Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Knowing Nothing in Life But to Be Legit
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
8:30 AM
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Today's NY Times features a couple of op-eds I found of interest ...
Neil Gabler writes about John McCain and the media ...
... Mr. McCain’s joviality and seeming honesty with the press in 2000 constituted a very effective scheme indeed, until it came time to woo actual Republican voters. As Time’s Jay Carney once put it, “You get the sense you’re being manipulated by candor, rather than manipulated by subterfuge and deception, but it is a strategy.” If McCain is seducing the media with candor and authenticity, one wonders why nobody before him has been able to execute this strategy so effectively ...
More ...
As Ryan Lizza described it last month in The New Yorker, a typical campaign day has Mr. McCain rumbling from one stop to another on his bus, the Straight Talk Express, sitting in the rear on a horseshoe-shaped leather couch surrounded by reporters and talking “until the room is filled with the awkward silence of journalists with no more questions.” Having ridden aboard the Straight Talk Express with McCain, this account rings very true.
Meanwhile, Maureen Dowd notes that the Clintons have begun floating the idea of Hillary as VP, and compares their message to Hollywood:
It’s one of my favorite movie formulas, driving the dynamics in such classics as “A Few Good Men,” “The Big Easy” and “Guys and Dolls”: Charming, glib guy spars and quarrels with no-nonsense, driven girl, until they team up in the last reel. He spices up her life, and she stiffens his spine. And soon they hear the pitter-patter of little superdelegate feet, who are thrilled not to be pulled in two directions anymore.
Note: If Obama does bring her into his campaign, I only ask that he doesn't utter the words, "you complete me" ...
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The 2d worst scenario is Hillary as president, Bill as co-president and Barry as vice president in waiting.
But the worst scenario is Barry as president, Bill as co-president and Hillary as VP. All the secretaries and asst under secretaries of departments would have to be filled with Democrats, most of whom previously worked for Bill.
Every time there was a decision to be made, they would go to which ever of the top-3 they thought would have the most sympathetic ear. The food fight of 2008 is nothing compared to the chaos we'd see in 2009-2010. |
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More like reporters lacking the guts to ask the tough questions McCain does not want to answer.
1. When will you disavow Juan Hernandez and his "Mexico First" agenda?
2. What comes after "secure the border first?"
3. Why are conservatives the only ones you attack, while being congenial to "your friends" across the aisle?
4. Do you expect illegal aliens to elect you? |
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How could Hillary be on Obama's ticket if she's on record saying he's not ready to be President ?
We would just run TV ads of her saying, "He's not ready to be President."
As far as films go, I think "Thelma & Barack" would drive the car right off the cliff.
Can't wait to see that one.
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