Amazing presidential campaign, isn’t it? What happened to the issues?
Am I the only one — of course I’m not! — who thinks both the McCain and Obama campaigns have veered off the issues and started flinging mud, trying to deal political “death by innuendo” blows at each other?
To hear McCain’s bunch, especially the lovely pitbull-with-lipstick Sarah Palin, Obama lives somewhere near the deepest fire pits in Hades — after all, he “pals around” with known domestic terrorists, doesn’t he? (Insert your own Big GROAN here!!) And, in what I think was somewhat out of character for most of Obama’s campaign to the present, Obama fired back some shots at McCain and his “Keating Five” days.
For the record: Obama was 8 or 9 (I’m not sure which) years old when his “friend” the domestic terrorist (to be honest, I don’t even recall his name) was active in the 1960s radical group, Weather Underground. From what I’ve read, even the legitimate news organizations that have investigated the whole matter conclude there is no “friendship” or “palling around” as our chuckle-faced Alaskan governor puts it. On the other side, and I heard this explained in some detail this morning on CNN, McCain was cleared of any formal ethical and legal misdeeds by the Senate as one of the Keating Five — BUT (and I see this as a very BIG but), McCain demonstrably DID delay regulations and hold private meetings with regulators to buy time for his buddy Charles Keating at the time the S&L fiasco Keating was responsible for defrauded and lost MILLIONS of dollars for those common people McCain’s always harping about.
Ah, phooey! Makes me sound like a bad 1950s cartoon character, I know. But “phooey” is the only word that comes to mind for both campaigns.
Here’s a clue, Senators, THE NATION’S JUST ABOUT FINANCIALLY BANKRUPT. Quit taking potshots at each other and deal with the issues. Especially YOU, John McCain and Sarah Palin. Quit slinging mud and twisting your lies and start facing up to the issues, please.