As my week in New York City draws to close I'm relieved to be headed back home, both to see my family and to get away from the non-stop election coverage that I masochistically subject myself to.
Here's a thought that I am sure is shared by many other Americans: I am sick and tired of "Joe the Plumber" and other complete fictions of imaginary middle America cooked up by campaign managers. Politics from any ideological standpoint can become extremely tedious, but watching the McCain-Palin ticket wage a campaign of fear and whining during this last road trip through Florida, it strikes me that the Republicans are driving the political discourse through the floor, as thought median voting age in this country were 9. This is doubly offensive given the extreme economic problems the country is going through.
No wonder so many people are jumping ship. Whatever position or party one supports, the tactics of fear and the incredibly low level of political messaging coming from the incumbent camp drives home the point that the American public seems ready for change.
It's ironic that, full of pro-Democrat partisan blindness, you didn't even take the necessary step of actually reading your source material.
Here's what it says about Barack Obama: "Senator McCain wants to defend tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." Bob, THAT is a scare tactic, claiming McCain wants American jobs sent abroad. That's YOUR man, Bob, not the Republicans. Yet not a word of criticism about it!
On the other hand, your source says this about McCain: "Mr. McCain started his day at a lumber yard in Ormond Beach, where he stepped up his criticism of the Bush administration by pounding the lectern and demanding that the government support his plan to buy troubled mortgages from homeowners. 'And why isn’t the Treasury secretary not ordering them to do that?” Mr. McCain asked, referring to Henry M. Paulson Jr.'"
So McCain is ATTACKING Republicans and their current president. Hardly seems surprising, then, that some of them are rejecting him, does it? In fact, Republicans have been worried that McCain is not conservative enough ever since he got the nomination! Your attempt to say they now dislike their own party is fundamentally in accurate and the obvious result of your rabid partisan dogma.
Maybe, since you aren't even a full American citizen but have divided loyalties, you should refrain from pretending otherwise. It's rather unseemly. And, at the very least, read your own source material and get your facts right before you spew out your partisan hatred.
I can't speak for Bob, who is on currently on a plane back to London right now, but I think that McCain is a very decent man of admirable accomplishments who is running a very poor campaign. I think that's Bob's point. He's disappointed in how McCain's campaign is failing to live up to the qualities of the man.
We deserve a higher level of political discourse instead of calling each other terrorists.
Also, probably the 18th time I have had to write this, but Bob was born in the Bronx and is a proud U.S. citizen. However that is completely irrelevant to one's right to express an opinion about anybody in any country.