Dull/Excite versus Excite/Dull
U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A!
The least anticipated presidential nomination speech concludes, overshadowed by the curiosity of the vice-presidential speech, and it did indeed live up to its anti-climactic promise. All the sort of chatter of John McCain’s luckluster speech has seemed to bandy about the realm of the Code Pink disruptors, or over to the weird “Walter Reed Middle School” fracus, but one thing popped out at me as rather surreal. Skip to 8:46 and watch the conclusion of John McCain’s speech. John McCain entreats the crowd to various causes and “Fight with Me” “Stand Up!” and on and on. Simply put: Why? It is a stylistic decision to get bum-rumped by crowd noise, but it’s a stylistic decision that doesn’t really make any sense to me. Though, some items of the speech really did miss any mark — wherein John McCain entreated the American public to greater community service, such as feeding stray puppies and “teaching illiterate adults to read”. I cannot quite tell if that was a slam against Obama’s “Community Organizing” by way of suggesting personal initiative instead of their vision of petitioners for bigger Gummint — ie: “Organize Yourselves!.
Let it be, I suppose. U!S!A! U!S!A!
Sarah Palin has now been flown right back to Alaska, where she will reportedly be placed into deep freeze for much of the remainder of the campaign. I do not think such a feat is possible. The good news is that Barack Obama would defeat Sarah Palin in a presidential contest, just as he would defeat John McCain. The Organized Chaos Theory for Sarah Palin is that she brings a sustained deep commitment from narrow targets, some of the narrow targets out in the Michigan and Ohio hintherlands, while John McCain will have to garner an, albeit tepid, broad support of the public at large — POW, “Mavrick“, “Country First” safe and sound choice. Palin made her splash, and the negativities have to be safe-guarded while the positives have to be amplified. My gut tells me that this is a tight-rope walk which is going to end badly for McCain — I gather the “tepid” McCain has to be whetted to some feel of excitement and the excitement of Palin has to be damped down and grounded — the narrow audience expanded– but who knows? The “Composite View of What Voters take from Personalities” may yet yield to Dull / Excite over Excite / Dull. Wait a week to see what the numbers show, and then just let this thing drift to the “debates”. The good thing about the conventions being pushed back to around Labor Day is that, for the most part, the General Election has all around been truncated to a more proper shortened length.