Welcome to SetonnoteS, I’m Tony Seton.
In a curious way, the November election is a replay of the 2004 race. Back then it was an issue of macho, with the monosyllabic knuckle-dragging brush-cutter up against the Boston Brahmin. Even though Bush and his war in Iraq were unpopular, Kerry still managed to lose the race in a country that clearly wanted change. The reason was that Kerry lost on manliness points.
How ironic, considering that Kerry was a genuine war hero while Bush didn’t even show up for his Alabama National Guard service. If only Kerry had stood up to the SwiftBoaters, showed them he was a real man, but nope. What a wuss. Or perhaps it was his elocution.
Kerry’s campaign did little to help his image with his surfing and hunting photos, and the backtracking on his support for the invasion of Iraq. I would also note that his relationship with his wife, the Heinz heiress, made him look like something of a pantywaist.
But what about Barack Obama. Why does it appear that he isn’t the man our cowboy nation demands? Some more irony...he’s clean-looking. Remember when his now-running mate Joe Biden called him that, and he had to apologize to Al Sharpton because it was interpreted somehow as racist?
Well Obama does look clean, and our image of male-macho is at least a day-old beard, if not some dried blood on some new scars, some oily muscle, and an expression of not feeling the pain, you know, suffering in silence the wounds received protecting American (white) womanhood.
Oops. Yet more irony. Obama appears to have an enviously-sound relationship with his wife, who seems the ideal partner rather than a silent accessory or a controlling witch.
No wonder Hillary Clinton came so close. She appeared more of a man than he.
And now, how on god’s green earth does a guy like this intend to compete against a dottering war prisoner and a Joan-of-Arc fundamentalist who slaughters wild animals with abandon?
He’ll have to show what a real man is. If he can.
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