John McCain knows how to talk to the youths!
Jun 6th, 2008 | By Stirling | Category: Uncategorized
With his recent
youtube contest John "
Hot Bottle" McCain is making an aggressive play to capture the hearts and minds of young voters, many of whom currently support Barack Obama. If his most recent
humdinger of an attack is any indication, we should be very, very unafraid:
"I believe that people are interested very much in substance," McCain said, contrasting himself against Barack Obama's charismatic style. "If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president."
Oh Snap!
For those of you who don't currently have a second browser window open and pointed to Wikipedia, William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1896, 1900, 1908.
Bryan, as
anyone could tell you, is not only famous for his advocacy of
silver as a monetary standard (with a ratio of sixteen ounces of silver equal to one ounce of gold), but also as a populist with amazing skills as a
public speaker. Zing! Gotcha Obama! Let's see you put
that in one of your intertube movies!
Clearly, by drawing a comparison between Obama and Bryan, John McCain is trying to compare himself to the popular Republican President and fellow Civil War veteran William McKinley. Perhaps McCain realizes that the gold standard is extremely popular among young republicans who support Ron Paul and is looking to cash in on the hype. On the other hand, perhaps McCain just doesn't have any frame of reference beyond the early 1900s.
If he could only figure out using the
Marconigram as a fund-raising tool he would
slaughter Obama in the general election!
File Under: McCaingerous, Pink-O-Pinion
Obama is going to just DESTROY McCaingerous … oooh how sweet it is. Incidentally, William McKinley’s 1896 campaign was Karl Rove’s model for running George Bush’s campaign in 2000.
William McKinley is also thought to have inspired the Wicked Witch of the West. So vicariously…
i feed babies hot water sometimes i figure if they minded they would tell me, using adult words.
Actually, William McKinley was the real-life inspiration for the Wizard of Oz because he was a humbug politician who really was a “very bad wizard” behind the curtain.
The Wicked Witch of the West was the drought — which drove Midwestern farmers off their land, until she was hit with water (I’m MELTING, MELTING!!)
The Yellow Brick Road was the Gold Standard that deluded the American people towards the Emerald City, where they would soon learn that it was all a sham.
The Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan because he had no courage. The Tin Man was the industrial worker who suffered in late 1890′s capitalist society. And the Scarecrow was the farmer.
And the Wicked Witch of the East was the Eastern Banking establishment that crushed the little people (i.e., the munchkins.) They dropped a house on her …
In case you wonder why I know all that, I had a left-wing socialist college history professor at Berkeley who told us that story. When we were naive, wide-eyed freshmen …
Well, our takes on th William McKinley/Witch/Wizard issue are clearly divergent, but the basic premise is the same.
Also in the original the slippers where silver, not ruby. Interesting with the whole Silverite thing…
This is officially the hardest I’ve ever worked for a “McCain is old!” joke.
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