Monday, August 18, 2008

Suprise! What's Bursting Out Of Your Chest?

How do I know I've gone cynical? When I start comparing the VP announcement to the surprise of a chest burster.

FiveThirtyEight has an interesting view of what both candidates face in nominating and the timing of those nominations.

I got pushed into this frame of mind myself this morning when a family friend from New Mexico called my wife this morning. She was having a fit over the idea that today's campaign schedule had Richardson and Clinton in Albuquerque & Espanola , very obviously mending fences after the primary, and stumping for Obama. She's not a PUMA - She's an ex-pat Labour Brit - and hates Richardson with a cold fury because of his pandering to rural school districts, delaying consolidation and hindering opportunities for students, in the last state election. She's definitely in the minority opinion of Richardson - of course, where she lives, she's lucky her rural neighbors don't take potshots at her house because they swing Democrat in a 4-to-1 Republican district. Her neighbors simply dislike Richardson because he's . . brown. What they think of Obama you might guess.

But I've personally reached the point where my anticipation matches the surprise of seeing Alien for the 23rd time when Kane starts choking and convulsing.

I don't think anyone outside of 1-2 people in each campaign know who the VP picks are for their bosses - that is if there's even been a choice by Obama or McCain.

11 comments:

iamcoyote said...

Funny, I was just gonna say that it seemed like the 'nets were holding their bloggity breath in anticipation of the announcement. Is the RNC this weekend? I'd want to hijack that, midweek, before they could get some talking points up and running, so Obama could dominate the news cycle again.

idiosynchronic said...

They are. I'm not. We know it's coming - sooner or later. We know it will be some sort of middle-of-the-road sop to the DLC and moderates. Yes, even Richardson is.

The RNC starts Sept 2nd, after the DNC the last week of August, the 25th. McCain has exactly the advantage you were hoping for in Obama.

iamcoyote said...

Ah, so they both will announce this week then, and Obama's hoping for McCain to go first. Oh well.

iamcoyote said...

Oops, TPM says that McCain is going to announce after the dem convention. I guess all the mystery keeps the press interested, huh?

Seven of Six said...

They keep saying that McLame will announce on Aug. 29th. That's McCryptkeeper's birthday and the day Katrina came ashore...

Anjha said...

They also say that on the 29th McCain is having a 10,000 person rally in Ohio where he will announce.

10,000 people will show up to see McCain? For real? How do we know it won't be one of those CG events? We should look for the 5th row to be a repeat of the 1st - the same people wearing the same clothes.

Out of the final four I hope its Biden. Bayh, Kaine and Sebilious do nothing for me. Nothing at all.

Biden would run circles around anyone on foreign policy and other issues; he is like an encyclopedia.

Some say, though, that it will still be some big surprise. Someone no one is thinking of like Gore. That would be a massive demotion for Gore though - would it not? I highly doubt anything at all like that will happen.

If it is Bayh I think I will need to take a month off the nets and regroup. Bayh is like white bread...untoasted. Mushy and bland.

Blech.

I might have to take time off anyway because I am becoming awfully cranky. When the only thing that I want to say to most of the people who are posting is "fuck you" - it might be good to take a rest.

Seven of Six said...

Hey folks, I'll be out a while... Mom goes in for surgery tomorrow and I'm left to care for both parents.

Anjha said...

Oh, sorry SoS.

Good wishes to you and Mom. Let us know - if you can - how the surgery goes.

idiosynchronic said...

Our blessings go with you and your mom, Seven. Email us if it's faster than posting.

Seven of Six said...

Mom came out of hip surgery fine.

iamcoyote said...

Good to hear, SoS! Thanks for the update.