One potential plus of the Wall Street miseries of the past couple of days (disclosure: Bank Of America is now prominent in my financial life and home ownership) is that people who want to see Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House can drop the rapid-fire personal attacks on John McCain and Sarah Palin in favor of straight, hard talk about the economy and finding ways to keep America from sliding into another Great Depression.
The current notions of "hitting back" ( Senator Claire McCaskill, a MOR pol I generally admire, was sent out to cable news to vocalize the "McCain's too old and he's had cancer" recitative) and letting slip the left-wing 527 attack dogs amount to little more than trying to avenge John Kerry's loss of the 2004 election. This is akin to the 2004 election attempts to harpoon George Butch, Jr. for his National Guard Vietnam-avoidance service--an attack that should have been retired after Baby Butch's 2000 appointment to the Presidency.
It's time for the Democrats and their sympathizers to cut the crap--along with the temptation to condescend to/snark over the "stupidity" of members of the GOP who take McCain and Palin at face value.
It's time to win with the truth--and ensure a healthy voter turnout that can override any voter-registration chicanery/mis-or-uncounted votes.
Update (9/24/08): A link to an old Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK article from 2000 about McCain's temper and decision-making in the Senate: http://www.newsweek.com/id/82862
Update (9/25/08): Apparently CNN has decided that Campbell Brown can express opinions just as Glenn Beck does on sister channel Headline News. Here's a quote from Ms. Brown about the race to get the financial bailout bill passed without any real scrutiny:
"Now, I know everyone is screaming about how urgent this crisis is, that action must be taken immediately. But I love and live by former Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' great quote: 'Sunshine is the best disinfectant.' What we need is scrutiny and debate. If it has to happen quickly, then do it fast. But without grandstanding, or political posturing. Serious scrutiny and debate — and that should happen whether we are talking about a giant piece of legislation that is going to affect all of our lives, or whether we are talking about our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates."
Link that includes a videoreplay from CNN: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/25/campbell-brown-holds-paul_n_129296.html
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