Posted on 10/29/2008 10:42:57 PM PDT by RobinMasters
For what it's worth, I don't think the night worked for him. The last time anyone did this — Ross Perot — it was so weird a world unto itself (strange-looking guy with pie charts) that, beached between Cybill and Murphy Brown (or whatever it was back then), it had a kind of integrity and distinctiveness. This time round, The O Show followed by the Phillies followed by Jon Stewart cumulatively undermined the candidate.
For a start, the show itself was slick only in a drearily generic way. The waving wheat and music made it seem like a standard campaign commercial, only longer — "It's Morning, Noon And Night In America," which is a big enough problem thanks to the media's Obama cultists without the candidate himself piling on. As for the King Barack Meets [Insert Name Of Downtrodden Subject Here] stuff, aside from the fact that I don't recognize the hellhole this country apparently is, there's something faintly ridiculous in doing it in the middle of the Phillies winning the World Series. Maybe on Super Bowl Sunday, instead of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunctioning, Obama could come out and interview people about how our entire rotten society is malfunctioning. And then The Daily Show kibbitzing stepped all over the infomercial even more.
This is an amazing race. The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus. The economy is supposedly on the brink of global Armageddon. McCain has only $80 million to spend, while Obama's burning through $600 mil as fast as he can, and he doesn't really need to spend a dime given the wall-to-wall media adoration. And tonight Chris Matthews' doctors announced that his leg tingle has metastasized leaving his entire body like a vibrating cellphone whose ringtone is locked on "I'm In Love, I'm In Love, I'm In Love, I'm In Love, I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy".
And yet an old cranky broke loser is within two or three points of the King of the World. Strange.
Ooooh, that second to last sentence!!!!! I’m gonna go to bed with a big smile on my face, now. I love you, Mr. Steyn!
Remember what Truman Capote said, Barack:
“There are certain shades of limelight that can ruin a girl’s complexion...the stantions will be up, all over town.”
Steyn bump
That is just too cool, but I’m afraid I’m gonna have bad Presidential devil-morphing dreams now.
I would have bet money this thing was going to have a big annoucement in it. Big build up to nothing.
Bump!
That’s creepy. Cool, but creepy!
I didn’t watch it, but saw some clips of it. Anyone else notice it didn’t say “Obama FOR President”, instead it was “Obama. President.” The smugness never ends!
Thanks for the low down. I just couldn’t stomach watching him.
"That was some creepy stuff!"
; )
Attention Deficit, but nobody noticed because they were all out enjoying burning carbon while gas prices were low
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