Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, September 12, 2008

The McCain Campaign Strategy

McCain has surrendered any claim he ever had towards being an honorable man. As Paul Krugman points out in his column today, McCain's strategy is to lie about everything and to lie so fast and so furious that the Obama campaign can do little more than issue denials.

I was going to blog about "truthiness" and argue that McCain is saying things that he feels are true or he wishes were true without regard for whether or not they were really true. But Krugman is right, I fear. McCain's campaign has no regard for "truth" or "honor," it is a despicable, dishonest and truly disgusting campaign. McCain is a dishonorable man.

McCain has not only fully embraced the "Big Lie" technique of Joseph Goebbels, he is surrounding the big lie with the Karl Rove technique of thousands of little lies.

The real question is whether the voters are stupid enough to fall for it again. I am not terribly optimistic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm worried that in an effort to play to the middle, swing voter who claims to hate the negative campaign, the Obama campaign is going to take the high road to defeat.

People say they hate the negative campaigning because they think it's appropriate to dislike it.

I think it works because voters view that nice way of campaigning as weakness.