(Up Here) American Power Shift 4 of 4

 John might make a go of it yet.  He seems like a nice guy.  Never mind that over four years no more than a couple dozen people will ever get to know one way or the other.  It’s the appearance of likability that matters.  Americans are not Russians.  Russians will elect a despicable prick any day of the week.  Americans have to like a pricks to elect him.

Johnny Mac’s big talk contained no surprises, I think.  What was a surprise to me was how really bad a speech it was.  It was incoherent.  It was disjointed and frequently self-contradictory.  (Up here, we are qualified to trash American political speeches.  We say these kinds of things about our own politicians all the time.  Up here, we have guys running for high office who have no useful handle on the language at all, and that don’t even slow ‘em down.)

McCains’s oratory actually made me think of fireworks.  The spasms of applause were pretty to watch, but none of the points he made were solidly connected to any of the other points he was making.  There was no story.  The theme was consistent, though.  The theme was, in three parts: You’re right to be scared.  Stick to your knitting.  Trust me.

I start to wonder whether the McCain speech was telling me anything about the McCain brain.  Then I remembered that a president’s intelligence is not important.  It’s been proven.

A couple of weeks ago, I thought I heard Obama tell an actual story.  His narrative was a guide toward a thematic conclusion: The blanket is torn but don’t be afraid because we can fix it together.

Maybe I just heard what I wanted to hear, or maybe the Obamacrats paid for better writers than the Mcpublicains.

Later,
–B–