This post from the LA Times blog describes a truly silly development from the Repug nominee for president (R-Too Many Homes)…Reporters covering Barack Obama are getting style tips from an unexpected source: the McCain campaign.See, McBush and his people think it’s funny that Obama’s stage tonight will feature “a podium in front of a backdrop featuring neo-classical columns,” as the LA Times blog tells us, and they’re trying to use that as an excuse to prolong this idiotic “cult of personality” theme about Obama, even though writer Kate Linthicum points out that Dubya accepted the Repug nomination in 2004 against a very similar stage.
John McCain spokesman Brian Rogers on Wednesday sent out an illustrated "style guide." It includes detailed directions of how to select and properly wrap a toga -- yes, a toga -- as well as instructions on where to don one: Obama's nomination acceptance speech, which he'll give at Denver's Mile High stadium tonight.
Why the sudden interest in Classical haute couture? Hint: It's not about attire but satire.
This criticism isn’t surprising to me, really, since I think the McBush campaign has “ancient” themes anyway, if you will (meaning tired, stale, trite, overdone…feel free to come up with your own similar adjective).
And considering the fact that foreign policy is supposedly a strength of the Repug Arizona senator, even though he mixed up the timing of the “Sunni awakening” and the “surge” here, stated that Gen. David Petraeus was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff here (that’s Admiral Mike Mullen’s title), stated that there was an Iraq/Pakistan border here, and stated at least twice that Iran’s Shiites were helping Iraq’s Sunni insurgents (here is one example), it’s hard to tell whether McBush’s campaign at this point is a Greek tragedy or a Roman farce.
Update: Gosh, I don't know what to say about this - I'm all choked up. Maybe as a "kiss and make up" kind of a gift, McBush could let Dubya have one of his homes.
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