We Are At War

 

We Are At War.

 

No, I don't mean in the deserts of Iraq and Afganistan, although surely that's the case too. I mean here in the streets, living rooms and cyber cafes of the good old U.S.A.

 

As we wake up this morning there is a war waging for the hearts and minds of America. Depending on what you read, the war is going very differently.

 

This war will last less than sixty days and is not about the issues, it is not about grand ideas, it is not about which party is more qualified to lead us, although certainly all that too is at stake.

 

The war is about sustained momentum. It is about what drives it. Character. Most of all, it is simply about PERCEPTION of those two things.

 

The race for the White House has become about how long John McCain can sustain the illusion that he and Sarah Palin have taken over momentum. Make no mistake, it’s an illusion. The race now is the difference between what McCain wants you to believe about the race versus the reality of it. The national polls don’t reflect a winner, they reflect a perceived trend. Obama is winning the electoral college handily, but if perception doesn't shift, that could change.

 

Right now John McCain is trying to guilt the press into accepting his version of the truth. Just as in the primaries much of the crystal ball reading by pundits and polls engaged in theatrics for the benefit of purely some undecided voters in Iowa, all of the histrionics about Sarah Palin and the national polls now are solely for benefit of a few undecided swing voters in OH, NV, NM, MO, and FL.

The entire nation isn't embracing Sarah Palin and John McCain, but if a voter in Taos, New Mexico THINKS that's the case, he or she just might jump on the bandwagon even if the music is a bit off key.


How does Barack Obama combat this? By showing up to a knife fight with a gun. He needs to pull back the curtain and show us Oz's saggy white bottom, exposing the propaganda blow by blow in ways even a fifth grader will get.



Right now, McCain’s gambling everything he's got that the house of cards won't crumble in time.

 You see, McCain plays craps in Vegas, sometimes for up to 14 hours. Right now he's got his whole wad sitting on lucky 6 and he's praying you roll the hard way. He's going negative now in the hopes something will stick while there's still the perception that he’s not a loser. The polls aren't real, they're 1250 shadows of an electorate begging to be real.



Character. The key to victory.

 

With the ad that McCain released recently falsely accusing Obama of wanting to teach five year olds sex-ed, McCain just crapped out. It is the biggest mistake of McCain's reckless campaign. It's the nuke that opens McCain for new-clear retaliation on everything from the Keating Five to he and Palin’s consistent lies on the campaign trail. It takes away any shred of Teflon they had left on the Bridge To Nowhere.


Take the Obama campaign's reply to McCain's sex-ed ad; "“It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls,” said campaign spokesman Bill Burton. “Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn’t define what honor was. Now we know why.”



From now on the race is only about whom the American people trust to tell the truth. Do you trust McCain and the GOP?

Anotherwords, Barack Obama will follow the law. McCain won't.

John McCain is telling holdout voters that he's a war hero and that qualifies him to be President. It’s important to note that John McCain is NOT a war hero. He is a war SURVIVOR who deserves our respect and admiration for his service to our country, but simply surviving a horrible situation doesn't give you an automatic pass on character issues and it isn't something you should be allowed to hang an entire campaign full of corporate lobbyists on.



John McCain swore up and down that he would never make baseless character attacks after he himself was slandered viscously in 2000 over his imaginary "illegitimate black child" in ads masterminded by political consultant Tucker Eskew. Yet he recently hired Eskew, the same guy that slimed him and made Cindy McCain cry, to slime Obama with ads starring preschoolers and Paris.

McCain has made it all about his character while not mentioning he has seven major lobbyists running his campaign and that his v.p. is the queen of pork.

Palin.  A fringe right wing radical who's extremist views remain a mystery even to John McCain, whom John McCain has placed into a position of power for short term political benefit at the expense of his country.

Remember, this is all about McCain trying to steal the race by creating false perceptions about it, himself and Palin. The most partisan right wing polls and propaganda are also about padding the floor for the jaw drop that might occur should McCain actually win. He needs a narrative to justify his unlikely victory and to prevent a blowback that would make Bush's inauguration look like an episode of Sesame Street. He needs to sell the American electorate a bill of goods so that he can say, "See, wasn't I a genius? I picked Palin and that's why I won."



No John, its not. 



If John McCain wins, it'll be because his shock troops hit you with manipulated facts and figures and meaningless celebrity ala Paris's purse or Palin's glasses.

Beyond that, they're gonna cage votes. They're gonna deliver too few voting machines to minority neighborhoods. They’re gonna get absentee ballots and new registrations thrown out. They're gonna send you to the wrong table to vote so you won’t find your name and take a provisional ballot you can wipe Oz's saggy butt thrice with because your partisan Secretary of State won’t count it.

All politics are local. Election fraud is incremental and its death by a million cuts. Its passing a Jim Crow style voter ID law in Indiana that results in 30,000 seniors staying home because they can't afford health or wealthwise to get out and get an ID. Its handing out a hundred thousand provisional ballots in New Mexico that won’t count because voters too tired from long days at work forget to call their Registrar’s office and check if their voter registration is correct. If you’ve ever moved or had your house foreclosed, be prepared to have your vote caged.


What’s vote caging? GOP affiliated groups will send hundreds of thousands of targeted DO NOT FORWARD letters in order to challenge the votes of any letters that return to sender.  
This worked well in Florida and it’ll work here too.

John McCain and the neocon radicals that have hijacked his party have put principles and country aside for greed. Put nothing past a frightened Bush GOP that may go down in flames of scandal for good if they don't win and cover their messes. 



Do not vote absentee or provisional. Call your County Registrar’s office to check your voter registration accuracy and to find where your early voting place is. Did you know you can vote a month early at the Registrar’s office?

Also check registration at www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php#