Everyone’s heard the McSame/McBush meme, which PMW constantly echoes (and let’s hear for it Joe Biden’s Freudian slip during his speech. Heyo!) However, a friend of mine suggested to me that picking Biden made Obama seem more like Bush than the Maverick from the Gang of 14: a young, inexperienced dude who’s liked for his personality picks an older, experienced VP to hold his hand through the presidency. Interesting argument. Here’s my response.
McCAIN vs. BUSH
If you overlook some (alleged) pandering to the Right during the primaries (which, in fairness, happens every time), McCain is not a standard Republican, although he’s not moderate either. But let’s look at his Maverick stands:Pork-Barrel Spending: Whoop-dee-doo, only politicians disagree with you! (Plus, Bush is with you here).
Environment: Bravo, sir, only right-wing nut jobs think you go too far on this!
Campaign Finance Reform: Meh, I’ll give you a point for that.
Immigration: Assuming you re-renege or un-renege (is that a nege???) this counts as a Maverick position, but it’s the same as Bush’s stance, so you’re still McBush.
Foreign Policy: Bush - torture + competence, where competence = 0 because your ideas are batshit insane!
TOTAL: 3 points. McCain is an anti-torture, pro-campaign finance reform, more environmentalist version of Bush.
OBAMA vs. BUSH
First of all, Biden ran for president and, while he failed miserably (twice!), Biden is not totally unelectable and he was running against three political superstars. Cheney was unelectable, and making him VP was some kind of crazy Texas Trojan Horse ju-jitsu (I feel so professional for working ju-jitsu into a post). Also, Cheney was known for being a hardline conservative, whereas Biden is known for being fairly moderate, sensible, and non-ideological. He’s an arrogant, rambling plagiarizer, but that’s child play compared to Cheney (Bush’s second term was Child’s Play 2, let’s not go for Bride of Chucky starring Sarah Palin). Ultimately, let’s face it: Obama is smarter, more educated, and more driven than Bush (or at least he’ll read the paper). He’s not the type to let his cabinet and staff run everything.ON THE CHARGE OF BEING TOO SIMILAR TO GEORGE W. BUSH, The Honorable Waco Kid finds Barack Obama not guilty and he finds McCain guilty. You are sentenced to two months running a doomed campaign (plus time already served), and may God have mercy on your soul. (Politically speaking, of course)
3 comments:
"Immigration: Assuming you re-renege or un-renege (is that a nege???)"
We federation types of have realized 24th-century levels of tolerance, but that was too far, Waco. Too far.
-LeVar
Renege is a perfectly acceptable word, with no common roots to any offensive words. Look it up!
And now you're invoking Roots. What kind of racist are you, Waco?
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