This diary probably won't make the rec list because it will duplicate what a lot of you are probably thinking and feeling, and won't offer much by way of new insights. I just want to write this, and get it out there.
I am SO happy this morning to have discovered the Keating 5 website put up by the Obama campaign.
This website is 100%, lock-solid, gold-plated proof positive that Barack Obama and his team are absolutely brilliant political strategists playing the highest-stakes, most ass-kicking game of quid pro quo in the history of politics. More happy ranting below...
John McSame and his crony wingnuts say that they want to change the subject from the current financial crisis. They decide to go negative. They pull out the Ayers nonsense and Sarah "Idiot" "Attack Dog" "Wingnut Zealot" McPalin throws it into the ring on her stump speeches.
The Obama camp's response? Nothing short of "GUESS WHAT?? WATCH THIS." They don't even have to say the requisite and always welcome "F*** you John." Because McSame has been sweating, praying, hoping against all hope that Obama wouldn't "go there" on Keating 5.
Leave the past in the past, the McSame campaign says. His surrogates have played out that meme to no benefit. McPalin tried to play it in the debate. And what did Biden say?
"PAST IS PROLOGUE!!!!!!!!!!!"
to which I will add:
"BITCH!"
And so it is. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Obama was keeping the Keating 5 cards close to his chest and that he determined that a Keating 5 attack would be solely conditional upon the direction John McSame chose to take.
McSame -- McPalin too -- won't play fair on debating the real issues. Because their positions are completely untenable. I truly think that Obama and Biden were ready for a real, substantive debate. I truly think that Obama would much rather have shredded McSame up intellectually -- to show through meaningful discourse that the would-be emperor has no clothes.
But McSame and McPalin wouldn't do it...
So here we have the Keating 5 quid pro quo. It will be effective. It is the ultimate blowback. McSame has nothing to defend himself. If he had truly changed his ways as the result of his official rebuke, perhaps. Perhaps if he were a true maverick. But he isn't. He's a decrepit worn out patrician lying sack of shit who is finally going to get the biggest come-uppance possible.
And I -- like all of you -- will fire up a bag of popcorn, sit back and watch McSame and his campaign crumble and burn.