Decrepit Old Fool

The McCain campaign has admitted that their strategy is about narratives, rather than about issues.  OK, how about this narrative?  The inescapable issue for me is the relative competence of the candidates.  McCain’s decision-making process is characterized by shooting from the hip.  Obama gets information from experts, consults opposing sides, and makes real decisions.  That is what an executive does.

I’ve been watching Obama since long before he became nationally famous, and you could not ask for a more level head in office.  He is not easily provoked, and he stays focused on issues instead of wandering off on demagoguery.  It does not speak well for our nation that any real contest is likely between the two candidates.  Obama is exactly the leader that our country needs.

From Comments From Left Field:

Narratives:
  Now* I understand McCain and Palin

  I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
• If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re a quintessential American story.
• If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
• If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
• If you graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.
• If you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
• If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
• If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
• If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
• * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
• If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
• If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.
• If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
• If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, *much* clearer now.

HT ***Dave