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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Picture of the Day





They really need an opponent.



(Advisers to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain watch as press secretary Brooke Buchanan tosses an orange down the aisle during a bowling game on board the campaign charter airplane, Friday, April 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer))

posted by mikevotes at 8:16 AM

5 Comments:

  • I was thinking, you know all this talk among the Dem candidates about who's been vetted and who hasn't? It seems to me the only one who hasn't been vetted is McCain.

    Remember the SNL skit Hillary whined about? The one about the press fawning over Barack... offering him a pillow...? I found it oddly surreal that the "press" yucks it up with McCain and offers him doughnuts... with sprinkles. Once again it's impossible to tell reality from The Onion.

    And somewhere in NYC, a writer is crumpling up a sketch... because it went from exaggerated comedy to, well, a news event.

    By Blogger -epm, at 9:55 AM  

  • Did you watch the SNL skit from this last Saturday?

    (As for McCain's vetting, I'm pretty sure it'll happen. I think the favors to lobbyists will end up being a big campaign theme as he claims to be so clean.)

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:42 AM  

  • Yeah, I saw the SNL skit in your earlier post. Very funny.

    I'm wondering if the traditional media will continue to use words like "maverick" and "war hero" as if they were McCain's first name. I've read that Obama keeps the traveling press at arm's distance, and that this has bruised some egos. As we've seen with the Fourth Estate, it's fairly veinal and not particularly interested in doing the work to illuminate the facts.

    By Blogger -epm, at 10:53 AM  

  • Yeah, the Obama campaign's distance, though, is also partly responsible fo what had been their incredible message discipline.

    I think alot of how they're framed will be dependent on the polling. If, after the Dem primary FINALLY ends, Obama gets a good bump and holds onto it, the McCain narrative may be one of a losing candidate.

    They may still like him, but that losing narrative erodes.

    We'll have to wait and see.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:04 AM  

  • The McCain narrative strikes a very deep nerve in the American psyche, the one from which our expansive exceptionalism springs. Galvanically, he is a cleaner conductor for it than the Bush family ever was; his antecedents are precisely what Republican narratives look for, and with Rove advising him this isn't going to be fun.

    Btw I cross-posted this picture, really nice selection, and have been diggin' your blog in general.

    By Blogger MarcLord, at 3:58 PM  

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