could understand why one would say it was a draw. Both seemed to bring their point across quite well, Obama seemed more involved, but McCain more like a statesman. But I think from a European point of view, many have realised that McCain is actually a man with some not too unimportant opinions and solutions for the US. This was quite surprising for many people over here, as many people in Europe love Obama as much as creationists love God. I personally am not a McCain supporter, but I do think that he was able to show quite a few people in the Old World, that he has quite some good ideas. He also, as I said earlier, came across more like a statesman, and not as a candidate. His answers weren’t as short and pregnant as those of Obama, but on the other hand he was not standing there, shaking his hand and simply saying something like “this is not true,” whenever he felt treated wrongly. Instead, he was able to actually explain where Obama was wrong, which made him appear, to a certain extend, more competent.
Nevertheless, both seem a bit like the macher, and that certainly is what America needs. They had grand ideas and both wanted to break with all the meshuga politics of Mr Bush. Here, naturally, McCain had more problems convincing the audience than Senator Obama. I think, from a European point of view, McCain surprised with some sort of sharpness people did not expect him to have. Whereas Mr Obama was just like we expected him to be, remembering his words at the Siegessäule in Berlin. But, even though I just said a few positive things about McCain, somehow his Gordon Brownness, his old-fashioned slowliness, his awkward shiftlessness just annoyed me, especially towards the end of the debate… It was quite long after all – but still worth watching. Schreiber.

Is it Cameron's time?

“Clever, articulate, well educated, socially adept, politically astute, photogenic, charming, charismatic.” This is how this week’s Time magazine Europe describes David Cameron in its cover story.
The great-great-great-great-great-greatson (that is six times great) of King William IV, will enjoy reading this story, as Time magazine seems to like him a bit too much. The entire story in this sometimes not too bad weekly, is a disgusting sanctification of the boring joke, who tries to become Prime Minister.
And yes, Cameron seems to attract many voters. That is problematic. This constantly self-exposing elitist tries so hard to hide his lack of a concept, by saying things that just don’t mean anything. His slogan for example is “It’s time for change, change you can trust.” What?? What change?! Is he talking about the economy? The education system? His mobile phone contract? And how is this change going to look like?
You think you might be used to this kind of nice but empty words, as Blair used to do the same thing, but no, Cameron is much worse. Very much he says just does not quite mean anything.
And also his slogan (“It’s time for change, change you can trust.”) does sound a bit like Barack Obama’s “The change we can believe in, the change we need.” That’s just pathetic!
Anyway, just don’t pick up this week’s Time magazine Europe, as this little pro-Cameron PR article is simply rubbish. Its not investigative, not enlightening and definitively not worth reading.
Schreiber