Coming Soon, To A Town Hall Near You!!

I have been known to be grossly mistaken, but the prospect of a series of McCain-Obama town hall-style debates on its face seems like it would stand to benefit Obama immensely. One would think that the McCain campaign would want nothing to do with literal face-to-face confrontations, I mean look at their faces! Perhaps this is mere fantasy, but I could very easily see Obama running rhetorical and oratorical circles around McCain, at which point Senator Bomb Bomb might just try and deck his opponent. McCain is a ticking time-bomb and if his campaign knows anything about anything, I would hope for their sake that the good Senator is undergoing some serious psychoanalysis. To reference Seinfeld, I’m not talking about seeing a therapist once a week; I’m talking about going to Vienna and being constantly monitored around the clock. Even then, I still believe there is a strong possibility of him short-circuiting and reverting back to being a P.O.W. in Hanoi. I’m not trying to make light of McCain’s rather serious psychological problems (and then of course, there’s also the age problem), I’m merely trying to illustrate just what a dangerous individual he is and subsequently how even more dangerous he would be in an office of the oval variety. McCain obviously has the gift of gab and what I imagine is a very commanding martial presence, yet if a Pepsi challenge is going to be made of this contest – I simply can’t foresee people thinking McCain tastes better.

More on McCain… He is now attempting, a) to distance himself from Bush and b) to make it seem as though he is Mr. Environmentally friendly by asserting his ‘belief’ that greenhouse gas emissions must be limited, yet out of all the 450+ legislators in the House and Senate, he ranked dead last in 2007 according to the League of Conservation Voters' National Environmental Scorecard (see page 14).
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200802/NAT20080229a.html
I don’t like the concept of “cap and trade” either, although I’m aware that all three candidates are in favor of it. I realize that a certain degree of pandering to the corporations is necessary to stay financially competitive in these campaigns, although Obama has generated an astonishing amount of small contributions, yet there is no longer any time to be permitting unabashed polluters to continue chipping away at our fragile environment.

I’m happy to say that The New York Times at least alluded to McCain’s “mixed record,” but for virtually every single issue McCain raises, he has at one point said one thing and done the exact opposite and this must continue to be driven home. The man is NOT the maverick, straight-talkin’ sonuva gun he says he is and there is ample evidence to back that up. If Clinton is going to stay in this race, she must join forces with Obama and they must expose these blatant canards. Howard Dean and the DNC can’t do it all by themselves; there are two Democrats in the spotlight and they have every opportunity to try and keep knocking McCain off his high horse.