I didn’t manage to catch up on my writing till now and I’m surprised that, inspite of a few weeks gap, nothing has occured during these past few weeks that made me unduly concerned. The McCain campaign does not seem to have any of the guile, agility or the pure decepetive Rovian brilliance. But mark my words, they’ll keep trying to come up with a knock-out punch in these last days and it’s pretty clear that they will stick to their ‘scare’ tactics as it’s too late to come up with a new campaign strategy.
Most of what I wrote in my previous article came true but I think it is partly the McCain campaign’s stupidity in not being very innovative in their attacks and partly Obama’s fortune that the Economic crisis has continued it’s headline-hogging, panic inducing free-fall which made the ‘character’ attacks against Obama seem irrelevant and a distraction at best. If it was a time when the American people were enjoying the fruits of a booming economy like 2004 then some of the mud thrown by the McCain campaign would have stuck and national security would have been a higher concern. Nationalism would also have been a bigger factor but with their minds numbed with fear by the economic situation the ‘fear factor’ about Obama that the McCain campaign is trying to generate has no effect.
Here’s my take on McCain’s last ditch efforts which I talked about before but I’ll elaborate in this and coming articles. I stil think it is very important that the Obama campaign not get even a wee bit complacent as last impressions matter as much as the first, especially in an election (remember Kerry again).
1) Hello again, James Wright. Sorry to keep you waiting so long but we had to wait till the right moment to bring you in.
2) Hello again, Bin Laden. If you can hear us (we certainly didn’t try very hard to find ya) then do come up with a tape again, like you did in 2004. It’ll guarantee you four more years of safety as we will not bother to attack you in Pakistan as that country is our strong ‘ally’ (any country with a nuclear bomb is, which is why many countries are trying to get one).
3) Finally, sweet revenge on the economy, let’s drop a bomb on how Obama and the dem congress is responsible for the state of the economy (hey, we are the masters of the deception campaign).