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Edited on Sun Aug-24-08 01:59 AM by NanceGreggs
… And that’s assuming there actually IS a “real” John McCain, hiding somewhere beneath that sorry pile of "I was a POW, need I say more?" rhetoric.
The presidential race so far between Obama and McCain has been – what’s the word? – ah, yes, interesting.
While Obama talks about the impact of outsourcing jobs and our disappearing manufacturing sector, McCain talks about Obama.
As Obama draws hundreds of thousands to hear him speak, McCain scrounges up a few dozen participants willing to listen to him talk about Obama.
Concurrent with Obama reaching out to millions of voters who are watching their shot at achieving the American Dream fade away, McCain emerges from one of his many houses (can’t recall how many) to talk about Obama.
While Obama points to the failed policies of the Bush administration, the burden of the national debt, the debacle in Iraq, the heathcare crisis, and the exorbitant prices average Americans are being forced to pay at the pump, McCain uses the one hour a day he’s willing (or able) to devote to campaigning as yet another opportunity to talk about Obama.
As Obama delivers eloquent, to-the-point speeches about the need for change, the need for a different perspective in dealing with our global neighbors, the need for creativity, innovation and imagination in revitalizing our economy and ending our dependence on oil from foreign nations, McCain refers to his pre-prepared notes and drones on and on – contributing absolutely nothing in the way of solutions to the mess we presently find ourselves in, while he instead talks about Obama.
Obama speaks about the economy; McCain talks about Obama.
Obama discusses the plight of ordinary citizens; McCain talks about Obama.
Obama talks about hope and change, and a better tomorrow for all Americans; McCain talks about Obama.
If John McCain has a single, solitary idea about how to turn this nation around – a nation that eighty percent of Americans believe is on the wrong track – I’ve yet to hear it. I know what McCain thinks of Obama – and so far, that’s pretty much all I know of what he thinks about anything. And I - along with millions of voters, no doubt - am still left wondering if he even has the capacity to think at all.
At the beginning of this one-on-one race between Obama and McCain, it was an oft-repeated talking point that Barack Obama was nothing more than “an empty suit”.
It now seems obvious that there is only one empty suit in this race – and not only does the suit fit badly, it was either paid for by a lobbyist, the wearer’s wealthy wife, or the laziest speech-writer in history.
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