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- Robin Aronson
- I write. I live in New York City. I have a husband and children. I worry, but I have fun worrying.
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- The New Year
- But What Does It Mean Mr. Brooks?
- Scar Jo, The Marriage
- Me, Losing It: Exhibit A
- Away for the Weekend
- I Mean Come On!
- Wishing
- The McCain Campaign
- Campaign Suspended
- It's the Economy.....
- The Sequestered Candidate
- Traffic
- Chris Rock on Letterman
- Books for Barack
- On Politics
- Too Scared to Read
- Water, Water in my Yard, if Only I Had a Yard!
- Things I Never Thought I'd Say
- The Perfect Tuna Melt
- David Foster Wallace
- Stating the Obvious
- I'm Sorry I Can't Spell
- Why I Shouldn't Be Blogging
- Eight Minutes from Jon Stewart's World
- I'm Not Getting the Boots
- This is Rich, or something.....
- It's in the Boot
- To Amnio or Not
- The Experience Question
- How I Feel About Food
- Say Yes to the Dress
- But This Is News
- Following Obama
- Mother on Fire, or Whose School is this Anyway
- 20 Questions for Sarah Palin
- Glimpsing the Car with the Dream
- Not Quite Moving On: The Bridge to Nowhere
- Moving On
- Who ARE These People?
- Sleep Strike
- Go, Joe!
- In Other News
- Set Pieces
- Target Practice
- I Choose Samantha Bee!
- The Convention Ends
- The XX Factor
- Thank you, Maureen
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- The Convention
- No Chef Here: It's the Palin Show!
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4 comments:
I don't think the issues will win this, I think it's about personality,and character and image. But not issues. No one seems to care about issues. I say, back away from the issues and focus on why Obama is a better and more moral, honest and inspiring candidate. It's a sad state of affairs but I think a major change in his campaign is the only thing that will save us from a grizzly fate.
There's a lot of truth in what you say -- character and personality will drive a lot of what happens on Nov 1. But for me, personally, I'd like to not think about the person that is Palin and focus more on the problem of her policies and whatever McCain's might be (and who can tell anymore) and focus on the policies and potential leadership that Obama presents and embodies (respectively). His campaign is changing ("McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election") Besides, in election days, Nov 1 is a long way off -- like it's 7 billion news cycle. And I think that between McCain's trip to The View and Pailn's reportedly rote performance with Charlie Gibson (in which she sounded an awful lot like a lady version of Bush) something started to shift yesterday. That McCain is lying daily won't bother some people, but those people probably weren't the persuadable voters anyway. In any case, think no one can say what really wins an election. Some strange alchemy, for sure, but we can all urge the winds to blow blue when Nov 1 rolls around.
John McCain's campaign manager famously said that this election is not about the issues. I hate to fight dirty, but I think Obama needs to pull a "Daisy Ad" and start driving home the fact that should McCain not finish his term, Palin will be president.
But this has got to be about McCain and not Palin, because the fact that Palin could finish McCain's term would get a lot of the Republican base out. The bottom line is McCain says he's a maverick, but he's embraced everything that's gone wrong in government in the last eight years -- aka Bush, and while I agree to some degree that Obama can't only talk about the issues, he has to talk about the economy and the failure of Republican policies that McCain has embraced.
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