Reassurance versus WOW

[woolldog]

THE ECONOMIST (blog)
June 13, 2008
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/06/reassurance_versus_wow.cfm

DICK MORRIS and Eileen McGann have a column on what both candidates need from a vice-president. They say (rather artlessly) something I had started to write in a much longer, now-discarded post: that John McCain needs a boost from his VP (they call it "WOW", in uppercase, in case you didn't know what "wow" is supposed to convey). Barack Obama, of course, needs experience, and not to screw up. Reassurance and experience being easier to find than a safe and effective source of WOW, I'd say that in the veepstakes, the advantages are Mr Obama's.

Being broadly right on the obvious points, though, they make some bizarre suggestions: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Joe Lieberman. One, Mr Powell, has said today that he is not sure whom he is voting for; we're guessing that takes him off Mr McCain's short list, in the highly improbable case he was ever on it. As for Ms Rice, why would John McCain feel the need to double-up on national security, especially with a chief architect of the war he has admitted was bungled at its start? And Joe Lieberman? Ditto on the doubling-up of Iraq-hawk credentials, plus, well, just come on. WOW? Joe Lieberman, whose political base now seems to include only himself and John McCain?

I'm taking Dick Morris even further off the list of people whose predictions I take remotely seriously.

Love the British sarcasm. :rofl: