Disillusionment and the Republican Machine

I feel like a broken record on this point, but it is becoming increasingly clear the Republicans have nothing to offer the country except lies and fear mongering. The latest book by right wing wing-nut Corsi just further exemplifies the growing desperation of a party that has run out of ideas and inspiration:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403057_pf.html

Obama is a candidate that is addressing what to me is the biggest issue in American politics for 30 years now -- a post-60s cynicism that allows emotion, fear and hatred to trump sensible decision-making by the American people. There are obvious signs that many have had enough of these tactics, but it remains to be seen if McCain can sneak into the presidency with the same tired politics first effectively used by Bush Sr. Even some evangelicals are starting to question the tax cut, support the rich and corporations policy the Republicans have been shoveling since Reagan: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403446_pf.html.

I look forward to the conventions, when at least the spectacle that American politics has become will not be swelled up in the lies and race baiting that has been going on for months (lest us forget by Hillary Clinton). One of the most absurd claims I've noticed while watching the Olympics and the rash of political ads I've had to endure is that Obama's economic policy will implicitly cost jobs. Are we so historically myopic that we can't remember that the last tax increase (under Clinton) led to one of the longest economic booms in years. I have problems about how the benefits of that boom were distributed across the hidden American class system, but they certainly overwhelm the increasing poverty, joblessness and threats to the middle class that a Bush presidency has been (beside increasing the income and wealth gaps, right as corporate profits rose precipitiously). What Obama does bring to the table is a more sensible economic policy together with the ability to inspire. Hopefully that will be enough to undermine the empty campaign McCain and his supporters are running.