John McCain is surrounded. |
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| By: newtonusr Friday October 31, 2008 6:03 pm | |
Howard Fineman and then Jonathan Alter marvel at the Obama ground game, and the shocking and hilarious incompetence and disarray of McCain’s machine on Countdown, just now.
Howard Fineman
Jonathan Alter
Early voting, energetic ‘millions of volunteers,’ empty McCain offices in battleground states…
McCain made his bed, snarled at the country, reaped his due.
Steve Schmidt, you filthy Rove protégé – we can not thank you enough.
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thanks newt, hadn’t seen this.
I love the idea that Obama could win the election before the polls open on Tuesday .)
I cruelly await McCain’s concession speech. hee he-hee hee he
I see pieces like this and recoil – nothing worse that overconfidence. And truthfully, McCheese’s organization could actually be worse than described by Fineman and Alter, and he could still win.
I can’t help but wonder why they permit reporters in this close.
Who will enrich Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis next, do you suppose?
Seconded.
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I assume that McCain will Blame ACORN rather than his lack of ground level get out the vote efforts.
But will McCain trump up a few cases of voter fraud as an excuse to ask for recounts that his campaign cannot afford?
Or will McCain just try and get the entire election invalidated or just the vote in certain key states?
I assume the Justice Dept and the Supreme Court will back him Obama better have his lawyers ready in every state and be prepared to mobilize his supporters.
I expect a GOP mob to appear at voting places to stop recounts.
This is so far from over that I caution everyone against complacency.
Gibbon pointed out that after the Mongols destroyed Persia five centuries were not enough to repair the ravages of four years and that once active virtue is lost in a society it’s hard to recover, maybe even impossible without radical social change and the life of a nation may sometimes depend on one man.
I hardly think that man is Barack Obama no matter how much he’s been cloaked in the mantle of savior. I believe he is sincere but he, like others before him, is beholden to interests that are diametrically opposed to those of the average person.
FDR took this country out of the depression because he was staring at the collapse of capitalism in the face of widespread strikes and working class anger at the system. What did he get for his efforts? The hatred of people like the Bush clan for being a class traitor, a group of people who have been trying to destroy every change he made that benefited ordinary people.
The people funding Obama’s campaign, and I don’t mean the small donations from people like you and I, are counting on a modicum of change to keep the system afloat. They realize that a nation needs a middle class and an interregnum between this last disastrous regime and the next Republican fiasco (and there will be one and a Bush will be involved) is necessary for there to be plunder available to them.
The whole system needs to be changed and socialism for the little guy wouldn’t be so bad.
Incompetence and disarray in the republican party! Love it!
Sure, this thing is not in the bag for Obama.
But even the most pragmatic observers (those who are not “in-the-bag” McCain confederates) know that the plans for turning this thing around do not include electing John McCain and Sarah Palin to the Executive branch of the government.
That said, there is something to the credibility factor for campaigns. And the weaker and more enfeebled McCain’s campaign looks, well, the weaker and more enfeebled McCain’s campaign looks.
I like the fact that there’s national ridicule raining down on that ticket. I like that McCain is seen as just plain stupid and unstable and reckless and craven for selecting Palin. And I like that the nation has shaken itself enough to cause Palin’s negative numbers to soar (Pat Buchanan’s and others assertions that the economy laid McCain low are rubbish – Palin’s popularity began skidding independently of McCain’s personal economic weakness and his ties to Bush’s economic disaster, and McCain would not have needed her as a Hail-Mary pass in the first place if he was near the margins), and what was once a phenom is now an international laughingstock.
So while Fineman and Alter may not be the keenest, least-biased observers of the season, they are on the ground with the campaigns, they seem to be reporting what they observe, and TeamMcCain looks like a mad scramble instead of a focused electoral machine. Besides, it is funny as Hell.
Good for us.