McCain 2008 is Like 80s Bowie
August 22nd 2008 07:34
You know how David Bowie’s music in the 80s was really terrible? I’m watching a ‘Best of Bowie’ DVD right now and it’s just hit ‘D.J.’, and I’m trying not to acknowledge that it sucks, but it does. It’s so bad that my dogs keep looking at me after each particularly loud riff, clearly thinking, “What the hell, woman?!” The poor boys are trying to nap, after all. They don’t need this kind of guff. But I still have a huge amount of respect and admiration for David Bowie, even though it’s all been a bit downhill since ‘Diamond Dogs’.
McCain 2008 is the 80s Bowie to McCain 2000’s ‘Hunky Dory’. Instead of independently minded – if slightly less mainstream – classics like ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Life on Mars’, McCain 2008 is singing the political equivalent of the God-awful ‘Dancing in the Streets’ duet with Mick Jagger (for our purposes, George Bush). It makes sense, sadly enough, but around a quarter of the US populace still approves of Bush, and that quarter might turn up to the polls in November. McCain needs them if he’s going to stop making ‘cult classics’ and start producing some triple-platinum records. [And with that, my analogy is officially strained to breaking point! Good work for staying with me, everyone!]
To be fair, I think it’s impossible to judge what kind of president someone would be, based on a campaign. All a campaign proves is whether or not you’re a good salesman. McCain, if he wins, might land himself a place amongst the greats (just as Obama might surpass his Beatles-circa-‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ status as a “craze” and end up producing a presidency that’s considered a classic, much like ‘Sgt. Pepper’ or ‘Abbey Road’. But that’s another post). Bowie did eventually make ‘Heathen’ and ‘Reality’, after all.
McCain 2008 is the 80s Bowie to McCain 2000’s ‘Hunky Dory’. Instead of independently minded – if slightly less mainstream – classics like ‘Quicksand’ and ‘Life on Mars’, McCain 2008 is singing the political equivalent of the God-awful ‘Dancing in the Streets’ duet with Mick Jagger (for our purposes, George Bush). It makes sense, sadly enough, but around a quarter of the US populace still approves of Bush, and that quarter might turn up to the polls in November. McCain needs them if he’s going to stop making ‘cult classics’ and start producing some triple-platinum records. [And with that, my analogy is officially strained to breaking point! Good work for staying with me, everyone!]
To be fair, I think it’s impossible to judge what kind of president someone would be, based on a campaign. All a campaign proves is whether or not you’re a good salesman. McCain, if he wins, might land himself a place amongst the greats (just as Obama might surpass his Beatles-circa-‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ status as a “craze” and end up producing a presidency that’s considered a classic, much like ‘Sgt. Pepper’ or ‘Abbey Road’. But that’s another post). Bowie did eventually make ‘Heathen’ and ‘Reality’, after all.
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