John McCain: The Mount Vesuvius of Mud

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/17738

John McCain: The Mount Vesuvius of Mud
by Brent Budowsky | October 7, 2008



Equity markets collapse. Credit markets are strangled. Economic pain skyrockets. Global markets shake. And John McCain campaigns on Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, pit bulls with lipstick, slanders, smears, falsehoods, lies and fear -- a Mount Vesuvius of mud that will drag Republicans to defeat.

Americans endure a crisis of economic pain while McCain suffers a crisis of his own identity. The McCain who ran in 2000 would be scandalized by the McCain who runs in 2008. And McCain and Sarah Palin hit bottom with the last refuge of dying campaigns, suggesting Obama is not a real American, questioning his patriotism, with warm-up acts invoking his middle name when what voters want to hear is how the candidates can make their lives better and more secure.

Voters need raincoats and boots as John McCain closes his failed campaign dishing dirt in political panic. McCain's staff tells reporters he cannot discuss the economy because he will lose. Palin's staff tells her what newspapers she reads in the morning. Rather than offering intelligent solutions to an economy in crisis, McCain and Palin dump sludge on voters who hunger for leadership and despise the Bush-like politics that is the new McCain brand.

John McCain and Sarah Palin have reached a level of sickness and slander in a campaign that has nothing to say to voters about the only real issue in the election. It is amazing and astonishing that McCain is now reduced to literally nothing but slander, character assassination and lies even as his polls continue to sink.

How can anyone serve government during three decades and admit he does not know much about the economy?

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Barack Obama will win because faced with this deluge of dirt, he stands tall as an oak with his dignity, cool in a crisis, calm in a storm, a serious man for serious times, a thoughtful man with major ideas to make our economy stronger, an idealist without illusions, a leader to fix the problems, the real voice for authentic change who will transcend this Vesuvius of mud that is the last desperate gasp of the George Bush years.

[tblue]

1. If Obama can make even a tiny dent in Dishonest John's armor of International policy

McC is toast. Burnt toast. There will be absolutely nothing left of the man.