A subject I’ve largely avoided.
I was reading what David Foster Wallace had written in Rolling Stone about John McCain in 2000, and he seems to have had a pretty good opinion of the man as a man. A lot of people whose judgment I respect have made similar comments about having respect for McCain. Watching him in interviews of late, though, it sometimes seems as though he has finally sold his soul to the devil/RNC, has stopped bothering to try to sound fair or honest, and is simply going to do whatever is necessary to get into that office. Notably, he lied in his teeth on The View (which isn’t something that I normally watch, but they have a pretty big audience, I think) about the veracity of some of his negative advertising about Obama. Karl Rove, of all unexpected people, has stated that he’s gone too far.
It’s really strange to me how people will vote how they’ve always voted, and see just what they want to see, and hear just what they want to hear…issues, smissues: tell me whether or not you’re a dirty LIBERAL, that will decide whether or not I’m voting for you. (I’m sure there are people on the other side who vote party even when their candidate kinda sucks…in Canada, you get used to that, because if you let the other guys in, Bad Things can happen.)
I desperately hope that the numbers of new voters, both the young and the never-bothered-before, that Obama has energized and motivated to vote, will be enough to get someone who doesn’t terrify me into the Oval, for a change.