Looking Glass Politics

I agree with this TPM reader:

I’ve got a Masters in Political Science so I’m not a complete ignoramus – but my instincts seem to be at odds with so many others on this and many other issues. [...] What’s going on? Every thing that I think should be a plus for Obama turns out to be much more complicated. I’m a little worried about tomorrow night. 80,000 cheering people. Fantastic speech. Great spectacle. Am I going to wake up on Friday morning and find that all of these so-called positives are bad for Obama?

Every that should be positive is actually negative, and everything that should be a negative is still a negative. It’s the barbecue media script. And the movie ends with the doddering grill master winning.

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  • cminri

    I know what you mean Bob. A good example is how the McCain camp portrayed Obama’s Berlin Speech. They tried to make it reminiscent of Hitler in Nazi Germany. The black and white images…the crowd chanting. They tried to turn a postive into a negative.