Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain and Obama in Bizarro World
[via Superman and Bizarro Jerry]
You could construct a Seinfeld Bizarro World about this election. Where everything is the opposite.
It starts with a highly qualified candidate running against someone who really is not ready for primetime. That would be Gore/McCain and Obama/Bush.
Then you take a close election that is decided by a third party. That would be the Supremes for Bush and Pelosi for Obama, demanding superdelegates vote with the party despite many preferring Hillary; in addition, adding to the Democrats self-inflicted bizarro replication of their previous experience: Pelosi and Reed would not allow Florida back into the mix after breaking party rules, even though it was clear that this was too important to play petty martinet given the disenfranchisement of Florida voters in a previous national election. Two winners who won but lost: Gore/Hillary.
You have a maverick, individual thinker who is old, and a relatively young, cut and paste conventional politico on the other end. That would be McCain and Obama.
You have Obama choosing an old Washington hand as VP after decrying that “oldness”. You have McCain choosing an inexperienced hand after decrying that quality. So the election will present the following bizarro choice: an Obama/McCain-old politics replica vs a McCain/Obama-like unknown.
Obama, arguably brighter than McCain, makes the conventional choice for a VP. McCain makes a brilliant choice.