This is what the wizzened, balding John McCain will be up against: Obama floating over all issues in a fog of soaring “change” rhetoric. He is perfect for guilty white liberals. Being for him can absolve them of the sin of racism. He is perfect: half-Black, half-Muslim, half-Third World. Look at the faces at an Obama rally. You have not seen such orgasmic looks since Hitler rode by crowds in an open limo. Obama can give MEANING to their pathetic lives. Any effort to pin him down on particular issues will seem impolite. The media has no interest in his birth to a Muslim father, his friendship with a ruthless tribal leader in Kenya, or his rise through the Cook County political snake-pit. His inexperience is turned into an advantage (he’s not part of that “Washington crowd”). If the ruthless Hillary machine and devious Bill cannot damage him, imagine the “Where’s-the-outrage?” fate of John MdCain — especially when McCain condemns “negative campaigning” and the media is at best indifferent to “issues.” Obama is a secular saviour at a time when the Left uses politics as its religion. Obama is the Fred Astaire of politics, the Black JFK, seen in martyred retrospect, not as Nixon saw him in 1960, Hillary is a plodder by comparison. She knows the words, but only Obama hears the music. McCain is not as agile as Hillary. Obama does not have to say anything. He just has to stand on the same stage with McCain for comparison purposes. Obama is tall, stylish, graceful, quick, and verbally agile. McCain is short, old, cranky, ill-tempered, and a hero from a war that is as remote to most voters as The Somme. He will be swamped.
