Notes On The Candidates

[poliphilo]

They say old soldiers make peace-loving politicians because they know first-hand how horrible war is, but this doesn't seem to apply to McCain, who has already- and he's not even in the White House yet- threatened to go to war with Russia.  Maybe this is because his military service involved flying above battlefields, not slogging accross them.

I'll say this for Palin: she hasn't pulled strings or called in favours to keep her son out of her holy war.

As for Obama, he's supposed to be hugely intelligent, right? So why in the world did he make that crack about the pig and the lipstick when he- or his minders- should have known that the GOP attack dogs would be all over it? The more I see and hear of him, the flimsier he seems to be.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

They're going to clobber him for that "McCain doesn't get the internet" ad, too. There were articles in the Boston Globe and in Forbes way back in 2000 about McCain's savvy use of the internet.

True, McCain doesn't keyboard his own emails. According to an article in Forbes, back in 2000, he is in pain if he tries to type (another of his lasting souvenirs from his five-plus years as a prisoner of war), so he and his wife do his emails together. He reads them, then dictates his replies -- Cindy is apparently a ferocious keyboarder. He stays current on sites and blogs that are key to him, and he did well with pioneering online events such as an online town meeting back in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be nice if the two camps were to debate policy for a change.