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I do not know about you, but when I was a kid I thought people over 21 were ancient. People over 30 needed a rocking chair, and 40? Woah... people over 40? Woah. Old age.
Now that I am about 40, I find myself saying
"He's what, 95? That's still young!"
But enough about that. I find myself becoming more like my parents. I do not know if others have/had the same issue. It is nothing new. It is not just me I am sure. But it leads me to a question:
"Are the kids of today different when we were kids?"
Lots of people out there are referring to McCain as "McBush" to draw the obvious comparisons between McCain and Bush, but there's an even clearer set of comparisons to be drawn between McCain and Cheney - a pair of old men with creepy smiles willing to fake up whatever it takes to go to war with Iran. Dialing all the way back to the 2000 Vice Presidential debate, it is apparent that they both share the love of Joltin' Joe Lieberman.
But there are a few important distinctions:
* Cheney never dumped his wife for a young blonde heiress trophy wife (maybe that's why McCain's so obsessed with Paris Hilton, he's dreaming of trading up again).
* Cheney is five years younger than McCain, and has never been diagnosed with any kind of cancer (that the public knows of).
* Cheney, in his evil machinations, at least knows the difference between Al Queda and Iranian-backed extremists, knows there's no border between Iraq and Pakistan, and knows that Putin is not President of Germany (heck, Cheney probably considers Putin a role model for what he's done in Russia).
But those differences aside, we're facing McCheney, an older, creepier, more cancerous, more adulterous, and more confused version of Dick Cheney.
This idea came to me while I was thinking about how childish the McCain ad featuring Britney Spears and Paris Hilton was. So what follows is a nice ad in return.
Dear Senator McCain,
Just wanted to write you a brief letter to express my disappointment in the quality of the campaign discourse your operation has brought to the table in recent days. First, while Americans are living in a heightened state of economic anxiety, your top economic adviser tells us that we are whiners and that it is just a "mental recession." Then after your campaign dumps him after the MSM nightly news cycle on Friday, we learn from the financial squawk shows that he isn't really gone. Any day now, I am waiting for the refrain "the tax cuts worked, the tax cuts worked" from you.
But the deeper disappointment is in your language regarding Iraq. No serious-minded American of any political persuasion believes that a candidate for commander-in-chief wants or prefers to "lose a war" as you have suggested about Senator Obama. I think in an honest moment, you would have to concede how irresponsible such a comment is. But there haven't been too many of those lately.
"I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold," Mr. McCain said, referring to Roosevelt’s reputation for reform, environmentalism and tough foreign policy.
Not sure what he means by mold. Maybe he's thinking as President he'll be moldy? And by moldy I mean old. In fact there are almost as many years between McCain's birth and Obama's birth as there are between McCain's birth and Teddy's Presidency.
A significant slice of the electorate has qualms about McCain's age. The presumed Republican nominee will celebrate his 72nd birthday shortly before his party's convention. Polls show the age question isn't going away, despite the Arizona senator's efforts to deflect it with self-deprecating humor, or disprove it by keeping a grueling schedule.
"Sure, people live to be 90, but you are not as sharp," said Virginia Bailey, 73, a retired administrative assistant who lives near Schenectady, N.Y., and is a Republican. "I'm not as sharp as I was ten years ago, and I'm sure (McCain) isn't either _ even though he wouldn't admit it."...
The age issue is "clearly a potential problem" for McCain, said independent pollster Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. "There is a larger issue of whether people will come to see him as old apart from his age," Kohut added. "Will they think of him as having old ideas?"
Before you flame me read this trough to understand the title. I’m back after being gone for a week and a half. The Mrs. and I have been on summer vacation visiting folks back in Texas. We don’t get to see relatives very often because of work obligations and vacation time. It pulls on us at times. Since I had last seen my grandfather a year and a half ago he’s had two brushes with death. At the age of 85 he survived throat cancer, a remarkable feet for his age and at 86 he survived an emergency tracheotomy performed with no real pain relief since it was do it now or let him die. The need for the trach was a side effect of swelling from the cancer treatments months later.
For readers of my site, yes I'm back, and this article is cross-posted there.
In a 2006 issue of the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg wrote a terrific history of the "Democrat Party" moniker, but, to my knowledge, no one has yet traced the etymology of the Repug/Rethug label that we on Kos love so well. As I understand it, "Rethugs" and "Repugs" are terms that came into use at least partly as a response to the Right's substitution of the term "Democrat Party" for "Democratic Party."
The effectiveness of the "Democrat" tag comes in part from its insidiousness and subtlety.
Newsweek has a story in the July 7-14, 2008 issue which regards the tiny matter of a property tax bill. They put it best when they write:
When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying.
It's true. It's also hard to keep track of things when you're old, like John McCain, who apparently is getting too old to remember to pay his family's finances on time.
Now that Clinton is out of the picture, I've been impressed at the speed with which the media has retooled itself to lend legitimacy to McCain's campaign, so as to keep things interesting until November.
To the point, David Schuster and Chris Matthews just spouted off about how the dems "may be" subtly digging at McCain's age by using words like "bearings", "confused", "Oblivious" and "Out of touch" etc.
Now my question is, just how are we SUPPOSED to talk about a candidate who can't tell his ass from his elbow? Here are some suggestions to keep the media off our backs:
Joe says; How dare you, McCain was a POW and a Prisoner and he was beaten and, and, and he can't raise his arms and... Joe, Joe, stop froat-ing at the mouth, McCain's mouth is not broken and he has to show his mind and mouth, match is sharp and has a firm grip on the issues of the day.
The McCain people are in big fucking trouble. Every successful president in recent years has added a new evolutionary step to how to win elections. The Bushies built upon the Clinton constant war room and triangulating strategies by adding classical GOP dirty tricks to it. Reagan combined Nixon’s ugly politics with a genuinely likable personality. And now Obama’s completely revolutionizing everything, including the use of the internet as the greatest campaign tool since bribery.
But McCain? McCain’s campaign represents a HUGE step back in evolutionary terms, sending things back to the stone age. In everything from message discipline, message delivery, and outright dirty politics, the McCain people aren’t getting ANYTHING right. For example, any of the people in his campaign who didn’t realize that his recent ugly green background set him up for a HILARIOUS use of greenscreen technology deserves to be fired and sent back to the Eisenhower Administration where McCain first dug them up.
Just in time for Father's day, John McCain offers golf gear on his site...You have to love the irony of this. I mean, I know that Tiger Woods has done a lot to reform the image of the sport, but if you want to convey OLD MAN, what better way to do it than golf equipment. Not to mention ELITIST OLD MAN.
John McCain has called out Barack Obama, formalizing his earlier challenge of 10 town hall debates over the summer. The manner in which he has done so stinks to high heavens and presents many pitfalls and 'gotcha' moments to use against Obama.
I want to say that I have every confidence in our candidate's intelligence, and his team's professionalism, but I want to point out that there are several layers to what specifically McCain has proposed.
More than anything, it's really annoying that we can't focus on things like this, and instead have to attend to a crazy woman playing games with party unity and the VP slot.
Welcome to another one of my short over generalized blogs; but hey it's easy to digest right? Keep in mind this is about a certain type of old person (the Hillary supporter), not all old people. I come in contact with 20 to 60 different older (65 years old+) people a day. 60% percent women 40% men. Out of those 65% or some of them are Hillary supporters. This is based on their logic, and common sense.
OLDER Hillary supporters in far greater numbers than many of us will expect will end up voting for John Mccain. The reason for this is the same reason why they are Hillary supporters in the first place. "It's their person" meaning Hillary is a woman, and Mccain is old.
Old people generally don't like change, and Mccain is old. This is why many old voters will choose Mccain. I know i'm writing this diary like a 3rd grader, but I feel there are some people out there who some how think this part of the party is going to come together. So I needed to spell out for them the very very simple logic here...
