Some of Nothing

Karmic Justice Smacks McCalin
Thursday, September 4, 2008

First, the Obama campaign checks McCalin's facts:

PALIN: “In fact, I told Congress — I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that bridge to nowhere.”
REALITY: PALIN WAS FOR THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT. October 2006” Palin Supported Bridge To Nowhere.

...Obama has raised about $8 million from more than 130,000 donors and is on pace to raise $10 million by the time McCain reaches the stage tonight.

UPDATE: Obama spokesman Bill Burton says, "Sarah Palin's attacks have rallied our supporters in ways we never expected. And we fully expect John McCain's attacks tonight to help us make our grass-roots organization even stronger."

So culminating the day of scorn and mockery at John McCain and Sarah Palin’s decision to slag patriotic community organizers, I decided to call the campaign ((703) 418-2008 if you’re interested). To my surprise (ok not really) I learned they are just as thin-skinned and prone to explosive outbursts of rage as Johnny POW Mac himself.

My first call was to a campaign spokesperson.

Riiiing. Riiiing!

“Hello, McCain 2008, may I help you?”

“Hi, my name’s Brendan Skwire. I’m an independent voter calling from Philadelphia. I watched Sarah Palin’s speech last night, and I have to say as a community organizer myself, and as someone whose neighbiors are community organizers, I was pretty offended by her comment that people like us ‘have no real responsibilities’.”

“That’s not what she said, actually,” the woman began.

“Oh really? I have the text here. She said, and I quote ‘I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.’” That’s not very flattering...[Read the rest. It's hilarious!]

Rather than being the victim of his own post-partisanship, as Continetti argues, today McCain is in a downward spiral of ever-intensifying right-wingery even at a time when the American right has rarely been less popular. Many expected him to try to pull the plane up once the primaries were over, but the decision to re-re-invent himself is not so easily undone.

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Nothing New byslag at 6:33 PM