It now appears that the bigger the problem, the more likely it is that they’ll be completely ignored. So here we are: huge problems and a correspondingly empty election. It’s the politics of nothing. The McCain camp knows that the only way they can win the election is to turn it into a carnival sideshow.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/john-mccain-paris-hilton_b_117293.html

Obama has a voice, and he has the microphone to say anything he wants anytime he wants to say it. But as his opponent “distracts” the media–and hence the public–daily with a relentless drumbeat about what’s wrong with Obama–that he isn’t strong, that he isn’t American, that he isn’t patriotic, that he doesn’t have the judgment or experience to be president, that he didn’t have the balls to serve in the military, that he eats arugula, that he is the most liberal member of the United States Senate, that he isn’t “one of us”–what story has Barack Obama told that could possibly catch the public attention? That he has a slightly amended plan for dealing with the energy crisis? And what story is his campaign telling about why voters should worry as much about John McCain as they are beginning to worry about Barack Obama?

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Ron Suskind’s new book reports that in 2003, the White House ordered the CIA to forge a letter to “prove” that Iraq had a hand in 9/11 and that Saddam was buying yellowcake uranium from Niger for his WMD program with the help of Al Qaeda.

When this came up on MSNBC, moderator Chuck Todd asked Politico’s Mike Allen whether this would lead “the anti-war crowd” in Congress to call for impeachment. Allen replied that it would “give the lefty blogosphere something to grab onto.”

And so, in less time than it takes to say “Dick Cheney,” the subject is changed from what would be one of the most outrageous violations of the Constitution in the history of the Republic to a left/right issue.

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