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Broadcast Network News Coverage | 22 comments (22 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

McCain's age (4.00 / 3)

I got the email about how evil Obama was for saying "lost his bearings". I had to laugh because that's just as nutso as those people who accused him of being sexist when he said "periodically". Dumbasses.

I sent an email to the campaign:

I'm one of the people who likes to tell everyone I meet that your candidate, John McCain, is older than dirt's great-granddad; that John McCain makes the pyramids look like the new mall that just opened last week, that he can look at the globe and say, "I remember when this was all Ice Age as far as the eye could see.". Considering all the "old" jokes regarding John McCain, one would expect seasoned campaign veterans to not draw attention to the extreme age (and innate liability) of their candidate.
Imagine my surprise when I received your email claiming that the nautical or directional term Sen. Obama used was being twisted by your campaign, making it appear that you are "playing the age card". It was assumed by many people that Sen. Obama was mocking the so-called Straight Talk Express, not McCain's mental abilities.
Does this mean we can expect more pointless distractions when Sen. Obama uses the things"? Please let me know so that I can immediately tune out anything coming from your campaign. As an engaged voter, I'm more interested in hearing what you can candidate will do is President, not this childish twisting of words. I get enough of that from my 5 year old.

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 12:34:19 AM EST
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Oops (none / 0)

A few sentences got deleted. The first sentence in the last paragraph should read:

Does this mean we can expect more pointless distractions when Sen. Obama uses the terms, "that was the old ways of Washington" or "the same old way of doing things"?

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 12:38:14 AM EST
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Re: McCain's age (none / 0)

Ha, that's most excellent. Not like you were going to pay much attention to what he had to say anyway, I'll bet.

Honestly, there are real issues facing this country, everything from race to oil to Iraq, and instead of talking about those we get death by thesaurus?

I'm doing a panel on Blogs and the Media at VCon, Oct 4, Vancouver BC

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 12:55:48 AM EST
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Re: McCain's age (none / 0)

What I find curious is that in Clintonland, "periodically" is a vile misogynist oath (even though at sixty Clinton can't be menstruating) and yet they feel free to throw around misogynist language and then attribute it to others. I was accused of being the type who would "bitch slap" someone for asking for a cup of black coffee (I'm not sure I understood what the poster meant) because I said that I was an old, white working-class male and I had no problem voting for Obama.

I know the concept of the oppressed using derogatory terms as an act of rebellion against the oppressors and as a term of self-definition and rebellious pride, but there seems to be an inflation in the Clinton camp. Anything that can possibly be construed as negative to women, which would include terms never before used as gender-specific insults, are off-limits to non-Hillary supporters, but can be directed at anyone else.

I guess that we will witness a repetition with McCain now.

by Bob In Pacifica on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 10:23:09 AM EST
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Re: McCain's age (none / 0)

The Clinton Camp is identical to the Bush (Dubya) camp in this way: they only communicate for the purpose of moving the polls. Any correltaion between their words and objective reality are incidental, conveniently supporting the point that they're trying to implant into the national consciousness. As for me, whenever I encounter some form of communication from the Clinton or Bush worlds I immediately run it through the Charlie Brown filter, such that their words appear to me as nothing more than the blather that came from off-screen adults in the Charlie Brown cartoons.

Pay no attention to those people - when they lie they speak their native language...

The Underground Railroad

by Oscar In Louisville on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 04:32:48 PM EST
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