While Mytheos Holt’s hermeneutic reading of the Bush and Obama electoral campaigns (“Mytheology: Four More Years?” Sept. 23, 2008, Volume CXLIV, Number 7) intrigued me as an English major, I find fault with his idea that a similarity in tone forewarns practical parallels in policy. It’s almost like they’re both saying they can save America! Well, yeah. Presidential candidates tend to say that, whether they’re marketed as Chicago’s messianic son or Arizona’s warrior king.
That having been said, perhaps rather than voting based on tone, it would be most wise to vote for the politician whose policies seem most sound and consistent. So far, particularly in his seemingly cosmetic nomination of Sarah Palin as vice president, but also in his flip-flopping on campaign finance, abortion and torture, McCain seems the less stable candidate, and the more likely to cave to what I view as a dangerous contingent. I disagree with many of his principles, but what’s worse is that he seems to have lost track of them himself.
But at least I can be assured that, if elected, he would “fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God.” Hallelujah!
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