OBAMANIA

THE DAILY KEENE 

Okay, I meant “Daily” in the sense of prepared during the daytime, not that I was going to actually produce one of these rants every day.

Yes, that was my daughter cavorting in Times Square Tuesday night, her face and arms covered with Obama stickers and tattoos, gracing the CNN screen.

I thought Sarah Palin was an inspired choice- for giving the keynote speech at the Republican Convention. She can rally and energize a crowd, and is a great campaigner.  I’m not sure what she was doing in the substantive vice-presidential role channeling Dan Quayle. McCain was in need of a Hail Mary, and Sarah was it.

The comparisons between the Barack Obama of four years ago and the Sarah Palin of today are striking. McCain’s choice of her was the equivalent of John Kerry deciding to select Obama as his running mate in 2004. A great convention speech only goes so far.

McCain himself has never appealed to the party base. His biggest bump in the polls by far occurred when he selected Palin and she wowed the convention.

John McCain was taught an important lesson in this campaign. The Washington-New York media will fawn all over you when you challenge George Bush and/or the Republican establishment. Once you become the candidate of that same establishment, however, you are very much expendable.

Now that the election is over, the Democrats have a green light to tax and dismantle 401K’s, increase the tax on capital gains, and allow the estate tax to spring back to life.  ACORN will take over the role of the League of Women Voters.

Image has won out over substance. Let the Cult of Obama begin.

DAVIDKEENE@DAVIDKEENE.NET                               

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008           v.1, No. 1

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WORDS O’WISDOM

"Remember that very often when life seems to be falling apart, it may actually be falling together for the first time."

 LOWEST COMMON OBOMANATOR

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As Oliver Hardy used to say, “this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.”

So, if I understand the situation correctly, George Soros and Pablo Escobar are going to pull their pesos out of the American economy and leave us high and illiquid (I know Pablo’s dead, but I mean drug cartels in general). There isn’t a prison nasty enough for the Wall Street savants, regulatory “watchdogs” and members of Congress who engineered this house of cards.

The Democrats, evincing a subtlety usually reserved for Orkin commercials concerning termites, are blaming it all on John McCain (wasn’t he that character played by Bruce Willis in all those action flicks?) I always get the Keating Five confused with the Dave Clark Five.

By the way, my credit union gave me some lame excuse today when I called up to extend my car loan, so I can use a few bucks.

On to the debate: On foreign affairs, McCain comes off like an irritable high school teacher lecturing a recalcitrant student. For his part, I thought Obama bought into McCain’s criticism more than he needed to, and played defense most of the night.  On the economy, it was clear that Obama knows how to connect with an audience. Unfortunately, there no longer appears to be an American economy to worry about.

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Coming Thursday: Sarah Pale ’n’ Tall.