The ALCAIDE’S CAFE

In a more serious vein… these are thoughts I’ve come up with as I listen to the chatter and arguments every night in the cafe:
It’s getting harder than ever to have a serious and meaningful political debate, discussion, or campaign because of the “Sippet-Gotcha” syndrome: the political campaigns’ use of tiny bits of something someone says […]

I don’t know why I’m writing about this incident. Maybe its the “handicap” connection. My last piece was about the handicaps of John Mcain, and the Obama campaign’s ignorance, or disregard, or really cruel disregard of them whiling trying to score a gain via political smear. This one is hardly as nasty a case, but rather a somewhat […]

“Didya see that ‘Bama ad?”, he asked me (he, a cafe regular, is a Viet-vet about Mcain’s age), ”They’re trying to smear McCain: too old and so out of it he doesn’t even use computers or email!”
“I did!” I said. “I gotta admit, the ad does make you wonder if McCain is up to speed or enough in touch with the world today.”
“That’s exactly it!” he answered. “After all ‘Bama’s […]