According to the new Reuters poll, John McCain is beating Barack Obama by five percentage points. Who would have predicted that? Turns out that the McCain camp was smart to go after Obama's celebrity image. Suddenly, Obama's decision to make his convention acceptance speech in a stadium doesn't look so good, inasmuch as it reinforces the idea that he's got a big head.
Obama's going to name his running mate this week. Who should it be? There's no obvious choice. Sen. Joe Biden looks good on paper, as he would go far to bolster Obama's credentials on foreign policy, and he's certainly got the experience. Given the increasing complications on the foreign policy front, I'd feel better having someone like Biden that close to President Obama. But he's also a blowhard who is not likely to do much for the ticket at the ballot box. If I were Obama, I'd go with Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who's smart and popular and who looks like a regular guy. It's that Jimmy Hoffa haircut. What's your take?
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Why is McCain leading? Why, Rod explained it yesterday on the front page of this blog:
"You'd think we Americans would have learned to be more skeptical of would-be presidents willing to rush to war, given events of the past five years or so. You would be wrong."
To all of you who still want to whine and complain about the Surge and how things have finally turned the corner - the US did what was necessary. Do you remember what Patton said when he wanted to continue his army's progress against the Soviets? He said that we are going to have to fight them sooner or later. Well the Cold War lasted over 40 years. And cost us thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Have any of you investigated the lives of Saddam;s two sons? Saddam was not the threat to the US, his two sons were. And they had to be taken out sooner or later. The Iraq war was a preemptive war. They DID have WMD's and they DID use them against their own populace and the ground war on terrorism IS being fought on forein soil since 9/11. And God willing the US will have a stable ally besides Israel in the Middle East. 9/11 cost the US more than 4,000 lives and trillions of dollars. You guys are a bunch of Neville Chamberlains. Just quit whining and support your servicemen in their valient line of duty.
I really love it when folks get hysterical and say that people's kids are going to be drafted. I'll believe that when they distribute suicide pills and Hara Kiri knives to the folks in Congress because if they vote that none of them will be back.
charles cosimano,
Just today McCain hints at draft re-instatement!
MSNBC is reporting (NBC Political Director Chuck Todd confirms) that an audience member at a McCain town hall in Las Cruces, N.M. said that they'd have to reinstate the draft to get bin Laden. McCain said that he didn't disagree with that.
Hrm, my post was held and still hasn't shown up. As it was tryig to point out, McCain and Obama are only close if you pretend 'nationwide polling data' is a logical way to guess who's going to win the election.
It obviously isn't. People need to look at 270towin.com. (Not linking because I suspect that's what made my post get held.)
The race isn't really that close, although it's actually about 15 percent closer than when I made my original post. The media just wants to pretend it is close.
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