Time Is Of The Essence: Two Minute Warning
The Obama campaign should be thanking its lucky stars that Election Day is Tuesday, and that early voting has drawn large crowds whose ballots are already in the books.
If the election was held a week later, or even this coming Friday, O’s chances of being elected, which look pretty good right now, would diminish substantially.
Let me explain.
Readers know that I have a twisted fondness for right-wing radio, as the hosts have mastered the medium of the airwaves to a degree that their left-wing counterparts can’t approach, both in terms of entertainment value and effective propaganda delivery. But they’re getting so over the top vile that I can’t take anything but small doses during these closing days of the campaign.
However, yesterday I heard Monica Crowley, a nationally syndicated Westwood One host, put together what can only be described as a very effective summation to the jury as to why Obama would be a dangerous choice. Interweaving innuendo, half-truths, and a sprinkling of hard facts to keep her presentation credible, she made me, an active Obama supporter, question, if but for a split second, my own commitment.
And if I was one of the undecideds, or taking a courageous leap of faith towards Obama, her argument might have pulled me back, convincing me that a decaying terra firma would be more to my liking than the possibility of a leap onto a promising but unknown landscape.
The extra hour I gained this morning as the clocks were turned back here on the east coast is also an extra hour that the McCain campaign and its surrogates have to throw as many Hail Marys as possible before time expires.
Hopefully, John McCain’s no Doug Flutie.
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