Last night, I dreamt I was back in grade school. The popular kids were telling the rest of the class who to like and who not to like. The nasty, vindictive kids, who are always jealous of the cool guys were making up awful stories about them so that the rest of us wouldn't like them anymore. It seemed so real.
When I awoke this morning, I tried, as I usually do when I remember my dreams, to figure out what triggered this particular one. Then I remembered......shortly before falling asleep last evening, I saw the McCain campaign's anti-Obama ad. It's the ad that runs every hour on the hour here in Missouri.
You know, the one I am talking about....the one where people are chanting Obama's name and a very solemn voice tells us all that Obama is the most popular person in the world, BUT IS HE READY TO LEAD? No wonder I thought I was back in grade school.
The psychology behind the ad is really very good. You know how often most of us had less than kind thoughts about the "in crowd". They always made the rest of us feel a little unsure of ourselves. Sometimes we hated them, sometimes we envied them, sometimes we just wanted them to acknowledge us.
John McCain wants you to believe that Barack Obama is the 'in crowd" that snubbed you back in grade school. He wants you to believe that there is something wrong with the fact that Obama was hailed in Europe and the Middle East, that hundreds of thousands of people turned out to see him in his travels. John McCain wants you to believe that this is a very bad thing.
Amazing, isn't it? The past eight years have made us ugly Americans worldwide. The present occupant of the White House has, through his arrogance and downright stupidity, turned friend into foe from the North Pole to the South Pole. From the McCain campaign, only agreement with Bush policies and a foreshadowing of more of the same. However, that no-good Obama had the audacity to make the rest of the world give us a new look, a forgiving look.....to want our friendship and partnership again. The Bastard!
The rest of the free world wants a modified form of the old order restored. They liked the US when it was the guardian of liberty and free speech around the world. They liked our country when our word meant something. They liked us when we stood for something. In other words, they liked us a whole lot better before W and his henchmen took hold of our country.
I can only imagine what Europe and the Middle East will think if they wake up on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November and find that we have elected a sad, befuddled e old man who is more of the same Bush crowd. They seem willing to consider the last eight years some sort of strange aberration on the part of the American people.
If we choose McCain as our next leader, they will, undoubtedly, think that we are past saving.
And all those nasty, silly little people who hated the popular kids just because they were the popular kids will come out on top.
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