They think we're stupid? Yeah, pretty much.

[batskeets]

Preach it, Mr. O.:

I had the unfortunate luck of being subjected to Fox "News" while I was in the gym yesterday--with closed captioning, so at least I didn't have to *hear* it--and when I wasn't throwing up in my mouth a little, I couldn't help but notice the McCain campaign's attempts (with plenty of help from Fox) to re-brand him as the maverick candidate, the guy who's going to bring... (wait for it) ...CHANGE to Washington!

Now, that's funny. Obama has been running on a Change platform since the beginning of the primaries... and now McCain is suddenly talking about Change, too? Like, wow, what a great idea! Too bad you're about 9 months late to the party!

And Palin? Pretty much a sideshow and a smokescreen, an attempt to distract the dimwitted voter from actually pausing long enough to read between the lines. She clearly wasn't chosen for her qualifications, unless you count the fact that she has girl parts. She has brought the following to this campaign:
1) OMG it's a lady VP!
2) OMG she has a pregnant teenage daughter!
3) OMG her "executive experience" is running a tiny town in Alaska!

...and so forth. Notice how there are no actual Issues being discussed. Granted, talk about The Issues is hard enough to find under normal circumstances, but she's not exactly raising the level of political discourse.

Are people actually buying what they're suddenly selling? Is the average voter's memory really that short? It's like Obama said: they must think we're stupid. Thing is, people like myself, or the people most likely to be reading this, are smart enough to notice, but is the rest of America?

I'm a little afraid to find out.

P.S. New icon. He's as old, bald, and crotchety as McCain, but it least Col. Tigh has a cool eyepatch. ;p

Comments

[aaron.livejournal.com]

We all like to say that we're smart enough to notice, to "get it", but I recall hearing on an NPR show (back in Utah) that studies suggest that the vast majority of people feel that way. All of us feel like we're the smart ones and that we see through the smoke and mirrors while the rest of the country is hapless and foolhardy. These studies also suggest that everyone actually falls for a large amount of the campaign junk, even though we say "not me!"

I think we all see it, and we all say "I can't believe he's pulling that crap!", but then election day comes and maybe we say "well, this will make certain there's a voice for teenage pregnancy/women in the white house" or "finally, a voice for black people in the white house", or some other such... Personally I don't really like either candidate, and I don't know which way I'm going to vote come November.

I expect Obama to win. I just don't think McCain has the momentum, but whoever wins, the other side will complain about how the majority of the voting populace is dumb, deaf, and blind, and how obvious it is to any thinking individual that the wrong candidate was chosen. It's all politics, and there's no way around it.

Sad face

[bad-juice.livejournal.com]

Recent polls, post-Palin, show McCain up 50-46 nationally.

[xplo-eristotle.livejournal.com]

We are stupid. We re-elected Bush, yeah?

By "we" I mean America, of course. I didn't vote for him. (Didn't vote for anyone that year; I was living in Arizona.) But a lot of people obviously did, at a time when everyone else thought it was impossible for them not to know better. If McCain can get those same people to vote for him, Obama's gonna have a rough time.