Dan, with your family DNA and all, I see a hoops dream in your future. I mean, look at Spud Webb….5′6″ slam dunk champion and all. Muggsy Bogues all 5′ nothing….All-Star. Don’t let the Eastern European ethnicity deter you. Heck the Lithuanians back in ‘92 had all those neat looking tie-dyed uniforms didn’t they? They were no slouches either. Victor, pick up the rock and go to the hole my brotha’. You were OK back in the day, I mean, you were no Nnamdi Whatever-his-name-was, but you could hold your own in the pick-up league.

If your mind isn’t made up by now on who you’re voting for than I think you’re missing the boat. Obama’s far too left-wing for me and I do think his past assosiations do merit some scrutiny. As do McCains as well. But I tend to lean over on the other side of the aisle on most thnigs (not all mind you). Palin scares me, I think he could have come up with a wiser choice. But damn she looks good. I thought he and Rudy could have made for a better Republican ticket, that’s if Rudy was even in the running as a VP candidate. I just find Obama’s message a lot of rhetoric and not much on substance. On the bright side though, if you’re a kid and you miss the word “change” on the next spelling test than there’s no hope for you at this point.

I doubt that bloggers who write about politicians and point out weaknesses consider it their duty, so much as their right. You wouldn’t want to feel required, out of a sense of fairness, to point out Victor’s soccer opponents strong points would you?, Or detail the rare mistake by his team? You write about what you want to write about.

However, I get what you’re saying about bloggers being against a candidate rather than for one, but that’s the climate today. Educated voters know where their candidate stands on policies, for the most part, and that’s why he’s “your guy”. These platforms have been carefully crafted and posted and advertised. So that facet of a candidate really doesn’t change all that much over the 18 or so months of campaiging. (flip-flopping notwithstanding….it happens on BOTH sides)

So how to sway voters who have decided they agree with one guy’s policies? The only way is to did up some dirt, or point out inadequacies. You can only sell your guy so long before you have to look for votes by tearing down the other guy.

There are McCain people and there are Obama people, and ne’er the twain shall meet UNLESS one side is able to dig up something just undeniably distasteful about the other. Personally, I don’t think either side in this election had changed many minds before Sarah Palin entered the picture.

I was referring to a certain brand of blogger who takes it as their duty to point out the foibles of their ideological opposites. I’ve never felt the need to do that at BFS.

I realize that this goes both ways, but perhaps because I read more left-leaning blogs, the phenomenon is more apparent to me when it happens against the right.

I don’t know, maybe these bloggers feel that it is their role to point out the weaknesses of the enemy while ignoring any gaffes from the home team.

What bothers me is that many of these bloggers have little to say about their guy, but have daily belittlements on the opponent.

I’d rather vote for somebody, than against somebody. Maybe that’s too much to ask for.

Thanks for commenting and it isn’t Judge Schmales. But you’re warm.

Dan

Personally, I think the Biden FDR/Hoover gaffe is “funny”, the same way the millions of examples of Palin’s errors are funny. But Dave H.’s link actually made me cringe, even though it has NADA to do with Biden’s readiness for the vice-presidency, it was just realllllly bad for Biden.

If you haven’t seen bloggers call out Obama and Biden, you haven’t been looking very hard. Maybe you just enjoy blogs of more liberal authorship, and who could blame you?

So was it Juges Schmales (Ted Knight?)

And thanks for the LINCOLNESQUE plug….