Pa-the-tic

Oh boy – I have to be straight up and point out that the recent week on FactCheck shows the Obama campaign floating some pretty decent whoppers and spin jobs of it’s own in their ads. Argh! Prior to that, it had been almost a 75/25 split with McCain spinning the biggest whoppers in his ads. Now Obama is fighting smear for smear. Ick. Of course this does not change my vote, my political stances are too set and I am supporting the party more than the person and I am well aware of his shortcomings.

OTOH, prior to last week, many Democrats were pushing the Obama camp to go negative and hit back more harshly. There is a habit for Democrats to be too ‘nice’. For sure Kerry was! But Obama did signal in his acceptance speech that he will not roll over. That he has more fight in him. And history has shown that the GOP wins when they fight dirty. It’s why they keep doing it, right? The voters respond. And THAT ‘my friends’ is what is really pathetic! Why do voters buy into this crap? Look at the polls. McCain’s best weeks not only were around the convention, but then he held that bounce when he was pushing the narrative around things like lipstick on pigs. That was the week full of attack ads and speeches from both Palin and McCain that were so inaccurate that just about *every* media outlet was talking about it. Of course, only a couple actually said “lies” but they came up with about every other possible synonym for the word! Again though, people buy it up to that point when the media exposes just how far these ads are from the truth. A lot of the time they don’t bother doing their own fact checking. Shoot, the McCain campaign even used a quote from Factcheck.org in one of it’s ads and then Factcheck had to fact check it!! Ok, my head hurts, but you get the drift.

This weekend my neighbor had some local conservative talk show on his car radio while he was doing an oil change and I heard the host go on about Obama not saying the pledge!! WTF??? You are STILL yapping about that?? And of course the callers pile on with the classic lines from one of the original much debunked emails from last year. Why? You mean you people still have not heard that those are unfounded lies and that you are being a total ignorant schmuck repeating that on air? Doubly pathetic. I mean, I get it – if you are a Republican you have many many policy reasons why you wont vote for Obama. Talk about that on your show! Highlight those philosophical differences on how to address the nation’s problems. Don’t talk about McCain’s age and lack of technological skills. Don’t talk about Obama’s patriotism and heritage. Talk about how they will handle this economic down turn. Or the war on terror. Nah..that’s all too boring isn’t it? Sooo much more fun to dig up every example of the 4 main candidates saying some variation of the phrase about lipstick and pigs. Pa-the-tic!

But…umm..you know..far be it from me not to get a few giggles from some of the nonsense:

Which candidate is the elitist one again? 🙂