Posted by
beltway girl on Friday, August 01, 2008 12:30:11 AM
The Dems, riding the crest of recent Republican failures, are finally moving into the wipe-out phase. And if they're not careful, they're going to end up as the political equivalent of The Happy Tree Friends. The Happy Tree Friends, little animated characters that are constantly getting into bizarre situations well beyond their expectations and means, and along the way, all brands of senseless gore (pardon the pun) abound.
No offshore drilling. Hardly an easy proposition for the average voter to accept, but the Pelosis and Obamas keep demanding a pristine coastline while gas is four dollars a gallon. For anyone who reads beyond the NYT and WSJ, Katrina should come to mind, and more obscure discourse on that topic that most notably included detailed discussions of how environmentalists were actually to blame for the ensuing Katrina carnage. Even if not completely to blame, they certainly played a very significant role.
If the offshore drilling isn't enough to make you wonder if the Dems are going Happy Tree Friends, consider Obama's "serious" talks with Governor Tim Kaine.
Tim Kaine, a Virginia governor of a handful of years, has no foreign policy experience. None.
Now, we know that Senator Obama and Governor Kaine have a great rapport. Senator Obama really likes Tim Kaine. That's delightful, but even if President Obama brought every troop home from Iraq the day he took office-- and that's not going to happen-- he has noted that he'd be committed to further action in Afghanistan.
Okay, who exactly is going to preside over this? Where's the foreign policy wonk on this ticket? Doesn't this party, considering our global position, think we need one?
Now, if this isn't enough, consider our "Celebrity" week. John McCain released an ad warning viewers that qualifications are more important than charisma and celebrity appeal. Obama is a celebrity, while he is the one prepared to lead.
The response? Well, the ad pictured Britney and Paris. The Huffington Post said that this conjures up images of the Blonde Bimbo and Harold Ford, and that it's a racist ad.
The Happy Tree Friends music is starting to play.
Obama, in the meantime, has had the Ludacris flare-up, and has somehow managed to inject a comment about how he, Obama, doesn't happen to look like the presidents on the bills now in circulation.
No one looks like the presidents on those bills now, Senator Obama.
And so, as we dash towards the finish line, we have Dems that won't drill when gas is over four dollars a gallon. We have prospects of an Obama-Kaine ticket. We have a perfectly legitimate political ad being maligned as racist by a commentator who is employing logic that is so tortured, it ought to be at Gitmo. And we have an election coming up.
And we have the Happy Tree Friends.