THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† It’s A Topsy-Turvy Campaign: Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh thinks Barack Obama just could be “[t]he new Old Gipper”: that is.
Many a stalwart Republican knight has tried to don Reagan's storied mantle, of course.
George H.W. Bush ran on Reagan's legacy. …
John McCain frequently cites Reagan as his hero. In her vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin even appropriated one of Reagan's resonant rebukes, chiding "there you go again" when Joe Biden put forth the outlandish suggestion that the immediate Republican governing record was somehow relevant to this campaign.
So if Obama is indeed the new Reagan, why, it would be political kingdom shaking, the modern-day equivalent of the unassuming, overlooked Arthur of legend sliding the sword from the stone.
I don't mean to suggest that Obama is like Reagan in policy terms. Heaven forfend. That would appall both Reagan and Obama fans. But Obama does seem to be creating the Democratic equivalent of the Gipper Gestalt, the Dutch Dynamic, which led to . . . the Ronnie Tsunami.
On a superficially level, maybe Lehigh has a point. But Reagan wasn’t all style, like Obama. There was real substance there, too.
To read other posts in this series, click here, here (second item), here, here (second item) and here.
† Manatees Have A Cow Over Losing Endangered Species Classification (second item): A manatee rescued from the chilly waters of Cape Cod, MA, by wildlife officials has died en route to Sea World in FL, reports The Associated Press. Concerned that he would stop feeding if he got too cold officials trapped him in a net and lifted him by forklift to a truck for the 20-hour drive to more temperate climes. Officials will investigate the cause and manner of the manatee’s death. A case can be made that cash-strapped local, state and federal government workers should find more responsible uses of tax dollars than interfering with nature taking its course, whether it’s a wayward manatee or a moose stuck in the ice.
Editorial Note: The Fearless Leader of the Manatees (below, left) issued a statement mourning the loss of a loyal subject.
† Death Row Inmate: I’m Too Fat To Execute: Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a stay of execution to OH rapist-murder Richard Cooey, who claimed his girth made it impossible to administer lethal injection humanely, reports The Associated Press. Cooey was executed Tuesday morning at 10:28 a.m.; the OH Board of Parole and the state’s governor, Ted Strickland (D), had denied his clemency pleas. Cooey’s last meal included a T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, onion rings, fries, four eggs over easy, buttered toast, hash browns, a pint of rocky road ice cream, a Mountain Dew soft drink and bear claw pastries. A few more meals like that, and a heart attack would have gotten him before the executioner did.
† 527 Group pH For America Ready To Air Its First Anti-Obama Ad: Stephen Marks, founder of pH For America, was accused by the Obama campaign’s “Fight the Smears” Web site of being a “scam artist” for raising funds to air an attack ad that that will “never run.” WorldNetDaily has confirmed that Marks purchased airtime on WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, and that the ad has been broadcast several times.
Marks tells WND that the money he has raised through his Web site has all gone toward “the media buys and minimal production costs.” Marks is relying on donations from grassroots blue-collar voters to buy more airtime in additional media markets in the hopes that donors with deep-pocket will see the ad. WND cites a CNN interview in which Evan Tracey, chief operating officer of Campaign Media Analysis Group notes: “Even though an ad buy might be small now, remember, these groups are auditioning right now for late donations to take these ads to a larger scope. Remember, the Swift Boat original ad buy was less than $1 million and ran in only a handful of small media markets."
† Updates To Previous Posts (last item, Another Cockamamie Lib Idea Fails The Real World Test): The family of a second teenager has now travelled to NE with the express purpose of dumping him at a hospital. Days after a 14-year-old IA girl was reunited with her grandparents, a 13-year-old MI boy was left at Creighton University Medical Center. Since NE’s unusual safe haven law went into effect in July, 18 children under the age of 19 have been left at state-licensed hospitals, reports The Associated Press. In most cases, parents and guardians felt the child’s behavior had become uncontrollable. NE officials are urging such parents to first try getting help from other family members, faith-based groups and community services before taking the drastic step of abandoning their children.
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