It’s nice to see Hillary Clinton stumping for Obama and making up with Bill Richardson, even if it is all part of a quid pro quo to pay off her campaign debt. Ick.
Robert Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel spell it out for you:
…[T]his election features a stark ideological contrast. Although marketed as a trustworthy maverick, McCain accurately describes himself as a “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” and attests that “on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.” He is committed to the full Bush catastrophe: continued war in Iraq, more tax cuts for the wealthiest, more corporate trade deals, more deregulation, more hostility toward labor, more conservative social policies and reactionary judges. Indeed, he’s Bush on steroids. McCain seeks not only to privatize Social Security but also to unravel employer-based healthcare, leaving people to negotiate alone with insurance companies liberated from regulation. His bellicose posturing on Iran and Iraq is as disastrous as his pledge of impossibly deep cuts in domestic programs. He embraces the corporate economic and trade agenda that has so devastated the American middle class. If he is defeated, it will mark the end of the Reagan era.
I like it. John McCain: Committed to the Catastrophe. Let’s make bumper stickers.
I have a funny feeling that Barack Obama will pick Tim Kaine as his running mate on Wednesday night or sometime Thursday. Obama will be appearing on Wednesday in Martinsville, Virginia with senate candidate Mark Warner. Notice: no mention of Tim Kaine being in attendance, even though Kaine set the whole thing up. Here’s a key point:
Obama is expected to make stops in other parts of Virginia this week as well, though no locations have been announced.
Another stop might be in Richmond, where Gov. Kaine once served as mayor. And from there, the two could embark on a bus tour through West Virginia, Kentucky, southern Indiana, and on to Chicago, before heading through Iowa, Nebraska, and on to the convention. They’d have just enough time to arrive in Denver for the first day of the convention. I smell a bus version of the whistle-stop.
