If I had reservations about Michelle Obama, they are gone, blown away by the typhoon of Sarah Palin. Michelle Obama is an erudite woman and she would appear to do a good job of blending motherhood with politics. Not that she is running for anything. But she has been the subject of my criticism - as has Barack Obama.
I was underwhelmed by him when I sat in a Nashua, NH, room with him and listened to his platform. I could not find a "there" there.
That was over a year ago. Barack Obama has grown substantially while on the campaign trail. He also has aged - unlike McCain whose brow seems to have a weird Botoxy smoothness. But Obama has grown quite statesmanlike. He has kept his cool against the endless onslaughts of Fox and the GOP. He has stood tall. And he now has delivered substance to his platform. I am a hard sell, but I am won.
I've been avidly watching the evolving emotions on the campaign trails of the US and the desperate ploys of the Right to pre-empt voter fraud by going on and on about voter fraud. Bright red herrings are being dragged all over the media.
BUT...
There is another man still standing.
I note that Fox, while taking Huckabee onto staff as a personality and political commentator, has not mentioned Ron Paul - despite the fact that it is scratching for substance in its endless campaign against the wicked left and, hence, filling its airtime with talking heads talking to talking heads.
Ron Paul is still on the ballot in some places.
Wouldn't it be funny if the voters got to the the polls and discovered this surprise libertarian third option - and went for it?
As his supporters told me the first time I heard of him back in Manchester, NH when they were asserting a strong presence at a John McCain rally, Ron Paul is "the real maverick".
And now he has a running mate. Michael Peroutka
He seems to have a nice face - and he thinks the Iraq war is "ungodly".
They are no real threat - but they could provide a voting wedge to offset that monster saboteur of the Democrats, Ralph Nader.
And that is no bad thing! Onya, Ron!
1 comment:
hi samela , isn't it a sad indictment of america when their more afraid of a african american president and his educated wife than they are of nra gun toting ron paul who's major supporters make strom thurman look like mother teresa, and sarah palin who thinks international relations is a one night stand with a a latino gardener and believes that god created the world in seven days and her national security plan is being prayed over by a witch doctor.
Can the spin doctors please stop thinking that by robo phoning and smear campaigns that we wont see the slight of hand?, and john mccain yes you are a bonafide hero and what you did for your country should never be forgotten and we are eternally thankfull for the sacrifice ,so why smear that memory by stooping to the level of hiring the very spin docotrs who smeared you and your family in 2000. by taking these steps america forever loses a hero and gains a hypocrit . so let ron paul and his cronies hunt moose and tell palin jokes and let sarah hunt moose and be the joke and let barack obama rule with the grace we know he can and let america recover from eight years of the bush horror show . what america needs is honesty, youth and heart and that is obama.
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