Wednesday, July 30, 2008

More Thoughts on the Cheese Aisle


By Baxter

So the dominant campaign narrative today seems to be, "Has Senator McCain gone too negative too soon?"

We cats vote, YES.

We generally don't care for candidates who think we should elect them because they tell us other guy is so bad. Tell us why you're good first.

But that doesn't seem to be the way things are done on the Republican side in the Age of Rove.

And so, we have Carly Fiorina — who was fired as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, by the way — saying the other day that Senator Obama's economic summit was "yet another photo opp."

Oh, we see. Reading three-by-five cards, as Senator McCain did, in front of a gallon of milk or a pack of cheese is serious economic policy. Meeting in a bipartisan group of economic and financial leaders such as Warren Buffett, Paul O'Neill, Paul Volcker, Bill Donaldson, Robert Reich, Laura Tyson, Bob Rubin, etc. is mere cream puffery.

If that's cream puffery, please direct us to the "Dairy Delights" aisle. Because we think America could use some words of wisdom from the cream puffs of the world.

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