Lips, Pigs and Yips....

I'm actually becoming really annoyed at my candidate these days. For some reason he's feels compelled to mix it up with the bottom of the ticket and he wants to comment on all this static noise from the McCain camp.

Senator Obama must stop commenting on Sarah Palin. He's running against John McCain and they are using these tactics to divert attention from McCain's policy, age and ties to President Bush. When Obama responds, reacts and brings up her name, he's wallowing in the mud with the bottom of the ticket which is where McCain's camp wants him. He needs to stop it now.

He needs to focus on Obama's message, paint the contrasts between McCain and Obama, tie McCain to BUSH; hell, I'm a Republican and I see what McCain is doing. If Senator Obama must take swipes, take them at McCain and George Bush. Palin is a tactic and his campaign is falling for it. Let, MAKE, Biden go after Palin, get the female surrogates out there to go after Palin. He's the top of the ticket and that should be his focus. As they say in golf, don't let your opponent get in your head, otherwise you get the Yips. Forget lips and pigs, right now, Obama has the Yips.

-Golf

Crusty the Clown

John McCain, crusty the clown, is at it again. His current ad uses Hillary Clinton clips to attack Barack Obama. This particular ad is targeted at Clinton’s angry supporters and of course the independents that McCain needs if he is going to win in November. All of McCain’s ads have a few things in common: they are increasingly negative and each is peppered with that oleaginous hypocrisy of a close at the end “I’m John McCain and I approved this message.” with a goofy smile. Or is it a smirk?



I guess everything is fair game in politics, but I recall Crusty saying that he wasn’t going to run a negative campaign against Obama. What’s particularly noteworthy is that in all the attacks, Crusty hasn’t seen fit to outline what his circus act intends to do to govern. All of his ads focus on Obama in an effort to highlight the presumptive democratic nominee’s alleged shortcomings.

One thing is certain, the race is a dead heat and both candidates need to spend more time talking about what they will do to make life better for Americans. As for McCain, he should fold up the circus tent and behave with the dignity and honor of someone who has served as a military officer and senator who now seeks this Nation’s highest office.
-Golf

Obamanomics

In

Obamanomics

, bestselling author on politics and economy John Talbott sizes up the odds that Barack Obama’s presidential policies might actually stand a chance of working.

Talbott, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who is credited with having been among the first to predict the current housing crisis in his bestselling 2003 book “The Coming Crash in the Housing Market” offers the first book of its kind about the leading presidential candidate.

When Talbott read Obama’s speeches, books, statements and policy papers released by the Obama campaign, he discovered that they add up to a set of principles and specific policies that are different from anything we’ve seen in a generation. Talbott then called on his own deep knowledge of the current state of the American economy, with all the challenges we face as a nation to determine the likelihood of Senator Obama enacting lobbying reform, revitalizing our economy, fixing our healthcare system, slowing global warming, ending the war in Iraq, improving education, addressing the aging of our population, finding alternative energy solutions and bringing about housing, mortgage and banking reform. The result is: “Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics.”

Obamanomics would seem to be the right book at the right time to address the great challenges that will face the next president and all of us. If you decide to read it too, come back and let’s compare notes.
-Golf