Worth knowing

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EDITED IN, September 23: Ethan Winner admitted to being the author of the video in question, but implausibly claims to have done it on his own without any collaboration from his family's PR company - which then just decided to push it as hard as possible! Lucky boy, eh?

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Re: Three Opinions

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the the effort put into smearing Palin is proportional to the impact she has had on the race. I find it fascinating that Fox News spends much more time discussing her than it does McCain. Indeed Greta Van Sustren's show (sorry of that is mispelt) could be described as the Palin Puff Show these last few weeks. With about two thirds of its content devoted to interviews with her, her husband, her ex-boss, her newspaper boy, her ......

No matter what you think of Palin, and there are few things that disturb me about her politics, she has brought something new to the race and appears to have excited voters (one way or another) more than any of the three men. standing.

Re: Three Opinions

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I have a suspicion that what the Obama camp really fear is her star power. There are people whom you notice as soon as they enter a room, who dominate any group they are in even without trying. I call it "the look-at-me", and it is not conscious, it's inborn. Obama has it, and it has enabled him to dominate these elections so far. But Sarah has it as well, with the advantage of not having become slightly shop-worn by a year of intensive campaigning and opposition revelations. Obama's star quality, rather than his policies, were the real draw of his campaign, and they suspect that McCain may have silenced that while leaving the main actor, McCain himself, free to expose Obama's own lack of experience and (maybe) substance.

If that is the case, though, the new economic crisis has mixed all the cards as well. Obama is hardly likely to suffer by it, whereas McCain has seemed, for the first time in his campaign, fumbling and unclear - and not just angry, as people know he can get, but pointlessly angry. This is a gift of God to the Obama strategists, if they can use it. Most Americans, even if they know nothing about finance, will realize that to blame one man, even if he is the head of the SEC, is plain silly, and does not make up for the lack of a coherent plan. As someone pointed out this morning, McCain should have acted "more in sorrow than in anger", and pointed out that he himself had been warning of the dangers of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac taking up too much bad debt (which he had). Until now, I was fairly sure of a McCain victory, now I would not put my money on him.