Saturday, August 30, 2008
A HEARTBEAT AWAY
Somewhere, Joe Biden is smiling and giving us a wink.
The McCain pick for Veep is surprising, in a way, and not.
Surprising in that it comes from under the deck. A surprise card.
Not, in that we have another cynical McCain pander. A pattern over the last year.
Gail Collins does a good job today:
I like the image, all hard on the outside and very soft inside.
A spunky soccer mom. A church lady.
It is the church lady that I see. That determined chin. The defiant glare. The judging eyes.
A creationist. Belief the global warming is not human caused.
Anyway, I feel detached from it.
I worried a bit that Biden would have trouble debating her. He couldn't seem to be bullying. But they are old hands at this. He is partly southern gentleman of course. Delaware is half deep south and he has seen the scene.
Then I worried that this would coalesce the right. But that would happen anyway.
The scariest part of it is the get-the-vote-of-the-right-at-any-cost cynicism of the move is the successor issue.
A heatbeat away.
I am not going to dwell on it.
I think this is a good project for Hillary to take on. Woman talk and all.
Gail has made a good start.
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