The Boring Broadsheet lives up to its name

This gem in the SMH on Barry Obama. To wit:

Barack Obama seems finally to have hit on a strategy to fight the Sarah Palin phenomenon: sidestep the feisty Republican vice-presidential pick and turn full fire on an "out of touch" John McCain.

I'm not sure which is worse: the SMH for running this article, or the Obamessiah campaign for dreaming it up. Honestly, if this is the best that BHO's disciples can come up with then they might as well start writing their concession speeches now.

I have no intention of giving the Democrats free advice, but it seems obvious that they should be telling voters what they will do if they get elected. Attacking the opposition only makes the public see them as angry and divisive. The fact that they are angry and divisive owes more to history than to this campaign specifically.

From the same article:

But the Democrat is now firing back - branding 72-year-old McCain as an economic illiterate stuck in the pre-internet era...

Appalling, stereotyped and wrong.

McCain is no luddite. He cannot use computers himself because of the torture dished out to him as a POW. From all reports he is a voracious user of the internet, it's just that he needs to get his staff and family to do the searching and typing for him.

Experience? 1-0 Palin

A little from Piers Akerman in his column in the Daily Telegraph today:

Obama is possibly the least experienced person ever to run for US
president, having a resume as thin as rice paper and a sad history of
cultivating the wrong people throughout his brief career.

and

McCain’s experience would bring a unique wisdom to the top job. His running mate, Palin, is an experienced reformer. She has the scalps and the moose stew on the stove to prove it.