Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:08:33 PM
No matter what happens, we'll have Mark Steyn to make us laugh. Then again, he could get deported.
From the Corner last night, Mark Steyn's take:
The Barack Obama Lack-Of-Variety Show [Mark Steyn]
For
what it's worth, I don't think the night worked for him. The last time
anyone did this — Ross Perot — it was so weird a world unto itself
(strange-looking guy with pie charts) that, beached between Cybill and Murphy Brown
(or whatever it was back then), it had a kind of integrity and
distinctiveness. This time round, The O Show followed by the Phillies
followed by Jon Stewart cumulatively undermined the candidate.
For a start, the show itself was slick only in a drearily generic
way. The waving wheat and music made it seem like a standard campaign
commercial, only longer — "It's Morning, Noon And Night In America,"
which is a big enough problem thanks to the media's Obama cultists
without the candidate himself piling on. As for the King Barack Meets
[Insert Name Of Downtrodden Subject Here] stuff, aside from the fact
that I don't recognize the hellhole this country apparently is, there's
something faintly ridiculous in doing it in the middle of the Phillies
winning the World Series. Maybe on Super Bowl Sunday, instead of Janet
Jackson's wardrobe malfunctioning, Obama could come out and interview
people about how our entire rotten society is malfunctioning. And then The Daily Show kibbitzing stepped all over the infomercial even more.
This is an amazing race. The incumbent president has approval
ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus. The
economy is supposedly on the brink of global Armageddon. McCain has
only $80 million to spend, while Obama's burning through $600 mil as
fast as he can, and he doesn't really need to spend a dime given the
wall-to-wall media adoration. And tonight Chris Matthews' doctors
announced that his leg tingle has metastasized leaving his entire body
like a vibrating cellphone whose ringtone is locked on "I'm In Love,
I'm In Love, I'm In Love, I'm In Love, I'm In Love With A Wonderful
Guy."
And yet an old cranky broke loser is within two or three points of the King of the World. Strange.