An Orwellian Convention, McCain Doublespeak: Change Is Coming and It Is More of the Same, Bush plus Five Years as POW



This has been an Orwellian week in Minneapolis. We have seen how:
  • Change is the status quo.
  • The economy will be improved with more of the same.
  • Change will come through Bush advisers and speech writers.
  • The best change is no change.
  • Country comes first but not the people.
McCain threw George W Bush under the bus last night, after adopting almost all his policies. The GOP leaders, senators and congressmen all did the same last night, getting the best of two worlds: professing change while extolling the status quo of the past eight years.
What I learned from McCain's speech last night:
  • He and Palin adopt Bush policies on energy.
  • He adopts Bush policies on taxes+ (the status quo plus more tax cuts for corporations).
  • He adopts Bush policies on health care (the status quo).
  • He adopts Bush policies on outsourcing jobs.
  • He adopts Bush policy of blaming overworked teachers for failed education.
  • He adopts Bush foreign policies that have lowered American status in the world to its lowest level.
  • He hugs, almost makes love to, Bush political tactics for the campaign.
  • He adopts Bush policies on other 'cultural' issues.
McCain differs from Bush on one important point:
  • We found out last night that he had been a POW in Vietnam. But then we have been finding out that about him every day for the past year, several times a day.
So, the new GOP policy is to accentuate the differences between him and Obama. Not policy differences, but the fact that he served in Vietnam and was a POW. It just might work, given the nano-second attention span of the average American voter.
Cheers
mhg

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Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum at 9/5/2008 7:26 AM and is filed under News Commentary
 

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