A hunting we will go
I just read on the news crawl that Kerry is going hunting in Ohio today to show that he's just a "guy." Well, at least he's learned that going windsurfing wasn't winning him any votes in Iowa. But, come on. Is our country so pathetic that he'll really get more support by shooting things than actually talking to people? 12 days before the election? Going on a little hunting trip in Ohio 12 days before the election sounds about as plausible as Scott Peterson going fishing in the Bay on Christmas Eve with a pregnant wife at home.
Kerry's next move should be to sidle up to reporters and say, "Pull my finger." Then he should go to every World Series game wearing a beer helmet and get into a brawl with a 10-year-old over a foul ball.
And what's with Teresa? Ad hominem attacks on sweet, demure Laura Bush? Memo to Teresa: Stay on message or shut up.
posted by Marty Grimes @ 6:46 AM
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I gave up on this election the moment I read a quote by an undecided voter that went something like this: "If I lived next door to George Bush, I think we'd be friends. But if I lived next door to Kerry, it'd be more like we'd wave to each other in the driveway in the morning but we'd never really get to know each other. So I think I'll vote for Bush."
Or the woman who said something like, "I think Kerry has a better plan to handle Iraq, but George Bush is born again, and I think he'll lead the country in a more faith-based direction, so maybe I'll vote for him."
Well, I wouldn't call ten thousand dead Iraqis a very Christian sort of accomplishment, but maybe I missed a memo.
I hate it, too, that Kerry does things like go hunting on the campaign trail. What, he just got hungry and decided to go kill his own food for dinner rather than send a campaign aide out for a sandwich? What a spectacle. But unlike previous elections, there are a lot of lives on the line. If this strategy works--and if Kerry can actually put a lid on the violence in Iraq--it will be worth the theatrics.
Sigh.
I had agreed to answer phones at a pledge drive for our local public radio station for 2 hours tonight, and I was real busy and didn't want to do it, but then I thought of you guys heading to Nevada and thought, geez, the very least I can do is give a couple hours so that some kind of honest media coverage stays on the air.
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