Making and remaking of McCain and more

This is a fascinating article on John McCain's campaign. It provides perspective as to why John McCain lurched from issue to issue. It seems, his campaign manager missed one of the most important lessons of Bush/Rove strategy - message consistency, a lesson that Obama took to heart. Also, the selection of Palin was even more shockingly unresearched than I had first imagined. Here is the most telling exchange as recounted in the article:

The following night, after McCain’s speech brought the convention to a close, one of the campaign’s senior advisers stayed up late at the Hilton bar savoring the triumphant narrative arc. I asked him a rather basic question: “Leaving aside her actual experience, do you know how informed Governor Palin is about the issues of the day?”

The senior adviser thought for a moment. Then he looked up from his beer. “No,” he said quietly. “I don’t know.”

This is a fascinating perspective on Barack Obama from David Duke, former Louisiana state lawmaker, grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and onetime presidential aspirant. I probably need to make several corrections to David Duke's assertions. Suffice to say facts and statistics were bandied about by David Duke in ways that were often entirely incorrect.