Last week, UNC was honoured with the presence of two major U.S. Political Journalists: E.J. Dionne (The Washington Post - left photograph) and David Brooks (The New York Times- right photograph). As an international student, for me, this event represents an interesting opportunity to get involved firsthand with current American Politics. While the commentators analyzed both parties’ presidential campaign structures, a question arose in my mind. How would the prospective GOP administration structure its policies to deal with the current state of the U.S. economy?
Evidently, McCain has not coherently organized his political staff, as evidenced by the sudden nomination of Sarah Palin as his second-in-command (Vice President) just a few weeks before Election Day.
(Source:www.johnmccain.com)
In the speech, one of the analysts said “McCain is very bad in structures.” For constituents, this represents a threat; for the GOP, this is actually an opportunity. Structuring is how the candidate will “control” his Presidential team. Notwithstanding predicting how solid and coherent either of the candidates will be as President shall depend on the concrete solutions the candidates propose towards the final race; what shall voters anticipate of McCain if Palin’s appointment has been taken by the public as a venture? At first glance, McCain seems to be erratic. However, the GOP’s list is much more able to gain a point over the Democrats, whose incoherent discourse structure has been proved so far along the campaign. Given McCain’s expertise on military strategies, this is now the time to fairly compete with stratagems not with fallacies. Economy is a very rational issue to work in.
(Source: abc news)
Whether Obama or McCain becomes President, each of them has to take steps on their discourse weaknesses and go beyond their present perspective. Should they not, then, counter factual conditionals would arise not only to voters but to those next presiding the Oval Office. This is not the time to experiment. The White House is just the starting point; and, electors shall vote taking this into account.
