{"id":12868,"date":"2008-09-15T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/15\/politics-on-parade.html"},"modified":"2008-09-15T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:25:57","slug":"politics_on_parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/politics_on_parade.html","title":{"rendered":"Politics on Parade!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"citizen-kane\"<\/div>\n

Because you demanded it! Or … at least you decided to browse this page!<\/p>\n

Since everyone’s always interested in what’s going on with Sarah Palin … it’s got to be vaguely embarrassing when even your running mate used to pooh-pooh the experience of governors and mayors<\/a> to be President … at least when he (a senator) was running against them. Still, when talking in this<\/em> month, McCain and company (i.e., Palin) are quick to tout Palin’s national security expertise as a function of her energy industry expertise as a function of Alaska producing 20% of the nation’s energy. Which, of course, it doesn’t<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Palin seemed to strike an opposite tack by noting that other VP candidates haven’t had much in the way of national \/ international exposure. Which is true, as long as you stop counting at Spiro Agnew<\/a>. Palin’s also backpedaling on the whole global warming thing, claiming she never denied humans were affecting the climate — except, of course, when she did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But I’ll give Palin this — at least she knows how to laugh at herself<\/a>. No, really — it’s actually kind of impressive.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the GOP is so confident about the election, they’re coming up with all sorts of new ways to disenfranchise voters. Like, challenging anyone who’s on record receiving a foreclosure notice<\/a>. The idea being that, well, if you’ve received a foreclosure notice, then your address must automatically no longer be valid, and thus you are a filthy fake voter, and just because in Michigan that makes it more likely you are poor and\/or black and probably Democrat — well, that’s just icing on the cake. Never mind that receiving a notice doesn’t mean you’re out on the street, or that it’s no longer a legal residence — it’s just enough to challenge the vote to delay or eliminate it from the counting.<\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way — really, when you run for president, you give up 99% of your privacy. To that end — especially in his case, McCain really needs to let loose of his health records<\/a>. We, the public, need to know. And if there’s something that the campaign is going to assert is too private and non-germane to the public, then let it be vetted by a neutral party of experts. Locking a few journalists in a room to riffle through thousands of pages without notes or copies for just a few hours … no.<\/p>\n

The problem with pointing out that the McCain campaign is being both secretive and <\/em>lying left, right, and center (and again to the right) is that pointing that out doesn’t seem to make any difference<\/a>. Indeed, at least on the conservative side, the brain seems to be just fine with ignoring the facts<\/a>. Disturbing. It may be that the Silly Party will win again<\/a>. Though, to be sure, when even Fox news is calling you liar<\/a>, you know you’re in trouble.<\/p>\n

Throughout all of this, more and more people have been clamoring for Obama to strike back against the lies and attacks. I think he has a delicate balance to keep between maintaining the high road (keeping things from being smear-vs-smear) and not letting the mud stick through sheer volume. Despite raising lots of money in August<\/font><\/u>, McCain’s poll numbers have been climbing.  This ad might be the right way to tackle that<\/a> — not through anger and disdain, but sadness and calling the lies for what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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