No Respect

I was thinking the other day how loathsome it was how the Repugnican Party can't bring itself to extend an iota of respect to Barack ("that one") Obama because he's a black man, even though he's running as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States.

But then I thought, the office of president is only to be revered for these people if there's a fellow Repugnican in it. The Starr Report's humiliation of Clinton showed that. Obama's skin colour obviously does rub the Repugs the wrong way, but the extent of their boorishness doesn't start there.

I also thought that US-Americans are famous for their marketing and advertising schemes, as well as their whole entertainment industry. If the noble Obama vs. the angry, ugly McCain-Palin campaign really wasn't designed by the marketing department of some shadowy cabal of puppet-masters (and I don't believe it was), it couldn't have been done any better. Just like a Hollywood hero, Obama looks good and says nice things, but doesn't really say all that much.