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Tag: mccain
Is Karl Rove Trying to Influence McCain VP Selection?
It’s possible. The Politico is reporting that the Architect himself, Karl Rove, was the friend referred to in a column Robert Novak wrote today about Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). The column says a friend urged Lieberman to call McCain and withdrawal himself for consideration for running mate.
Will McCain Pick an Outsider?
Since most of the DemoConvention 2008 mania for today is yawn invoking, I just briefly wanted to offer up some thoughts on where I think John McCain might go in his Vice Presidential selection.
Are We Done Yet?
So Barack Obama is a celebrity who likes to chomp on arugula, get buff at the gym, and like to gather crowds and make speeches around the world as if he’s already President.
So John McCain is a Hollywood and late night show favorite whose rich wife owns upwards of seven houses and likes to send his surrogates to Georgia as if he’s already President.
Are both by definition elitists, then? Probably.
Should we move on from these stupid character attacks by both candidates that do nothing but deflect from the real issues? Definitely.
Is that really likely? Probably not.
But Are They Ready to Lead?
Barack Obama recently responded to John McCain’s “Celeb” ad suggesting that Obama was too a huge celebrity but not ready to lead.
While I think the ad is effective in pointing out the hypocrisy of McCain calling him a celebrity, it’s still a character attack, and I think the old adage “two wrongs don’t make a right” applies here.
Meanwhile, John McCain isn’t backing down from the “he’s a celebrity” brand of ads.
For me, McCain’s insistence on keeping to the celebrity argument is the same as Barack Obama keeping on repeating the “100 years” statement.