"Little Brother"
POSTED BY JACK
ON 02.14.08 7:14 AM
Hello everyone,
While I'm not exactly a Blogette, I thought I'd give my sister, who's isn't feeling well, a break and write about being something of a campaign outsider. My name is Jack and I'm Meghan's little brother. I'm a Midshipman at the Naval Academy, studying International Relations. It's probably pretty obvious that I have nowhere near the fashion sense of my big sister.
When I'm on a leave, I'm a huge fan of driving race cars and eating real Mexican food. Unfortunately, I don't get outside of the Academy much so I am following the presidential race through the blog and www.realclearpolitics.com. For those of you who don't have a permanent seat on the Straight Talk Express, I'm just like you! More &(pics)..
McCain says he likes to keep his kids out of the spotlight, but 23 year old Meghan is campaigning by his side "writing entries about having fun on the campaign trail, as the official campaign staff to be nervously eyes her from a distance. "I thought there are probably a lot of people out there who have no idea what a campaign is like, what it looks like, what a campaign feels like," she says of the inspiration for her blog, which is funded and operated independent from the campaign. "I wanted to show my friends and people that so much about politics and so much happens behind the scenes.. And that is what you get on McCain Blogette -- ephemera, not politics or policy. The girls post photos of "Dad," the candidate, having his makeup done in the pre-debate green room.
Actually this little "hip" key ingredient, "get to know the McCain kids" could definitely help McCain's image which now appears to younger voters and even the mother/daughter vote which Hillary attracts; as an "insensitive, old guy politician in a stiff collar with business suit, all gruff n' stuff". The McCain Kids-give Dad a more hip key likeability factor that could help save McCain over Obama. Enter: Brain, meet Heart and Vice Versa.
Meghan McCain's Playlist Volumes make for good listening too.
have been pushing a new caricature of their opponent: the cultish figure who seduces the weak-kneed masses with vague and meaningless but oh-so-warm-feeling generalities.How is that a caricature? It's accurate.
Bet Billary never expected the shoe to be on the other foot. We could never understand the left’s infatuation with them.
The white racists in the rat party will never vote for obama in the general election. The rats are in big trouble. I fully expect race riots at the rat convention this summer. Bring your own hoses.
Obama is getting so popular amongst the media and the teeny libs that I’m surprised McCain hasn’t suspended his campaign yet to endorse Obama. The media would love that.
Actually Real Politics.com is where everyone goes to get their political news... That and Politico.com.
I do agree with you about the McCain kids though. They are quite fresh and funny. The fact that they’re all in their twenties and teens makes John McCain seem younger and more fresh than he is. Meghan McCain’s blog is quite a neat take on politics. (She’s very much her dad’s daughter). I also McCain is hilarious in his own right... The New Yorker wrote this in depth article on McCain, and I have to say that the Straight Talk Express has to be the best ticket in town (despite the fact that McCain is in desperate need of new jokes). John McCain is the “underdog” in the election, so I really hope that he keeps his campaign as is...