We have arrived at the first point in this presidential election, since Obama became the presumptive nominee, where if someone were to suggest we hold the election right now, I wouldn’t sign off.  Which is to say that John McCain has the edge right now — I won’t suggest that ten percent which is on the edge of the polls, but the three or four points … five? … sounds about right.  It’s the post-convention bounce, a strangle on the current media narrative — and a dejavu of past election seasons which have lead Obama partisans to a higher fret-level than they’ve had since going into the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.  It will either pass or it won’t pass.

I have come to a decision.  I am going to completely revamp my sidebar over there for the duration of this presidential campaign.  The three categories, a mass of anti-McCain materials, a mass of anti-Palin material, and a mass of Obama material.  At the moment the Palin section is more fun — we’ve had a compressed time-period to shift through her problems — and the Obama section is a bit unclear — I know a couple items I would toss up — the Jeremiah Speech, troubling politically perhaps, but it was the best and most thoughtful speech he’s given and I’m not always up to dissecting the voting populace’s opinion.  “Fight the Smears dot com”, clearly.  I’ll look around and find what I want, and be honest with myself.

Yes, yes, I am sure the McCain / Palin campaign is shaking in its boots at the news that the Skull/Bones blog is engaging in a sidebar of Democratic Party Hackdom.  Yes, yes, I am sure I will be able to persuade the multiple leaders of neo-nazi sects who have commented on this blog.  (Sigh.  I think that is one of the ways my blog is different from your blog.)  And the other six people who read this blog that generally agree with me will be oh so affected.  And there’s nothing more readable and exciting than stilted earnestness and that strident voice which is taking over here.

I don’t think I will be able to get down to thiss mini-project until Wednesday and Friday.  I state an avoidance over “Trooper-Gate” which, politically, has no legs over a two month period — easy to suggest Clinton’s “Trooper-Gate” and allege tossing up of mud and seeing if it sticks.  What I have in mind on the outset is:  Palin wearing the “Nowhere” t-shirt in advocating for the “Bridge to Nowhere”.  Related is the hypocritical anti-pork crusade of a mayor whose Alaska small town job was to slice into the federal budget, and whose state is the number one state for federal largesse.  This is sub-category number one for her.  Sub-category number two goes along the line of the video of Karl Rove’s comments on Tim Kaine, and her scuttled away from the media — replete with the McCain super-charge against the Media, and my resume alignment comparison with Obama.  Sub-category number three:  the Creationist, her pastors (not as racially loaded as Obama’s), and her Alaska Independence Party speach.  Notably absent from all of this — well, Levi Johnston is the sorriest man on the planet right now as he prepares for his shot-gun wedding.

McCain, from the top, I have two photographs which are automatics.  You know the two:  Hugging W, eating birthday cake during Katrina.  “That’s not change you can believe in.”  I also need to dredge up that Tennessee (or may have been a neighboring state) Straw-poll from 2006 where Bill Frist was casting about for votes, stacking the decks in his backyard, which McCain blunted by urging everyone to vote for Good Ol’ George Bush.  This is the clear thrust number one of this vaguely propagandaistic area.  The RNC Convention was surreal, a call to storm Washington, and I don’t know how many “in” party presidential candidates have ever been intellectually honest in promising a switch over from the previous president of the same party — I think 1896 may have been the last time that claim could have been made.  Beyond this, to tie in the Plutocracy: Phil Gramm’s “Nation of whiners”, McCain’s definition of rich.  Wander a bit into foreign policy:  “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.”

I suppose I could expediate this process by asking for a link and an image, but I’ll get around to it.

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