Sarah Palin & the End of a Culture War
I just read this op-ed piece from the Washington Post on culture, politics, and why Sarah Palin was the wrong choice for McCain’s running mate. This is an excellent piece of writing and I think it perfectly captures a shift that is happening in American ideals. Here’s an excerpt:
Why has America turned on Sarah Palin? Obviously, her wobbly television interviews haven’t helped. Nor have the drip, drip of scandals from Alaska, which have tarnished her reformist image. But Palin’s problems run deeper, and they say something fundamental about the political age being born. Palin’s brand is culture war, and in America today culture war no longer sells. The struggle that began in the 1960s — which put questions of racial, sexual and religious identity at the forefront of American politics — may be ending. Palin is the end of the line.
Check out the rest of the article here.
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1 commentMcCain’s Suspension of Campaign
Let me start by saying I’m not voting for McCain or Obama, but I still have strong opinions about both of them. I think McCain’s announcement today that he’s suspending his campaign to deal with the financial crisis is absolutely ridiculous. Clearly this is a ploy to try to make himself look good. McCain’s trying to make himself appear as the candidate that really cares about the economy, when in actuality Obama has been talking about economic trouble for some time. McCain has been trying desperately to ignore the issue. This latest announcement is nothing more than political maneuvering by McCain to shift focus from away his previous positions; now in the future McCain can praise himself as the candidate who really cares about the American people.
McCain is considering postponing some of the presidential debates now too. I think it’s completely absurd to postpone the debates at Ole Miss University and Belmont University, both of whom have spent huge piles of cash in preparation for the debates that are supposed to be coming to their respective campuses. Perhaps the real issue is that McCain is scared to debate Obama. Since he appears to have no convictions about anything, will stoop to any level in dirty campaigning, outright lie about factual information, and fails to represent the ideology of the Republican party in any way, I guess it’s really not that surprising that he would pull a stunt like this.
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