“I think the dirty little secret is that McCain could win this in a landslide. I actually do,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Tuesday. “I think there is so much huff and puffery here about Obama, and the bloom has long ago gone off that rose. It happened during the Democrat primaries.” Limbaugh contends that the public is learning that Obama is all style and no substance.
If the vice presidential prospects of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius — or of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine or Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, for that matter — don’t pan out, blame Vladimir Putin. The Nation blogger John Nichols writes that the Russia-Georgia conflict “should put an end to the Obama camp’s ‘electoral-map’ approach to the task” of picking a running mate and suggests that Obama is coming across like a diplomat without a plan: “The prospect that the next president might, on Jan. 20, 2009, be confronted with the immediate challenge of a resurgent Russia, and all of the geopolitical consequences of such a development, should put an end to the discussion of putting a Kaine or a Sebelius, or even a Bayh, on the ticket.” Instead, Nichols directs the Obama team back to Sens. Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden.
John McCain’s latest Web advertisement is a spoof about an Obama fan club but continues to take a low road, visually linking Barack Obama to airheaded young white women in racially and sexually charged ways. Like the Paris Hilton/Britney Spears “celebrity” ad, this one features several women, with one admiring his “soft eyes” and the voice-over calling him “dreamy,” followed by the message “Hot chicks dig Obama.”
Sorry, but the nation deserves a more elevated debate than “Hot chicks dig Obama.”
Obama has responded to McCain’s celebrity ad with his own negative advertisement calling McCain “Washington’s biggest celebrity,” and showing McCain repeatedly hugging President Bush. He’s also running much more positive ads that emphasize job creation, etc.
It’s unclear whether Obama has found a way to effectively counter McCain’s attack ads while holding to his promise to run a different kind of campaign. And are voters even paying attention right now?
My colleague J.D. Crowe has been sending shots across the bow of Boeing again. Why, er, yes, as a matter of fact, he does happen to be the cartoonist for the Mobile Press-Register, and Mobile is where the Airbus tanker would be assembled. Nevertheless, he’s doing a fine job of defending his local economy. But according to our article last week about the Air Force’s bidding process, the cards are still stacked in Airbus’ favor. And now Boeing is considering not bidding on the new contract.
The following satirical news story comes from borowitzreport.com:
“A member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human story line to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event.
“Tracy Klujian, the expelled diver, was not raised by a single mother, never had a career-threatening injury, and did not overcome a personal tragedy of any kind before making the Olympic diving team, U.S. Olympic officials revealed today.”
“I think the dirty little secret is that McCain could win this in a landslide. I actually do,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Tuesday. “I think there is so much huff and puffery here about Obama, and the bloom has long ago gone off that rose. It happened during the Democrat primaries.” Limbaugh contends that the public is learning that Obama is all style and no substance.
