You've got to know that this Presidential campaign approach something close to the bottom when John McCain can be mentioned in the same sentence as Kathy Griffin...and Griffin comes out looking far better for the comparison. Griffin is at least a comedian, so looking and acting ridiculous in order to garner a few laughs is her stock in trade. McCain is trying to present himself as a serious candidate for President...and he's the one getting the laughs, though for all the wrong reasons. I've never seen Griffin's show, My Life on the D-List...and I frankly can't think of a reason I ever would. I'm not a big fan of her humor, but she does have her moments
I'm really NOT a fan of John McCain, because his humor is both unintentional and disturbingly pathetic. What he sees as "using humor" to make the point the Barack Obama is, in his mind at least, unqualified to be President, falls flat on any conceivable level. What McCain sees as "humor" is insulting, pathetic, and demeaning to Obama, the American Sheeple, and our political process. It attempts to reduce political debate to the level of crude racial stereotypes (Yeah, try and convince me that the juxtaposition of an African-American man with two White women doesn't have racial overtones? Right....) and the fear and reaction those stereotypes produce. Sure, McCain and his Brownshirts will deny this all day long, but you can't tell me that they aren't intelligent enough to know EXACTLY the impact that sort of imagery produces in an electorate conditioned to react rather than reflect. If there's ANYTHING that rules in American politics, it's emotion and ignorance...and McCain's storm troopers seem to be (too) closely attuned to that reality.
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to think that we're capable of an intelligent, lucid, reasoned debate on the issues facing this country today (I know; call me a dreamer...or an idealist...or just (&^%$#@ stupid and unrealistic.). It seems clear, though, that the McCain campaign has divined that their man cannot compete on the issues...perhaps because he really can't. What we're left with, then, is a campaign consisting primarily of insults, innuendo, character assassination and inflammatory racial stereotypes. Somewhere, Jesse Helms is smiling....
WE DESERVE BETTER....
