The horrifying economic picture just seems to keep spiralling downward, and nothing anyone can do at the moment seems to be likely to assuage or conceal the carnage. The one silver lining I can find to this ominous black cloud is that it serves to underscore some inescapeable truths that Barak & Co. having been crying out for many months:
We NEED change.We need REAL change.We need it RIGHT NOW!
ALL of these facts should, and apparently DO tend to increase Obama's widening lead in the polls, and so, presumably, bring him ever closer to victory in this election.
For his part, McSame has been acting like a man in obvious desparation. He continues to scramble and scrape for anything he can throw at Obama, but in so doing he has merely been proving his own insufficiencies. Day by day he's becoming more viscious and dishonest, but in doing so, he just undermines his OWN credibility. I believe he will soon be unble to convince ANYONE he can lead us anywhere we want to be.
So with all going so well for the Obama campaign, why should he look seriously at CHANGING his approach...?
The complete reversal of momentum in the McCain campaign IMMEDIATELY following the introduction of his running mate is disturbing to me for a number of reasons:
1. Those who had been hesitant to support McCain for who HE is seemed too eager to jump on the bandwagon the INSTANT he brought on board someone who seemed to them to more directly represent and embody a candidate they had WANTED to support. Do those people suddenly think, "O.K., I didn't like the look, smell or sound of John McCain before, but when he stands next to HER, he is surprisingly transformed into my kind of person!" I seriously doubt almost anyone could truly be that naive on a conscious, intellectual level. Nevertheless as an outside observer, that IS very nearly how Palin's unveiling seems to have effected throngs of people, especially in the 'farther right' and the 'evangelical Christian' camps.
The speed with which so many hearts seemed to change suggests only one plausible explanation That I can come up with: many, many people would support an institution or 'brand' with which they choose to identify EVEN IF it meant backing a candidate who did NOT appear to represent the "values" which they themselves attributed to that label. That is to say people's loyalties are STRONGER to the institution or label than to the core pricipals which they believe BROUGHT them to that label IN THE FIRST PLACE!! "Yes, I'm a Christian, and I have to admit I was taken aback a bit when my PARTY nominated Satan; but now he's chosen someone as a running mate who looks to me like an angel, so I guess maybe Satan isn't as bad as I thought. GO, TEAM, GO!! DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Now I'm NOT saying John McCain is Satan, or anything even remotely close. (In fact, I once thought of him as a rather honorable person, but he seems to be trying to rid me of that illusion lately.) I'm only using hyperbole to illustrate how the thought processes of this mob seems to me to be functioning in this strange situation.
