August 02, 2004
*Sigh*
filed under: Stuff to be pissed off aboutI haven't posted anything since a quick, jubilant reaction to Kerry's acceptance speech Thursday night. That's because, basically, I burned out.
For a couple nights last week, during masterful speeches by Clinton, Obama and Kerry, I was able to believe that I was watching decent men trying to use the filthy, dirty business of politics to do some good for their country.
Not that Clinton or Kerry are angels - they're not. They're professional politicians, with all the attendant hustle and dirt that implies (so far I'd like to believe that Obama might truly be that rarest of beasts, a Truly Good Guy). But I believe they're using the hustle and dirt to do some things that I believe are the right things to do.
But starting Thursday night, as CNN went into conniptions because the convention director cursed on air (why the heck his mic was on a live CNN feed for SEVERAL MINUTES is of course anyone's guess) when the balloons didn't drop, and commentators started to say "see, this is how the whole thing will be painted as another democratic party f*** up", and continuing the next morning when the Republican Noise Machine geared up and tried to make hay of the fact that Kerry never mentioned his time in the Senate... I think I sprained something.
So today I read at Talking Points Memo that the new Rove-ian approach to Kerry will be: make fun of him.
Here's the source article, at the New York Times (registration required), which admittedly makes less of a thesis of the "make fun of him" tactic than Josh Marhsall does, but does have this key paragraph:
Mr. Bush's advisers plan to cap the month at the Republican convention in New York, which they said would feature Mr. Kerry as an object of humor and calculated derision.
Here's where I should say "so these [insert bilious epithets about the administration] are going to [insert outraged description of tactic] instead of [insert positive spin of what Kerry/Edwards is trying to do] and it just might work unless we [insert suggestion of action that I'm not really going to get done]."
And I don't have the energy. Whatever I sprained, I can't walk on it yet.
So if posts are sparse in the next couple days, make good use of the links on the right. I'll be lying down.
Here's a picture of our President. Make of it what you will.
