After all that is all it takes to win elections.

He may be seeing now how diffiocult it’s going to be to get the kind of cabinet he was dreaming about. At least the kind he thought possible before people started snooping around his friends and relationships.

When you lie down with pigs, there’s a good chance some of the mud is going to stick to you. Or something like that.

He does better with a script…

When are we going to hear/ask/demand to know about their plans to fix the issues the Media and the Dems have spouted off about for the last eight years?

What are the proposed fixes for:

- Guantanemo
- FEMA (Katrina)
- Social Security
- FISA/”Domestic Wiretapping”
- National infrastructure (collapsing bridges, overtaxed power grids)
- steroids and hormones in professional sports

I don’t care about either candidates middle name, or religion. I don’t care about their ministers, pastors, or chimney sweeps. I want to know what we’re going to do about national debt, other than increase it. I want to know what we’re going to do about oppressive progressive confiscatory taxation. I want to know what we’re going to do about energy independence OTHER than CAP & TRADE & TAX the oil out of the ground.

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It would be less of a problem if Obama weren’t presenting himself as a new kind of politician, unblemished by ordinary political taints and shining with spiritual radiance to lead us to the promised land of a remade America.

When things don’t work out right, Obama always makes excuses, that he’s in an impossible situation, that others have let him down, that his enemies are trying to distract the American people, or that he’s been misunderstood and didn’t say what he said.

It’s never because Obama made poor choices.

BTW, is anyone else sick of the nose-in-the air pix?

- Guantanemo

Close the facility, and move the inmates to the US mainland. Then confer upon them Constitutional rights, tying everything up in civilian courts. Which will probably result in the inmates being freed, and repatriated to the country of their choice. So they can go and try to kill some more Americans.

- FEMA (Katrina)
- Social Security
- FISA/”Domestic Wiretapping”

Nothing. On FEMA they’ll both make some glittering platitudes, while secretly acknowledging that FEMA’s actual response was quicker than any previous. Repeat after me: FEMA is not a first responder.

Social inSecurity is not acknowledged as an issue. So expect nothing to be said.

McCain is strong on FISA. Obama sees no need for it.

- National infrastructure (collapsing bridges, overtaxed power grids)

I suspect that both will say raise taxes! Me? I would challenge your assertion that things are bad enough to require the President to address them.

- steroids and hormones in professional sports

Who, exactly, cares about that? if Congress wants to waste its time and money investigating this issue, that’s great. It leaves less time for them to find new ways to make my life less enjoyable.

That’s not actually what I was getting at. My intent was to present the litany of BDS-inspired causes du jour thrown about by the media and Dems when they thought they were worth political points, but are notably absent in their reporting/debating/punditry today. That was the reason for the facetious inclusion of professional sports as well.

My writing skills are insufficient to convey irony, it appears.

FWIW, I agree with your analysis of the top four items, sad as it is.