I'm actually laughing

[silverthorne]

At McCain's 'last chance' add, AKA: 'I'm Joe The Plumber'

Every single one of the 'Joes' is white, obviously upper middle class according to their dress, make-up, and attitude (I have to work harder to pay taxes? TEH HORROR!!!!), and my age (39) or older.

...Way to limit your target group there, son. I hope sheer numbers of all the groups you conveniently left out of that add over-run your little party at the polls tomorrow.

I'll be glad when this is over. I'm still hoping vervently for Barak to win (although then I'll be scared to death for him for his whole term and beyond).

PS: If you didn't already, make sure you vote tomorrow.

ETA: OH, no, wait, they have a token 'well-off black man' shoved right in the middle of the long string of white folks.

Yeah, sorry if I sound a bit bitter/cynical.

Comments

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

I hate that ad too. And, considering how the "real" Joe the Plumber is a tax evader and not even a licensed plumber, it's all a bit misleading and stupid.

Dear baby Jesus-God, PLEASE let Barack Obama win today. PLS PLS PLS. Sarah Palin scares the pee-water out of me, and I really don't want her anywhere near the Legislative branch.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Sarah is...backwards. In so many ways. And one of the things I dislike most about her/her spin doctors, is that for the voters who don't look beyond the surface image, she can be passed off as 'appealing' to a certain demographic, between the 'rugged' lifestyle (but she still cleans up pretty), the son with downs syndrome (that she still has time for even though she's a politician, and oh my isn't it hard having a handicapped child?), and very tolerant of her daughter getting pregnant and married very early in life (what a loving, understanding mom!).

Except, first point is; not every (or, quite frankly, most) 'country type folk' is a hick that doesn't know what lipstick is, and there are plenty of 'city gals' that hunt and fish on their days off; it's admirable (that's not the word I want, but the closest I can find), but not a mark of sainthood to have a disabled child (and honestly? I think she'd do her son better by actually concentrating on taking care of him rather than running/helping to run a country, but what do I know?), and if she were a celebrity, or even an everyday mom who had the bad luck to get turned into a press story because of her daughter's antics, she'd be getting called an idiot or worse for not keeping a better hand on her daughter.

And that's all before you start digging and see who she's connected to, the laws and bills she's passed in her own state, her not so hidden religious right beliefs, and so forth. And yeah, I don't want her hands anywhere near the presidency; we have enough problems with big business and religion trying to run the country instead of common sense and need of the people in the first place. They don't need the extra 'endorsement' of being in the proverbial driver's seat. :/

Their whole campaign has been a series of 'make the other guy look as horrific as possible and blow sunshine up the asses of the people we think can win by fair or foul, and hopefully without them looking too closely at us'. I've never liked those tactics in the first place, and I like them even less in the hands of the current folks using them.

And not that I've incoherently ranted for several minutes, I'm going to go have some coffee so that I can make more sense.

Or something.