I lied (sorta)

Mea culpa, mea culpa...of sorts.

Early on in the life of this blog I do believe I piously declared that I don't look @ polls. This was clearly me being snotty, snooty, and a colossal liar.

At the time in this Presidential race, I didn't. What I forgot was that as the time gets withing the convention, as we have finally found our two combatants...I do at least listen to the polling in a cursory fashion.

What I mean is I do recall that Obama was "up" by a few points about a week or so ago. Now, what I am hearing in the periphery is that, according to pollsters...it has once again "tightened" back up to essentially a dead heat.

I still stick by what I have earlier said on this blog, that a lead in the national "polls" of 2-3 percentage points doesn't much tell you anything since we do have that asinine Selectoral College to deal with.

However, is does go the the "narrative" of the race, and foolish people can be swayed from their convictions by national polling. In America, everyone loves a winner, and they hate to go vote for a loser...so that's where these so-called "polls" have a role...they prey of the psyche of a candidate, the press that covers them, and the people that vote. It's very much a sickness.

By as Frank Rich so aprtly noted in yesterday's Op-Ed for the Times, this race may be tied...but it's only for one reason: No one is covering the joke of a man that has become John McCain.

Once again, the left-leaning media, as they did with Kerry (I'd argue) fell in love with the idea of him and tried to push his story, tried to tell his story to the American people, while lazily and foolishly "covering" the Dubya campaign in such a cursory way that he and his campaign got away with so much balderdash...he scored yet another stolen selection at the craps table.

The media is doing it again, much to the detriment of their own candidate whom they all may love to death. They are killing him through over-esposure...but more importantly, UNDEREXPOSURE of the daft cow that is John McCain.

The man is a war hero, I'll give him that. But, what about being captured and tortured for years makes you fit to be President?...jack squat.

The man has become a disgusting tale of pandering gone bad. I watched his section (I missed Obama's, so perhaps this is unfair) of the "Saddleback Forum" thing on CNN...the man was using that whole experience as a crutch. Literally, that's all he had. Moreover, when he was asked who his top 3 wisest people are, his answer was almost as lame as Dubya's fave philosopher answer back in 2000?: "Jesus Christ."

McCain is off his meds, but he's being given a big, massive free pass. It's as if the media dispatched a representative to his house and handed him one of those giant checks people who win the lottery get. Only his says, "Free pass for making comments that are incoherent and moronic."

Pathetic.