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Friday, August 1. 2008

Welcome to August!

Summer is winding down to a close, all the college students are getting ready to get back to their studies and the beaches … sigh … will become nearly vacant in about 33 days. My friend Kimberlee will be heading back to Penn State University after a fun summer that included a trip to Las Vegas. Her first as an adult! What happened in Vegas ... stayed in Vegas? She ain’t talking.

This summer, what with having a real job and all, I haven’t been to the beach nearly enough this season. In fact, some of my friends who have come to enjoy my photos of beach-related scenery have bemoaned the relative scarcity of said pics. But that’s what happens when reality bites and we need to pony up in the real world and get a J.O.B. I just want to win the lottery so I never need to work again.

It is an election year though and that’s pretty exciting! Senator McCain, who claimed less than a year ago he would run a “respectful” campaign based on the issues … has employed the Karl Rove strategy: play dirty. In one of his latest campaign ads (Click Here) McCain compared Senator Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
 So, McCain slanders all three … and then we find out Paris Hilton’s parents gave the McCain campaign the maximum amount legally allowed. Saw that bit on The Daily Show last night! “Fuck you very much, Hilton Family!”

Obama, according to the ad, is a media star with lots of fans; “He’s the biggest celebrity in the world! But is he ready to lead?” the ad starts. The McCain campaign’s rationale for the ad: Obama is more interested in cultivating his status as an international celebrity than leading the free world.

The ad then goes on to lie about Obama’s policies, making the assertion that Obama wants to raise your taxes and import more oil from OPEC.

Obama, in a campaign speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, had the best response: “is that the best you can come up with?” Apparently so Senator. This kind of negativity suggests the McCain campaign is in serious trouble — already. And they know it. Click Here to watch.

McCain has flip-flopped on nearly every “promise” he’s made, every position he’s held, all in the effort to become president.

Twenty years ago when President Reagan’s second term was winding down and the 1988 campaign was in full swing, my thought was, “We couldn’t possibly have a worse president than Reagan.” Well, I owe the Reagan family an apology because we’ve had eight disastrous years of George W. Bush.

Now, before I say it couldn’t get worse than a George W. Bush Administration, the horror of a McCain Administration has to be considered. Every candidate, including Barack Obama, has the potential to be worse than the current monkey in the White House, but McCain has already shown that he has no honor, values or integrity.

This current McCain presidential campaign has put an ugly, open sore blemish on his career. McCain spent five years in the Hanoi Hilton when he could have been released early so you just want to admire the guy and give him extra consideration with your vote. But McCain’s current campaigning — along with the fact that he’s got one of the worst records for veteran-related issues — renders his military service irrelevant.

“But McCain is a veteran!” Yeah, well so is Hugh Hefner … wait a minute, wrong comparison. I’d vote for Hugh Hefner if he ran for president. Wesley Clark is right: being a veteran doesn’t automatically qualify someone to be president. It takes someone who can lead, who has hope and a vision for the future. So far, all McCain has done is mock those of us who have hope for the future and the one candidate in the race who has a vision for the future.

All McCain has shown us so far is that he can be another Karl Rove puppet. Let’s start calling him Pinocchio.

Posted by Tim Forkes in NEWS and POLITICS at 09:01 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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