McCain, Obama: The Authenticity Gap
What’s left of the real Barack Obama and John McCain after all this nonstop being seen and heard? If Obama wins the prize Tuesday, it may be, behind all the political jabber, a victory in the media war of attrition not to lose his authentic self.
After eight years of having a beer with a nobody-there George W. Bush, voters gave the nominations to candidates who appeared to be most themselves–Obama over the seen-as-calculating Hillary Clinton, McCain over an empty suit known as Mitt Romney.
If McCain goes down, it will be due mainly to his mystifying decision to keep being the semi-fictitious figure required to appease the Far Right in the primaries and not reverting to the straight talker who won over so many media people and independent voters in 2000.
John F. Kennedy summed up the problem in 1960 saying he sometimes felt sorry for Richard Nixon: “It must be hard getting up every morning trying to decide who you’re going to be that day.”
In these past months, there have been too many McCains, with only rare glimpses of the real one, who has fittingly enough surrounded himself with fictitious figures like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber.
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2 Responses to “McCain, Obama: The Authenticity Gap”
If a psychologist was consulted on body-language alone who they thought would be the best president, there wouldn't even be a contest.
I think the biggest killer of the McCain campaign is his telling body language. Body language doesn't lie….ever. McCain next to Obama is one of the starkest contrasts you can see. McCain's body language screams; “latent anger”, “rigidity”, “insecurity”, “residual fear”, “lack of confidence” and most substantive..”insincere”. Don't believe me? Watch him and count the number of times he blinks vs Obama. It's like 40 to 1, or close to it.
The blinking thing means “I'm hiding something significant from you. It's something I know is bad but I'm going to do it anyway, (or already have done it anyway) in spite of what morality dictates.”
Maybe McClown is just hiding the fact that this is the real McCain.
Or the body language could be a sign of disgust with his selling his soul to Tucker Eskew's after what that slimeball and group did to his adopted daughter.