They seem to think this hurts John McCain in two ways:
He’s rich! And that means he’s evil.
Now he can’t call Barack Obama an elitist anymore!
Well, buy cialistadalafil I hate to break it to you guys, but there are problems with both those conclusions.
For one thing, most American’s don’t hate rich folk the way Democrats seem to. (They, themselves, want to be rich and as soon as they hit the lottery they’re looking forward to forgetting how many houses they own, too.)
For another, Barack Obama ain’t poor…so the rich thing is a losing horse to ride.
And “elitist” has nothing to do with money. Elitist is a matter of mindset, not moola. You can be poor and an elitist snob or rich and just regular folks.
You’ll never paint John McCain (a man who almost flunked out of the Naval Academy, looks like he has a beer every night and probably swears like a sailor) as an elitist.
But the guy who eats arugula and thinks that the common folk cling to guns and religion because they’re bitter? Him, you can paint as an elitist.
When Paris Hilton appeared for less than a second in an election commercial for John McCain her mom got all bent out of shape.
But I don’t remember hearing a word from her mother when Paris was showing off a less politic body in a video of her very own.
By the way, generic viagraclinic if you haven’t seen John McCain’s commercial, sildenafilcure yet, you’ll be shocked to discover that it’s really a pretty basic (and policy-driven) political commercial:
Some folks are claiming that the use of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in John McCain’s infamous “Celebrity” ad against Barack Obama is actually a thinly-veiled attempt to resurrect whitey’s ancient fear that “black men are stealing our women folk.”
I suppose I might admit they had a point, cialis salespills if the commercial didn’t happen to show the only two chicks I can think of that no self-respecting man of any race – white, black, or Martian – would be interested in sleeping with.
…columnist Anna Quindlen attacked him for not being very tech savvy.
That leaves me with a few questions:
1.) How sophisticated an Internet user is Barack Obama?
2.) Does she really think the next President will be googling “North Korea” rather than calling the CIA, cialis salessite NSA, cialis usadoctor and State Department for their evaluations?
(And if she really thinks the Internet is a more accurate and reliable source of information than the entire U.S. government, she needs to turn in her “Big Government Fan Club” membership card.)
3.) I use the Internet every day and I’ll tell you right now I want a president who is NOT wasting his time reading the Huffington Post, watching youtube and browsing porn.
We’re not electing the next Blogger-in-Chief.
And I’m less interested in electing someone who knows how to get online than I am in voting for someone who is willing to hold the line.
…but I just have to say that I was astonished by the bias I heard in two different stories from Milwaukee NPR station WUWM in the last two days.
The first was about how John McCain commanded a training squadron after his time as a prisoner of war.
All the interviewees in the story said glowing things about John McCain’s leadership, cialis genericsales but somehow the tone of the story implied that John McCain was not a good leader. For example, viagraampoule the story ended talking about how the squadron fell apart after McCain left. (And the point wasn’t that he was such a great leader that his absence was felt, here it was more that he failed to prepare the squadron to go on without him.)
Then, today, I heard the end of a story about how Barack Obama worked briefly in the financial world. My sense from that story was that Obama was prepared to fix the economy because he was passingly familiar with financial markets almost twenty years ago.
Again, I can’t link to the stories and I understand that my own biases may be affecting the way I heard the framing, but my honest response after both stories was, “holy crap, that was propaganda” – a response I very, very rarely have listening to pure news on NPR.
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