First, the economic crisis is serious. People could be out of work in a severe depression. Unfortunately, the media will not report that both Bush and McCain proposed years ago reforms that would prevented the crisis from occurring. And that the crisis is the result of Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd, and Chuck Schumer’s work, along with Barack Obama’s.
It’s why Obama has halted his self-destruct, and will likely win the Presidency, because of the economic crisis. People blame Bush and thus, McCain.
McCain’s gamble is to suspend his campaign, call for bipartisanship, and challenge Obama to put country first. Obama’s response is to go to business as usual.
Which is the big crisis facing our elites — they cannot respond to the “end of normal” as Wretchard put it. Contrary to Cedarford’s assumption, nuking of NYC or DC means 3-6 million dead, economy globally in crisis (as all container trade is shut down) and another attack unless examples are made, to make the prospect too horrible.
Elites will not want to “nuke the wrong country” but unless ALL possible suspects are nuked the attacks will continue. And the Muslim world will have to be wiped out in pure survival. With the leaders being not the elites but the thieves and con men of Ballard’s “Empire of the Sun” prison camps. Men who at least know how to survive.
McCain’s big gamble is to paint Obama as unable to respond to the economic crisis. He will require a wing man of the 527′s to ruthlessly attack Obama on this issue. Painting Obama as weak, ineffectual, and clueless, while McCain acts decisively to stem the crisis.
Obama is a creature of the “normal” where things don’t change. Where if you make the wrong decision, NYC is not nuked, there are not 3-7 million dead, the most important city in America dead, and fear and anger running so hot that people will do anything and everything to survive. He and the elites cannot fathom the thin edge between prosperity and pure survival.
He still might win. But do Dems want to own the “Nuking of NYC?” I don’t think so.
