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viktor_haagEvery time I flipped past CNN on the weekend, I was treated to an image of
• Barack Obama looking pressed and confident, and perhaps just a wee bit smug
• John McCain and his pie-eating grin-on-cue, grimly worrying the corpse of Joe the Plumber and the "spreading the wealth around" trope (presumably, an invocation of the dreaded Red Menace?)
• Tired but resolved CNN pasteboard pundits offering meaningless commentary on above
While I understand McCain's tactic of leathering away at redistribution of wealth, do none of his supporters (or, indeed, his strategists and writers) recognize the irony behind this stance given (a) his support for the bailout package, and (b) his chicken-in-nearly-every-pot proposal to buy up the nation's questionable mortgage paper?
No wonder that grin seems so mechanical and forced, my friends; no wonder.
• Barack Obama looking pressed and confident, and perhaps just a wee bit smug
• John McCain and his pie-eating grin-on-cue, grimly worrying the corpse of Joe the Plumber and the "spreading the wealth around" trope (presumably, an invocation of the dreaded Red Menace?)
• Tired but resolved CNN pasteboard pundits offering meaningless commentary on above
While I understand McCain's tactic of leathering away at redistribution of wealth, do none of his supporters (or, indeed, his strategists and writers) recognize the irony behind this stance given (a) his support for the bailout package, and (b) his chicken-in-nearly-every-pot proposal to buy up the nation's questionable mortgage paper?
No wonder that grin seems so mechanical and forced, my friends; no wonder.
