The Really: Is John McCain really just an angry old man? Is Sarah Palin just a pit-bully?
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos a visibly perturbed George Will (the Cubs lost all three of their playoff games and will once again NOT win the World Series) stated that "America does not elect angry men as leaders." No friend of the pick of Sarah Palin as VP, Will does hold an honored place in the pantheon of conservative commentators so when he says "angry" will not play and pit-bullyness will not win, one has to take it to heart.
The smeary, angry and super-neg week that is now upon us got off to a good start when Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around" with Weatherman bomber boy Bill Ayers even though he has been rehabilitated and even forgiven by the son of Richard Daley, the current Mayor for Life of Chicago: Dickie Daley.
Ian Speigelman at Gawker has a nice piece on the sophisticated neg McCain is capable of which is both angry and amusing.
Ian Speigelman at Gawker has a nice piece on the sophisticated neg McCain is capable of which is both angry and amusing.
But rather than try to point out the how badly the "Ayers" connection will not hunt in this race, it is instructive that the last time America suffered through a long term economic crisis (and this one looks to have legs) it was the calm reassurance from the fireside chat of FDR that got America through, and resembles the current calm, even Presidential demeanor of Barack Obama.
Maybe the McCain campaign has to go super-neg (even against his own desire not to engage in this kind of politics) but is there any other choice at this point?
Update: Video report on McCain's temper.
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