Monday, September 29, 2008

The impending trainwreck

Ambinder:

Instead of unsheathing Palin, the strategy this week is to attack Joe Biden and try to drive a wedge between him and Obama, another McCain aide said.

For the day, you mean. For a guy who's so old, John McCain reminds me of nothing more than an ADHD-addled little kid, in terms of temperament as well as policy.

I've read some analysis saying that Palin will probably do well because the expectations were sufficiently lowered. Then again, I agree with Nate Silver that this was never the intention. I guess it depends on how well she plays the victim card, because that's all she can play right now. We'll see.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.