Clinton’s campaign is running a hard-hitting add reminiscent of the classic 1964 anti-Goldwater “Daisy” ad. Going after him based on his temperament, the ad implies that he might accidentally start a war because of his hot temper. Interestingly, the one quote that they emphasize is one that she would be very likely to agree with.
A Choice of Temperament
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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And still I keep saying to myself: If Trump is THAT bad — and I mean “bad” in the sense of being defective or incapable of doing something, not “bad” in some sense of evil — why is HRC still in the fight of her life with him?
The New York Times ran an article yesterday that reads more like preemptive damage control for Team Hillary than like news.
The NYTimes also tells us that Republicans are registering more voters than Democrats, AND, that some Senate seats that were considered safe Republican are now in play.
So which is it? Are the Republicans registering more voters but only in a few states (which sounds utterly impossible)? Or is it that the New York Times keeps jamming itself up trying to tell the truth and serve as HRC’s dutiful mouthpiece simultaneously?
RIght now, Sept. 1, early morning, HRC has an 87% chance of winning, according to the Times’ Upshot. A few days ago, it was at 90%. It’s 60 more days to the election. Trump, whether you like him or not, is offering policies, and whether they are coherent is completely irrelevant to most of the voters. HRC is offering that she is not Donald Trump, and that, when the dust settles, isn’t policy, it’s advertising (and not very good advertising).
HRC will probably win, yes, but she almost certainly won’t win the Senate or the House, and she has to win BOTH. And she has to win with veto-proof margins. And I find it interesting that the Times isn’t running any probability forecasts on that.
Chiun – reigning master of Sinanju – says that politicians should be evaluated solely on the beauty of their songs, not on any incidental relationship with objective reality.
Seems the American voter agrees.
That having been said, take a look….
https://www.facebook.com/JoeNBC/videos/10154489274671880/
Thank you, and a hearty ROTFL from my wife & me both.
Poe’s law writ large: Is that a parody of Trump, or of the Trump Chumps? Does it matter? Both sides will get a kick out of it (and hopefully he’ll get a headache from getting kicked in the ass…)
Bush’s successor, Obama, left in place the former’s policies, albeit in a more pleasingly modulated tone.
At some point the American people will come to terms with the need to “be realistic and demand the impossible”: to end the duopoly before it ends us.
On the New York Times, I order comments by votes. On gocomics, they’re in chronological order, so we can’t see how popular each one is, but a LOT look like the comments when Dowd writes. Dowd said Trump was so bad, everyone had to vote for Secretary Clinton in spite of her flaws. All the most popular comments were, ‘Dowd MUST be fired immediately. St Hillary has absolutely no flaws. every one of those so-called “flaws” is just a lie by the Republicans.’
Hillary figures the ’64 Johnson ads against Goldwater are pure gold. They worked in ’64 and they’ll work just as well or better in ’16. And she gets a lot of them for free from the MSM, not as opinion but as fact (even when Snopes says those ‘facts’ are false).
One cannot judge Trump by his words (one can judge those Republican primary voters who voted for those words, and that’s scary enough). Trump has slain more hobgoblins than Gandalf (of course, Gandalf slew fairy-tale hobgoblins, while Trump slew Emerson hobgoblins). We know Trump is vehemently against renewable energy, he’s fought it tooth and nail, and one must fear he’d continue to do so as president. But he constantly contradicts himself on military policy. Will he nuke the Daesh? Sounded like it, but no actions to validate the threat, plus LOTS of ‘The US must not engage in any military action where it isn’t sure of victory. The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were all big mistakes.’ And, ‘I will not go to war with Russia. If Russia wants the Balitcs, Russia can have the Baltics.’
Johnson, while running those ads against Goldwater (just like the Hillary ad against Trump in the cartoon), said he would NOT get the US involved in a hopeless war in East Asia. The bandido El BJ lied. Secretary Redbeard has promised, and her actions prove she’ll keep her promise, that as soon as she takes office, she’ll liberate Syria and Russia from their evil dictators. So at least St Redbeard is telling the truth, unlike Johnson, even as she runs Johnson’s ads.
And most of the voters are buying her ads.And asking for seconds.
(538 says her lead is dropping slightly, but she’s still almost certain to win.)
What are you trying to tell us? 🙁
Well, if Ms Clinton – who is so good at keeping her promises – indeed promises to bomb the shit out of Syria (and Russia and China ?) using a measured tone, then I might have to rethink my political stance….
Henri
Do tell.
I wouldn’t want the good Ms Clintonr to think me tone deaf, mein verehrter Lehrer – although when the bombs start dropping I may well become deaf to more than tone… 😉
Henri