The Dark Comedy of Mister McCain
"Hold your friends close but your enemies closer." So went one of the two most memorable lines from the "Godfather" film series, the other being James Caan saying "I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his ( ) in his hand." That's one reason why I pay more attention to the J. McCain campaign than I do to B. Obama's, though I am on the Obama side all the way.
Not that I look at McCain as an enemy. If he didn't represent such a sinister cause, I would see him as being mainly a comic instead -- the kind of stand-up, however, that you're glad to see safely isolated from you up on that stage, because it could never have been pleasant being in his company at any time -- which totally explains his prison camp experiences.
His campaign people embody a lot of that dark comedy as well, because nearly every day they come out with something ludicrous, which is only natural, because they are always doomed to have to spin something out of nothing.
Their latest shot is to link B. Obama's name with that of two young ladies for whom the media for a long time has had frequent and extended bouts of an insatiable love appetite, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, by saying that Obama has become a celebrity right up there in their "class."
In their garbled minds the McCain camp must be thinking that thereby, in the minds of older voters, they link Obama not with the fame but instead with the infamy of these two young ladies, who, deliberately or not, seem incapable of staying out of the notorious spotlight for long. And even if they're not in trouble, merely slamming a car door is sufficient to send their names humming happily out over the news wires.
But since when has being tagged as a celebrity hurt anyone in this country? Celebrity-worship is the central American religion. And what about the younger voters? Surely this association can only boost Obama's standing with them, generally speaking. And meanwhile most voters my age or thereabouts can't possibly have wasted nearly as much time as I have in trying to make some sense of the Hilton-Spears media syndrome. Instead, they are strictly zeroed in, as they should be, on their gas and health costs.
Both ladies are said to be Republicans, but neither is known for her political activism. Therefore, regardless of their party preference (provided that either votes at all), they might welcome this linkage of Obama's name with their own to keep their celebrity status going, because even in this slow news period, neither had apparently done anything sufficient to rate yet another tsk-tsk lately. ...Well, maybe P. Hilton might. One can never be sure about Ms Spears.
Not that I look at McCain as an enemy. If he didn't represent such a sinister cause, I would see him as being mainly a comic instead -- the kind of stand-up, however, that you're glad to see safely isolated from you up on that stage, because it could never have been pleasant being in his company at any time -- which totally explains his prison camp experiences.
His campaign people embody a lot of that dark comedy as well, because nearly every day they come out with something ludicrous, which is only natural, because they are always doomed to have to spin something out of nothing.
Their latest shot is to link B. Obama's name with that of two young ladies for whom the media for a long time has had frequent and extended bouts of an insatiable love appetite, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, by saying that Obama has become a celebrity right up there in their "class."
In their garbled minds the McCain camp must be thinking that thereby, in the minds of older voters, they link Obama not with the fame but instead with the infamy of these two young ladies, who, deliberately or not, seem incapable of staying out of the notorious spotlight for long. And even if they're not in trouble, merely slamming a car door is sufficient to send their names humming happily out over the news wires.
But since when has being tagged as a celebrity hurt anyone in this country? Celebrity-worship is the central American religion. And what about the younger voters? Surely this association can only boost Obama's standing with them, generally speaking. And meanwhile most voters my age or thereabouts can't possibly have wasted nearly as much time as I have in trying to make some sense of the Hilton-Spears media syndrome. Instead, they are strictly zeroed in, as they should be, on their gas and health costs.
Both ladies are said to be Republicans, but neither is known for her political activism. Therefore, regardless of their party preference (provided that either votes at all), they might welcome this linkage of Obama's name with their own to keep their celebrity status going, because even in this slow news period, neither had apparently done anything sufficient to rate yet another tsk-tsk lately. ...Well, maybe P. Hilton might. One can never be sure about Ms Spears.
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