ACORN
and election fraud. Hang on. As soon as I can get the alligator that
crawled out of my toilet back into the New York City sewers where it
belongs, I can turn my attention to this very important topic.
You see, the ACORN "election fraud" story is one of those urban
legends, like fake moon landings and alligators in the sewers, and it
appears three or four weeks before every recent national election with
the regularity of the swallows returning to Capistrano.
In the past few weeks, we've seen three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. The TV audiences have been sizable, but these four debates have provided little sizzle and even less steak.
The 2008 presidential election may see the highest participation in U.S. history. Voter-registration organizations and local election boards have been overwhelmed by enthusiastic people eager to vote. But not everyone is happy about this blossoming of democracy.
In case you haven't heard, there's a guy running for president named Barack Hussein Osama Nobama. This Nobama was born outside America and secretly schooled in Islamic terrorism at a Wahhabi madrassa. He then moved to the United States to take up the radical '60s teachings of the Weather Underground's Bill Ayers, while also organizing for ACORN, a subprime-lending, voter fraud-committing collective of affirmative-action welfare queens. All this happened before he became an elitist celebrity advocate of socialism, infanticide, the sexual abuse of children and treason.
Time's Ana Marie Cox, in a Bloggingheads discussion
with Ann Althouse, does an excellent job of expressing what is still,
amazingly enough, the prevailing media view of John McCain: namely,
that this deeply honorable and principled man is vehemently opposed to
running an ugly, dirty campaign against Barack Obama, and that is
happening despite McCain's deep opposition to such campaigns and the
way it profoundly violates his code of honor.
John McCain said it. Right out loud in the third debate.
"Obviously, we had to take Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait or it would've threatened the Middle Eastern oil supply."
The first gulf war was about defending access to oil after all. McCain reiterated the theme later on, as he has in past debates, when he said that we need to "eliminate our dependence on the places in the world that harm our national security."
Once again, the media and even
Democratic candidate Barack Obama, have failed to follow-up on McCain's
stated opposition to abortion by questioning his equal opposition to
contraception - the primary means to reduce the rate of abortion.
The Presidential debates are ending with Barack Obama roller-coastering up the opinion polls as the old economic scenery collapses behind him. Here, in the middle of 1929, it's tempting to write this off as a race between the first black man to run for President and the first corpse but this isn't over. Even now, John McCain is poking his head out of the rubble only six points behind. The insipid soundbites of a presidential campaign give little guide to how a candidate will govern: remember George W Bush promising a "more humble foreign policy" at every debate in 2000?
