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Nov. 3rd, 2008 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumWhen was the last time you looked up, and read a presidential candidate's speech from months ago before bed?
Not since Perot, I'd think. If we had YouTube, he and his charts would have been all over that.
Incidentally, Perot is still around, and still trying to save the country with charts. Thanks for not giving up, Ross.
But I felt compelled to look up Obama's speech on religion's place in politics, trying to figure out whether there's anything there pointing to him being a secret atheist. He does use the same examples that atheists like to use to "zing" the Bible, but his tone is much more supportive in religion in one's personal life.
I'd be sad to see the whole election go by, without hearing McCain deliver something that approaches that level of rhetoric. I think that, like Al Gore, he will experience a great unclenching once the other guy gets inaugurated. And I'm sure he'll be invited to the TED conference. But Gore's pet issues involved things that happen all over the planet, and McCain's seem to be about things that happen in Washington. Maybe that's the real reason he's not connecting with people as deeply.
Not since Perot, I'd think. If we had YouTube, he and his charts would have been all over that.
Incidentally, Perot is still around, and still trying to save the country with charts. Thanks for not giving up, Ross.
But I felt compelled to look up Obama's speech on religion's place in politics, trying to figure out whether there's anything there pointing to him being a secret atheist. He does use the same examples that atheists like to use to "zing" the Bible, but his tone is much more supportive in religion in one's personal life.
I'd be sad to see the whole election go by, without hearing McCain deliver something that approaches that level of rhetoric. I think that, like Al Gore, he will experience a great unclenching once the other guy gets inaugurated. And I'm sure he'll be invited to the TED conference. But Gore's pet issues involved things that happen all over the planet, and McCain's seem to be about things that happen in Washington. Maybe that's the real reason he's not connecting with people as deeply.
