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captainsblogSorry. Not buyin' it.
It sounds noble enough, bipartisan enough. It's not even unprecedented. Buffalo's own two-time onetime President, Grover Cleveland, chose not to campaign in 1892 against incumbent Benjamin Harrison when the latter effectively suspended his own campaign due to his wife's serious illness. "If my opponent chooses not to campaign, I will choose likewise," Cleveland declared.
That resulted in perhaps the dullest Presidential campaign in US history- and also resulted in the Democrat kicking the Republican's ass for his delayed second term.
This whole "focus on the economy" thing just has an eau de Rove stink to it. Maybe it has more to do with this week's polling numbers, showing Obama out to a 9-point nationwide lead over McWrinkly and citing the financial crisis as the source of the old boy's trouble. What better way to recapture that ground than by looking all presidential and bipartisan (after months of pandering to the nutjob base with the likes of President-Elect Palin)?
The timing's also suspicious. The Republican administration has been orchestrating these bailouts and buyouts and demands for quick action (although rich-guy stuff like CEO compensation is a "separate, and complex issue" that needs to be studied more), just in time to hit a fever pitch riiiiight before McCain's first debate. This after keeping him (and President-Elect Palin) away from the press for most of the past six weeks; just yesterday, they let McSame out of his cage yesterday to meet the press for the first time since July, and he spent most of the time, according to one foreign review, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
Don't buy it, America. Don't buy it, Obama. You better believe the Swiftboat Class of '08 won't be suspending their efforts. This is just a lot of smoke and a really old mirror. And who needs a friend of the Keating Five to help fix the economy, anyway?
It sounds noble enough, bipartisan enough. It's not even unprecedented. Buffalo's own two-time onetime President, Grover Cleveland, chose not to campaign in 1892 against incumbent Benjamin Harrison when the latter effectively suspended his own campaign due to his wife's serious illness. "If my opponent chooses not to campaign, I will choose likewise," Cleveland declared.
That resulted in perhaps the dullest Presidential campaign in US history- and also resulted in the Democrat kicking the Republican's ass for his delayed second term.
This whole "focus on the economy" thing just has an eau de Rove stink to it. Maybe it has more to do with this week's polling numbers, showing Obama out to a 9-point nationwide lead over McWrinkly and citing the financial crisis as the source of the old boy's trouble. What better way to recapture that ground than by looking all presidential and bipartisan (after months of pandering to the nutjob base with the likes of President-Elect Palin)?
The timing's also suspicious. The Republican administration has been orchestrating these bailouts and buyouts and demands for quick action (although rich-guy stuff like CEO compensation is a "separate, and complex issue" that needs to be studied more), just in time to hit a fever pitch riiiiight before McCain's first debate. This after keeping him (and President-Elect Palin) away from the press for most of the past six weeks; just yesterday, they let McSame out of his cage yesterday to meet the press for the first time since July, and he spent most of the time, according to one foreign review, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
Don't buy it, America. Don't buy it, Obama. You better believe the Swiftboat Class of '08 won't be suspending their efforts. This is just a lot of smoke and a really old mirror. And who needs a friend of the Keating Five to help fix the economy, anyway?
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Date: 2008-09-25 09:47 pm (UTC)