John McCain and the Lying Game
http://www.time.com/ time/ politics/ article/ 0,8599,1842030,00.html

Koch said Palin ‘Scares the Hell Out of Me’…well its McCain who should scare the hell out of us too selecting someone like Palin.

McCain has lost it for sure…hes not fit to rule america….

The Big Whisper: What’s Up With John McCain?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 2008/ 09/ 18/ the-big-whisper-whats-up_n_127435.html

Jesse Ventura.

The Democrats have to pull people out of the attitude of spectators at a show and into the attitude of decision-makers with a task to do for the future. They can do this in a clever or amusing way but they need to do it to make an impact.

(I mention this because of the obvious parallels to the current administration and any possible McCain administration)

I have very little respect for McCain or his campaign. Anything that knocks him off would be good.

Anyway, McCain was on TV (also from speeches) that he is going to clean up Wall Street, clean up the corruption and he was going to make sure this fiancial meltdown to not happen again. The same old lies, overpromise and become the superman for everybody that Republicans do around election time.

But what is it that happened that got Wall Street is so much trouble. The prime reason is that there was to much money that was put into real estate. There was also bad finacing schemes that went with that and is what allowed to much money into real estate.

But the Republicans and McCain are going after a program for energy of ‘all of the energy sources.’ That would be Nuclear, offshore oil drilling, etc. If it’s all of these sources, isn’t that just openning energy to be the next bubble? McCain says he wants to protect American workers from corruption on Wall Street and bad regulations, but McCain and the Republicans are setting America up for the Nuclear Power bubble and all the other energy sources that can become uneconomic after they are economic with more expensive Oil and Gas. Who protects us from a corrupt McCain.

The front page of the Rocky Mt News had an interesting foto of women in the Palin rally yesterday in JeffCo holding up lipstick, similar to the ‘purple finger’ last cycle. I tell you, the Repubs know how to create these icons to appeal to the personality types that go for that stuff. Would that the Dems or an independent candidate could do the same – provided the recipients are homogeneous enough to go for iconography…

Best,

D

What is it about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin that appeals to women voters?

…’Pioneer woman’…

I asked Mrs Palin’s supporters there if there were any specific policies of hers they admire. None could name a single one, but that did not seem to dampen their admiration.

“She’s interesting, she’s hard-working,” I was told. “I think she’s going to do a great job.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7617411.stm

Furthermore, some of the most inveterate liars claim to be honest and harp on honesty…you can expose the lies of others, but it is difficult to claim honesty for yourself…you have to prove that through action. There is of course the liar’s paradox, which is the strongest paradox in philosophy.

I’m just not sold on this as an effective and winning campaign message. I do however believe that being honest and pointing out the dangers of dishonesty needs to be the basic practice in all politics rather than the content of a message.

Yesterday, I felt like September 15 was a turning point in North America, with this new energy in the Obama campaign, and news that the Conservative Party in Canada had dropped 4 points in the polls to 37 percent of decided voters.

And I’ve found a half dozen web sites, all professionally done, that are trying to do what I’m doing… Keeping the Conservatives from office, and boost the fortunes of the opposition parties. I’ve even found a site that that will help Canadians vote strategically to ensure that close ridings will swing to the parties that have serious climate change policies.

http://www.voteforclimate.ca