‘Experience’ is just a cover for age.

John McCain is 72 years old. If he gets elected, he will be the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as President of the United States. He has numerous diagnosed and treated cancers, but should he survive into a second term he will be pushing 80! Maybe that is why he is running. This is probably the only job he can apply for and hope to get at his advanced age.

Everybody knows that electing a young person does not guarantee that he or she will stay healthy throughout the term, but it is a hell of a lot more likely.

Do pigs wear lipstick?

A pig wearing lipstick is stil a pig!…

The immediaete thougt that crossed my mind after reading this was; Well, what else would it be, but a pig?…  At most a painted pig, I guess. Do pigs even at all wear lipstick except from Miss Piggy?

I simply do not get, why the Republicans want to make such a big fuzz out of Barack Obama´s lipstick metaphor. Of course it could obviously be understood as an anwer to Sarah Palin´s hockey mother vs. pittbull metaphor. But so what? Wouldn´t their time be spend better by hiring a communications expert to teach Sarah Palin eloquence and thereby learn to be able to avoid, that her own words fall back on her?

Actually I find it out of place when politicians use bad metaphors like the hockey mother vs. pittbull metaphor. The electors are better off with politicians that speak their minds and do not wrap up their messages and political statements in useless puns or idle talk.

 Metaphors and other verbal decoration can be used appropriate when you want to give your words cogency or make something abstarct become visible, and thereby leave a mark in the minds of your audience.

Sarah Palin´s hockey mother vs. pittbull metaphor has gotten a lot of attention now and will be remembered for a long time. But not because it was a good metaphor, because it really wasn´t, but because of Obama´s metaphor of pigs wearing lipstick. So maybe the Republicans should thank Obama for that instead of working themselves all up about it.

Presidential Election Campaign Finance

The Presidential Election is of course a money game, and this time it seams like their is an overwhelming favorite when it comes to funding.

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Do we tend to overlook the political point of views while concentrating on evaluating the moral character?

In a Danish newspaper it was resently claimed, that if the American presidential election was held in Denmark, Barack Obama would most likely be voted the next president, and that – among other things – as a result of the Danish media´s favouring exposure of Obama.I generally see Obama portrayed as an innovative and visionary candidate, while McCain is poetrayed the opposite way as a conservative and rooted candidate.

In Denmark our political system is founded on several different political parties divided into two main wings. But parties belonging to the same wing can easily have different political point of views and characteristic issues. The wings in Danish politics are therefore not synonymous with one person in the same way, as it is the case with the American presidential election.

In The United States, an important part of the electioneering campaign seems to be digging up dirt and smudging the canidates´ moral characters. Of course I find it important, that the people know the personal values and integrity of their candidates, and thereby can sort out hypocrits and double standards. The candidate whose moral character can go through this unhurt, has passed the ultimate test.

But winning a person´s vote is often a strange complex. I have met Danish people, who based their choice of which political party to support on their supposition of, who might be most likely to win the election. As well as I have met people who based their choice on their perception of an engaging and strong leader. But what about the political point of views, that the canidates stand for? Do we tend to overlook them in favour of concentrating on evaluating the candidate´s moral character?