Comments on: Rundle08: Lost in syllables, Obama can’t make McCain pay

By: Sam Spackman

Sam Spackman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Please Guy, the whole ‘rah rah, Obama is a weak democrat who doesn’t have the balls to take on the GOP’ schtick is getting old. Surely there are other stories to tell.

By: GP

GP — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Lovin’ your work Guy. But I couldn’t help but notice that this article was written in a cafe and not in a bar of some sort. Something we should know?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

One hopes that sometime between now and November 4, the swing voters will stop looking into Sarah Palin’s liquid brown eyes, forget about moose-dressing, and realise that she’s a Republican, and a sub-qualified one at that, and remember that eight years of Republican leadership have served only to embroil them in a Middle Eastern quagmire and make them poorer and more polluted and generally much worse off than they were in 2000, and that this holds no matter what their opinion of Hockey Moms or The Gays or fetuses or the Bible, and that the most sensible reaction to all of the above is to… elect a Democrat.

One hopes.

By: Carol Bruce

Carol Bruce — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Thank you so much Guy Rundle. Just love your witty articles. Look forward to them every day. Keep up the good work.

By: Cavitation

Cavitation — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

You are probably right that McCain has a good chance of winning. But remember that Obama has raised a LOT of money, which he will be spending closer to the election.

But it might be a lucky break if McCain wins, since the US economy and foreign policy will need a lot of work to get right, and a lot of taxpayers money spent doing so. With McCain as president, the Republicans will need to share the bad karma that will come from attempting this. It will also be sweet revenge if the Republican president has to increase taxes and cut defence spending next year to pay the piper... They made the mess, and they get to clean it up.

As for Palin, there are plenty of scandals involving her that are currently being sat upon (note that the Trooper-Gate scandal is being run by Alaskan Republicans). Once she becomes Vice-President, these Republicans can just let the scandals run loose. She will be forced to resign, and McCain can then get Lieberman as his VP, as he always wanted. The Democrats in the house will probably confirm an ex-Democrat as Vice-President in these circumstances, and the religious right wont be able to veto it, this time...

By: Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

As ever, solid dramaturgy from the man who would be the Virgil of Political Comedy.

By: Faz

Faz — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I visited the US last year for the first time, so I’m no expert, but I suspect that the Dems can’t push a class-based campaign because IT IS America. They probably think it would scare the shyte out of the horses and I suspect they’re right. It’s a cultural thing.

Like here: Labor will get some traction out of calling Turnbull a silvertail even though Rudd is in the same league wealth-wise. It’s not logical, it’s cultural.

By: David Sanderso

David Sanderso — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Obama’s campaign is not perfect but there is an hysterical edge to Rundle’s condemnation of it. He seems to one of the bed-wetters that one of the senior managers of the campaign has been referring to. Suffice to say that Gallup today has Obama ahead 47-45 and that the poll movements looks likely to go further his way over the coming week.

By: Dr Harvey M Tarvydas

Dr Harvey M Tarvydas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The ‘loser political professionals that sit at the centre of the Democratic party like heart cancer’ are known very clever Republican undercover agents well and truly ensconced and just look how successful they have been. Psychologically that is easier to understand than the reality. If this explanation could get ‘rumour status’ traction then that group may come under serious real scrutiny. A bit of psychopathic technology is needed.