No, We Are Not Retarded.

What McCain and his camp don't realize is that contrary to what the last eight years of public support has implicated (in regards to the general intellect of the average american voter) the american public is not as idiotic as he and his campaign team would imagine. His attempts to hypnotize the public with speaking techniques such as dumbed down metaphors and hard hitting repetition are as effective as a flaccid penis flapping around in the heat of the moment. McCain, in a debate, often fastens himself to one phrase, like a broken record, proceeded by sitting there blankly like a duck expecting a golden egg (the presidency) to drop out of his ass. Fervently repeating the same imagery throughout the debate does not ensure that a) we will believe it, nor b) it is not infallibly apparent that being assaulted by various speech techniques merely serves as a grandiloquent smokescreen for a lack of substance. McCain would hope that his verbal Monets would hypnotize us into simply ingesting the bitter suppository that there is no one better for the job, without actually having to analyze the job there is to be done. Commencing his war on words with phrases such as, "What Mr. Obama doesn't understand is..." which clearly attempts to paint a portrait, and condescendingly so, of Obama as a naive and very clueless child, he ends the succession of debates with the infamous "Joe the plumber" solicitation, not to mention the constant harping on taxes and government spending which, although is slightly more to the point admittedly, somehow gets morphed from a discussion of valid and relevant issues into "politics as usual" mud slinging, but we will get to that later. It is evident that McCain would like to appeal to the "average joe" of America in this last debate, which is a smart and wholly necessary strategy at this point in the campaign; however, despite his desperate cries to the "average Joe's" out in America, it appears that he has absolutely nothing substantial to say when finally obtaining their prized attention. Bad move. It is rude and insulting to waste everyones time listening to you if you actually have nothing to say. And, if by some misguided PR stunt, he does have an inkling hidden beneath his brand new literary Houdini veil waiting to spring at the last minute, it is even more insulting to the voter that this candidate would play political games and not come straight out and explain his plan like a mature adult to a mature adult audience. His responses to debate questions transparently construct pretty paper mache promises without any visible knowledge of how he plans to execute them, a gaping void which he then attempts to conceal by switching the spotlight to the holes or negative effects of Obama's various proposals, and in turn careening subversive blows to the Obama camp, the latter occupying most of his response time. Doesn't he realize that simply pushing his history as a proponent for why he is the best man for the job, followed by rash negative generalizations about his opponent's plan does not equate to a plan in itself? Yes, we are aware that you are concerned about Joe, and thank you very much for that, but concern is not really the issue (we have enough of that), nor is your history in the armed forces. What is important is whether you know how to do anything about it, an issue which failed to be properly communicated to the public in these past debates.
Then there is the talk of taxes and government spending, which makes clear to us that merely touting phrases such as "no tax raises," "no government spending," and "reform" can seemingly masquerade as an actual plan. What is this so called "reform?" Could that please be elaborated on? Yes, throwing money at a problem does not alway solve it, but if we are going to talk about "reform" in terms of the dying economic beast that seems to have vigorously attached itself to everyones' minds like a barnacle, you are essentially talking about reforming the way our economy has been working since the dawn of our country, reforming our capitalist system, which, if this is the case, we'll need to see what you indeed plan to reform that to. This economic collapse is the natural progression of a capitalist laissez faire attitude that has, up until now, been working out quite well for our country's economy. Leaving the economy in the hands of companies eventually has it's price, and "reform" would signal changing the entire framework of that economy. Advertising that we won't have to spend an extra dime to pull America out of this financial sinking ship, should McCain win, sounds extremely appealing but even the most idiotic person alive knows that this notion is just pink balloon waiting to pop. We would rather hear about how our money is to be spent now, rather than later, which is an inevitability with McCain's so-called plan because believe me, money will be spent. However, for the present, latching onto the idea that illuminating the public to the fact that Obama does intend to use taxes and government spending in his plans to rescue a sinking America, only conversely illuminates the fact that McCain has no plan to rescue America at all. He seems to think that shouting out the words "taxes" and "spending" will have everyone reeling in the other direction before they can realize that there is nothing there. Newsflash: we're big kids now, and we live in the 21st century where we all took an econ course in high school and have a vague idea of how money is spent and gained. We know that it is going to take more than prayers and a strong belief in a higher power to create change, and we're not scared to hear about what exactly it takes to do that. In fact, we prefer to hear it...now, preferably. In berating Obama for using money in his rescue strategies, he wants to appear strong to the voters, "KOing" Obama, so to speak, but without any counter plan, he ends up looking like an angry and impotent child, name-calling on a playground.