[besson3c]

It's amazing accounting for all of the attacks that have occurred over this long, long, long election season. It is also interesting to compare the list of attacks coming from both sides:

McCain campaign and surrogates/prominent supporters:

- Obama is inexperienced (this is a theme he has used throughout that has had some success)

- Obama is an empty suit (this accusation seems to have ceased now that people have seen that Obama is pretty comfortable with his political material, comfortable with debating, etc.)

- Jeramiah Wright (what happened to this one?)

- Obama is elitist (ditto?)

- "Clinging to guns and religion" (ditto?)

- MIchelle Obama "proud for the first time to be an American" (ditto?)

- Ayers

- ACORN

- secret Muslim connections

- race card

- Obama is socialist/Joe the Plumber

etc.


Obama campaign and surrogates/prominent supporters:

- McCain is just like Bush and amounts to more of the same

- McCain is old

- McCain may not be healthy

- Palin is a scary presidential replacement/demonstrates McCain's poor judgement, etc.

- Keating Five

- McCain saying that the fundamentals of the economy are strong

etc.


I'm sure that we can expand both lists far more, but it sure seems like the McCain list is much longer. How short are people's memories to think that months ago people were arguing with passion and great vitriol that Wright represented why Obama shouldn't be president, that he was going to destroy his chances, etc. Now it's the newest flavor of the week Joe the Plumber. Next week it will be something else...

Where do old attacks go to die? How come nobody is talking about the old attacks anymore that were so vitally important to all of us months ago? I guess their importance is connected to their effectiveness in terms of scoring political points with the polls?

Aren't you guys growing numb? It makes it really hard for me to take accusations of voter fraud seriously and language such as "unprecedented" to heart, because I'm sure Wright and all of the other gaffes were "unprecedented" too. At the end of all of this, we are still left with all of the same real problems we had going into this, and nobody cares about Wright anymore. So, why does the general public allow the media and the campaign machines to rev them up over and over and over and over again with these silly, complete non-issues? Don't people learn?

[ort888]

It's because any rational minded person has already made up their mind.

Both candidates are now fighting for the yahoos who are undecided. Well, that and trying to get lazy people into the election booth on the 4th.

The elections in this country are decided by how many lazy people you can get out and by the 5% of the population that decided who to vote for based on the most ridiculous of reasons. Good times.

[Paco500]

By the same token, couldn't we make a equally long list of past requests by Besson3c for us all to drop the grandstanding and engage in thoughtful dialogue?

[besson3c]

I'm used to nobody listening to me though. You guys will all recognize my brilliance someday, I'm just ahead of my time!

[besson3c]

So, do you guys think that we'll see some recycling of older gaffes and fake fires over the next two weeks, or will we see some newer, original material?

[Paco500]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

So, do you guys think that we'll see some recycling of older gaffes and fake fires over the next two weeks, or will we see some newer, original material?

From the Democrats, I believe we will see a lot of "The fundamentals of our economy are strong" along with a constant McCain=Bush 2.0 message.

From the Republicans I think we'll see both barrels of everything.

[finboy]

Originally Posted by Paco500 

From the Democrats, I believe we will see a lot of "The fundamentals of our economy are strong" along with a constant McCain=Bush 2.0 message.

From the Republicans I think we'll see both barrels of everything.

I think a lot of it is just plain fatigue. Obama is STILL an empty suit, for instance, but I can't see any of the folks who want to vote for him responding to that. (In some cases, it may be that they don't know what that means. They'll find out, I guess.)

The arguments are still there on both sides, but hurling them back and forth tends to get nowhere, so why bother.

At least we haven't seen too many of those astroturfing posters this time.