It seems that whatever your personal sense of who “won” last night’s debate (on “points” or what have you), McCain did not wipe the hall at Hofstra with Obama’s dismembered corpse, and by that measure failed to drag his campaign out of the gutter. That should lead one to expect his campaign to go into crisis mode such that no tactic is off limits, and unsurprisingly there are already signs of just that. Via TPM readers we have reports of two new McCain robocalls running in multiple states: one questions Obama and the Dems want to keep us safe, and the other informs voters that Obama worked closely with “domestic terrorist” Ayers. Here’s hoping it’s too late for this to do anything but make McCain look worse.
While trying to find a place to have dinner tomorrow night, I discovered an awesome blog. The Eaten Path features gorgeous food-photography, thoughtful, well-written reviews, a blog template that includes a Piggly Wiggly, and a whole series on a road trip designed around eating barbecue at fifteen restaurants between Washington, DC and Austin, TC. The guy has even been to Family Pie Shop. What more could you possibly hope to find in a blog?
Tomorrow is my birthday, and we’ll be driving up to Seal Beach to dine at Beachwood BBQ, in large part due to this review (and this beer menu). We would normally do something fancier, but so many of our attempts to have a nice meal in Orange County have met with disappointment due to relatively average food being sold at exceptional prices. I’m stoked, because I don’t believe another Family Pie Shop patron would lead me astray.
Here is something we haven’t seen in a few months: evidence of John McCain doing the right thing. Here is video (from TPM, via Obsidian Wings) of McCain backing his supporters off of the “I’m terrified of Barack Hussein Obama” rhetoric.
This is clearly the right thing to do, ethically. But I’m interested in whether others think it’s politically motivated. To me, it seems like a net loss politically. Sure, on the one hand you gain because you seem less like a despicable hate monger. But on the other, you had a lot of crazy people really fired up, and it seems like they’re going to feel jerked around. One day you want us to think he’s a terrorist, and on the other he’s just a good guy with whom you have some disagreements. “WTF, John?,” ask the crazies, who in their confusion just stay home on election night. So I think it’s doubly impressive, because I was beginning to think that McCain was incapable of thinking of any good beyond his own election to the presidency.
Anyone else see this differently?
