Richard Cheese ruins John Lennon’s “Imagine” as only Richard can.
His shtick is an admitted riff on Bill Murray’s lounge singer from Saturday Night Live, but you can also hear a Steve Martin influence (”A-ha-ha!”) and he truly takes Murray’s bit to the next level.
Because, really, what “Imagine” needed was some cowbell and yodeling.
(There’s about a minute and ten seconds of dead air on the end of this for some reason.)
… (and, really, let’s be glad I’m not) I’d have surrogates out there every day explaining that serving in Vietnam - while an honorable sacrifice - does not automagically make someone qualified to be president.
And then I’d sit back and watch McCain flip out at reporter after reporter until they’re all sitting in the back of the plane, he’s forced to barbecue by himself and the villagers are all whistling to themselves trying to fill the uncomfortable silence caused by the outburst.
(Note: Happily, this means I was at least somewhat wrong below. The question did not disappear into the ether. At least one reporter asked it.)
Since I’m a little peeved at Obama right now, I took the money I might have given to him and gave it to Darcy Burner.
She could use it right about now.
Here is the problem with backing down to these people: you think you’ve stopped the bleeding. You haven’t. You’ve opened up 15 more wounds. Now all mentions of McCain’s military experience, his lack of qualifications and his utter unfitness to be president will be seen in the light of you having admitted that such comments are unacceptable.
He cannot be criticized. Ever. Remember, you said it was wrong. If Clark cannot call him unqualified, then Jim Webb cannot and you cannot. You have implicitly ceded the point. You have granted the McCain campaign that he is qualified to be president.
He, meanwhile, continues to question your patriotism.
Think about that. He’s questioning whether or not you love this country and getting away with it while you’re left to argue that, yes, he’s qualified to be president but I’m more qualified. You’re still trying to convince people you’re not a secret al Qaeda agent and you’ve put one of his feet in the door of the Oval Office.
Hillary was wrong for a hundred reasons, but she would never have let this happen to her.
Tom Negrino goes through the details of McCain’s vaunted military experience. Remember, this is the record that the Obama campaign is willing to concede makes McCain qualified to lead our country. This is the resumé that won’t get discussed on the teevee.
McCain served his country far more than I or anyone I know personally did. But that does not make him qualified to be president. And that’s exactly what Wesley Clark said and that’s exactly the message the Obama campaign undermined.
The portrait - from his military record to his record in Congress - is clear. McCain is reckless and uninterested in details. Obama’s deference to this nonsense is a serious mistake.
(Before anyone cries swiftboating, these are facts that are on record. These are not the after-the-fact fabrications of political hit men.)
Jesus, when will Democrats learn how this game is played?
Lame doesn’t begin to cover it. It’s fucking malpractice.
UPDATE: Check out the current front of TPM for how piss-poor Obama is playing this game:
What’s wrong with this picture? Obama condemns Clark saying this:
SCHIEFFER: Can I just interrupt you? I have to say, Barack Obama hasn’t had any of these experiences either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.
CLARK: I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.
So, Obama believes that riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president. Just so we all know what he’s actually saying. Which is idiotic.
Then look at the the rest. “McCain camp continues to hit Obama.” Of course. Obama backed down in the face of utter bullshit so they’re going to hit him with more bullshit. McCain, meanwhile refuses to say whether or not he questions Obama’s patriotism. After wailing that he’s being “swiftboated”, he employs the services of one of the slimeballs who swiftboated Kerry to go after Obama.
Idiocy. Sheer, unmitigated idiocy on the part of the Obama campaign. This is just one incident but it shows such a broad lack of understanding of how to fight and win this thing that it’s disheartening. I’m incredibly disappointed.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Obama sums up why I enthusiastically support him for president (link to Daily Kos summary), even if he’s dead wrong on the FISA bill:
Out of Iraq, universal health care, energy independence and reducing global warming.
Bam, bam, bam, bam.
And to top it all off, he’s sitting in front of a Mac (as opposed to Mr. Doesn’t Even Fucking Use A Goddamn Computer).
Fucking. A.
Yo, yo, yo. Check out my Mac Celebrity Crib, y’all.
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