I predict that we will see multiple calibrated surges of information at critical points in this campaign that will erode away at the competitors’ base. One that that I have already noted about the Obama-Biden campaign is that they have become “reactive” instead of “proactive”.

Their “Change” mantra at the moment is more directed against how business is done in Congress and, if you haven’t noticed, this Democrat Congress’s approval rating is only a fraction that of Bush’s approval rating.

Repeating the “change” mantra at the end of the McCain video is a little strange, considering McCain’s very close agreement with Bush on several key policies, ranging from the Iraq War to the economy, from immigration to foreign policy, from energy policy to tax policy. It kind of takes the meaning out of the term, don’t you think?

This isn’t the first example of false advertising either: his most recent ads championing his energy policy prominently show wind mills, yet John McCain voted against the bill that would extend the tax credits to help that industry reach economic scale–even though he has voted to extend tax credits to the oil industry, which already enjoys scale economies and doesn’t need such subsidation.

Not.

That’s John McCain’s idea of protecting the people who fight for America?

Check that site for all the videos of the speeches, Book.

McCain’s experiences in Hanoi also means his position on torture is both inflexible and unreasonable.

The United States does not torture or even interrogate people in order to provide us with propaganda material to support our war on defenseless South Vietnamese villages, after all.

When he says that one must fight for America because America and her soldiers are fighting for you, to free you, then what will he say to a United States military hobbled by a fragmented policy towards the interrogation and imprisoning of enemies?

We’ll fight for the comfort of America’s enemies because Americans don’t torture and use waterboarding? Americans use waterboarding all the time on Special Forces candidates in the SERE.

Yeah, we’ll fight to ensure that people who kill women and children on the battlefield gets access to luxuries and benefits no patriotic America that gets captured ever will acquire. That’s fighting for America and her defenders, alright.

It is irrational. But unlike Obama’s beliefs, it is not changeable based upon political corruption and benefits.