An Ugly Week, With More to Come
02 August 2008 5:00 am by Taylor Marsh
Guest post by Scan
I’m not sure what the low point of the week was…the Paris Hilton thing, the race card accusations, the “Obama doesn’t care about the troops” ad…but it seems pretty clear that it’s only the beginning.
In reality, neither now seems to have a high opinion of the other. McCain’s lack of respect has been evident for some time. He seems to view Obama as a pretender, who talks about change but has not been willing to cross his party or any important constituencies as a senator, which in McCain’s view is necessary to truly change Washington. Obama certainly does honor McCain’s service, but is dismayed over what he regards as continuous attacks from McCain. That atmosphere made it all more inevitable that the kind of explosion that occurred this week would come at some point. Now it will be hard to go back.
No one expects the level of discord to stay at the level of the past few days, but there is every reason to believe that the remaining 95 days will see more such episodes.
The next three months will no doubt be interesting…but less than inspiring, I fear. Therefore, I recommend laughing at the situation as much as possible.
Open thread.
