Stumble It!
Oct 27 2008
Barack Obama: Measuring The Drapes
That’s McCain’s recent attack line. Measuring the drapes. Makes Obama sound arrogant, and more than a little effete. But while John McCain is busy throwing the kitchen sink and the damn plumber at Barack Obama, the Senator from Illinois is expanding his lead in key battleground states, motivating the largest and most effective ground game in history, and quietly assembling a solid, comprehensive transition team should he manage to make it to the White House.
So yes, Sen. McCain, in a sense Obama is mesuring the drapes. If by “drapes” you mean “panel of qualified individuals with the ability to steer us out of this morass”. Transition teams are necessary functions of any nominee, and like the selection of a running mate, tell a voter quite a bit about what kind of President the person will be if elected. For expample, Barack Obama’s transition team consists of “dozens of individuals — divided into working groups for particular federal agencies — to produce policy agendas and lists of recommended appointees. As evidence of their advanced preparations, officials provided a copy of the strict ethics guidelines that individuals working on the transition effort are required to sign.”
Contrast that with John McCain’s trasition team, which seems to be concentrating more on planting crab grass on the White House lawn, and giving McCain a reason to do this:
As reported earlier, the man chosen to be McCain’s transition team point man is William Timmons, bag man for Saddam and a man McCain once referred to as a crook. Which I suppose makes him qualified to be in a McCain administration…
We have in Barack Obama a thoughtful, pragmatic, forward looking candidate who has the youth and the vision to move this country forward. We have in John McCain an worn out soldier who wasn’t qualified to lead other soldiers, let alone his country. War horses deserve a nice pasture, and the chance to reflect on a long life of service, and I honestly hope John McCain gets just that…after a crushing defeat in a Presidential election where he sacrificed his integrity, sold his honor for talking points, and promoted division and open hostility because a power gambit was much more important than “Country First”.
So, you took off the gloves, huh?
Honestly, there is something to be said for leaving a place better than you found it. McCain, very much like Bush, has demonstrated a blind, tone deaf persona that has truly ravaged the political landscape. McCain’s Last Stand will be forever remembered in political history, not unlike Sherman’s March to the Sea. The only person he has to blame is himself. Meltdowns are hard and sad; when they become public, they are devastating. ~k
“We have in Barack Obama a thoughtful, pragmatic, forward looking candidate who has the youth and the vision to move this country forward.”
Long sustained applause. That’s really what this election comes down to. With the McCain camp IMPLODING like they have over their empty skirt people HAVE to see McCain and his crooks for who they are.
McCain’s campaign is toast, stick a fork in it. finito. Thank god! im ready for this election to be over, and to actually have a respectable president in the white house.