How McCain's case of "Obama Envy" will be McCain's downfall!

We might as well want to pity John McCain for his intense "Obama Envy" in the immediate future. Although he may not yet know it, this is why John McCain will lose the election, unfortunately for him.

How do I come to this conclusion?

John McCain witnessed 250,000 Europeans taking time out of their day to come hear Barack Obama speak at a gigantic rally in Germany. Poor John McCain, who couldn't compete chose to deride Obama's popularity instead. Loudly and repeatedly, he called Obama a celebrity not ready to lead. The Question that remains? Why would anyone want to vote for the candidate that cannot draw a crowd? Let alone why would one want such a candidate to lead them? The world is 4 to 1 in favor of an Obama presidency...and yet that is not desirable? Is that really the case? Personally and secretly, neither I nor John McCain really think so.

John McCain, after talking up Barack Obama's lack of experience, decidedly named a Vice Presidential choice who is way less experienced than Barack could ever be. The media, seizing on the "new excitement" injected into the McCain campaign, tried about as hard as they sold us the Iraq war, to sell us Gov. Palin. She's a "Rock Star" they announced; a formidable presence on the ticket, they exclaimed; a real "game changer" they concluded! And so, ad-nausea and in unison, the corporate press compared Palin to Obama for two straight weeks. The problem for McCain is that, once the dust settles, the message remaining will be; John McCain chose to put on his ticket, an "Obama Wannabe"; someone who could stir his base as much as Obama stirs his. This really is just another sign to the world that McCain just might have a case of "Obama Envy".

Then John McCain, who has been campaigning on experience, dropped his own campaign slogan altogether and ripped off Barack Obama's instead. To date, did John McCain even have a slogan, and if he did, what was it? If you can't remember, then you see the obvious problem John McCain has. McCain's blatant attempts to steal Barack's message for Change exemplifies again that John McCain has "Obama Envy". And the question is, why would anyone want to vote for a man who demonstrates so clearly that he, himself, lacks any original ideas? Why vote for a bad imitation, when one can vote for the real thing? Be mindful that the candidate with the distinct and consistent message usually wins the election, e.g., "It's the economy Stupid".

Meanwhile, to his calculated delight, John McCain's Sarah started attracting crowds; hailed as record breaking by a breathless fawning media. The women are ordering Sara Glasses, they giddily reported. Of course this is oddly similar to the stories of women buying up Michelle's dress after she appeared on The View. Problem is as later reported, crowd size at the record breaking rallies didn't live up to their billing; 8,000-9,000 as opposed to 23,000 is quite a deflation for the McCain Camp. Evidently, trying hard to be "Obama" is not as easy as it sounds.

So I humbly suggest that we take in consideration as "Signs" the following documented oddities: The Republicans prayed for rain to fall during Obama's convention speech, but instead were gifted by Hurricanes for their own. That Republicans mocked the Mile High stadium "styrofoam" columns (actually Dem backdrop was a replica of the Back of the WH), but what they got was a giant house that appeared on a giant screen during McCain's own speech. More of a sign than that was the appearance of the dreaded green screen behind McCain, which was in truth even more ironic; a green lawn. Eerily, the lawn of the wrong building (for which they got flack from building owners afterwards) which made a striking contrast to the well orchestrated convention that Obama and the Dem's flawlessly executed; a contrast in where McCain didn't look so good.

So please, those who believe that the sky is falling and John McCain might win this thing, spare me! He won't. The many reasons why may not have crystallized for you yet, but they have for me. You see, John McCain's greatest pitfall in this election, when one day we look back, was that John McCain would have rather been Barack Obama than to be who he was as a candidate.

The analysts will then understand, and no matter the anxieties you currently feel; McCain's biggest downfall was his great big bad case of "Obama Envy".

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You mentioned Obama's European trip and drawing 250,000 people.

My advice: keep bringing those big events on. I think that's a good point...why WOULD you vote for a candidate that can't draw big crowds? Sarah "in what respect, Charlie?" (I SO want a t-shirt with that. :-)) Palin is going to do some solo events, now. It will be sad to watch that lying, old sack of shit and the pathetic crowds he'll be drawing by himself. And having his snotty, rich wife dripping in jewels by his side isn't going to help.

So, Barack, bring the huge crowds on! Fill football stadiums. I'd suggest having a rally here in Chicago at Soldier Field...except I don't see much of a point having Obama/Biden campaign here in Illinois...since they'll win the state by at least 80%. :-)

Good post.

McCain has Obama envy, and Palin is an "Obama Wannabe". That will not add up to a winning ticket....because Obama's name is all in there! :rofl:

From Maverick to Mudslinger! Obama envy, indeed, from an old, flaccid, limp has been. No one I've talked to that's voting likes McPain

embrace from his country after his POW release. He wants those monster crowds cheering for him, and the more he doesn't get them, the more obsessed he becomes.

His ticker parade as long gone home. He knows it, and because he knows that he hasn't done anything to warrent the parade to reconvene for a second hailing, he is at a lose as to what to do. Afterall, he is offering nothing new to this country, not in the way he campaigns, and not in the way that he promises to govern. In otherwords, there's no more there there for John McCain, and the only thing that he has as an option is to mimick Barack, and hope no one notices. That's just not what a winner projects in my book. Even Bush in his run against Gore had more to offer than McCain has now. There is no newness, no crispness in anything that McCain says and does. His selection of Palin will be historically hailed as his biggest mistake; what made his campaign go downhill more than it could, if that's possible. You see, his "Country First" mantra, does not add up at all to anyone looking when thinking about Sarah Palin. That disconnect is here to stay; McCain tried to win an election at the cost of this country. That's a big fat down arrow, no matter how it is spinned.

However I disagree that it is Obama that he is envious of.

It is Bush envy.

He learned his lessons in 2000 and now he is trying to out bush Bush.

If he was truly envious of Obama he would be envious of the high road that Obama took and want to emulate that.

McCain is trying hard as he can to get to the WH the same Rovian path that Bush took.

problem is that what he says is not what the campaign has done. McCain had diluted himself into believing that we only hear what he says, and that we don't see what his campaign does. He is captive to his own spin. He does think that we are that stupid....and I believe that a large majority of Americans, simply are not.

accidentally ended up with Palin instead of Ridge.


He chose his campaign and he specifically went out of his way to get rid of his 2000 campaign people to get Rove's number one prodigy. They veto his VP choice but he accepts it.

You give McCain way too much credit.

At the end of the day he is the one that says, "I am John McCain and I approve of these lies and slander on Obama".


He has not tried to emulate Obama he has gone whole hog (pun intended) on Bush's road.


I do agree with you that his primary motivation is tremendous envy. He envied other guys wives who were not broken by an automobile crash so he dumped his wife and chased a young rich one. He envied the fact that Democrats were accepted by the intellegentsia and the media so he played a maverick so that he could get the kind of attention none of the other Republicans could.

Now that he is on his last chance campaign he is consumed by envy. He went to all of the people that kicked him when he was down in 2000. He learned their ways and hired their people. After he is soundly defeated in a landslide and returns to a Senate where his own party will not follow him and the Democrats will no longer respect him he will become the most pitiful figure in the Senate. My prediction is that he will quit the Senate fairly early and go the Gerald Ford route - trying to get on as many boards as possible so he can grab as much money as he can. Why? Because he is driven by envy.

with what you say....

But at the end of day, I think my op was exactly to make my case, that whatever McCain says about Obama, in reality, McCain would rather be him than who he is...as far as the players in this particular campaign.

that he is driven by envy.


I think he is driven to win the election but quite frankly should he win I doubt that he would really give a shit about policy except for a few pet projects, I think for him its all about personal validation - envy. My points were made to agree with your main points and not distract from them.

I frankly think that McCain's motivation has not been examined enough and are as worrisome as his crazy pick for VP.

the American People. He evidenced that when he picked his Veep. That was a trade-off, one he will live to regret; a pact with the Devil sort of speak.

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Another great idea!

Can some of the great stuff I've seen here get to someone high up in Obama's campaign??

and his Obama envy is probably one of them.

However, I believe McCain's greatest weakness is his sense of "honor".

It's what he's running on and it's clearly being called into question by the media as lie after lie is being called out.

If the Media continue to do their job it will help to break down that facade of Honorable Warrior.

and he ain't gonna get it back.

Nicely Done! :kick:

I hope McCain's Obama Envy gets so pronounced that he too laces up the sneakers and plays some scrimmage game hoops with a college team.

and also kicking...cause I can! :)

Keep McCain out of the White House and put him in therapy where he belongs. It's long past time he resolves some of his issues with anger and consuming jealousy!

for not even knowing how many houses he had, this mortally wounded his campaign. And barely a week or so after that, upon Pelosi's gaveling of the Dem convention into adjournment - with no floor fist fights, nominee coup d'etats, or riots in the streets, and with people like Pat Buchanan left blubbering on the air and the rest of the faux pundits unable to speak... THAT was when the McLame campaign officially died.

At that point, what arose from the now-deceased campaign, were the undead. Evil zombies who are doing everything in their power to mock the American Presidential election process. They have displayed complete contempt for the American way of life when they persist in not only showing overt disdain for their own party by embracing that which was rejected and rejecting that which was standard party fare, but overtly crapping on the American voter with a completely fabricated candidate who continues to prevaricate about her record and merely reads her exact same speech at every campaign stop, without any change.

It really is a sad historical period for this country right now.

and so damn proud of their unamerican ways. :(

Very condescending to the View. Can't remember who asked her, but said oh, now, I'm not going to go into that...that's not what the campaign is about, yadayada.

Last night Maher said to John Fund, WSJ, how cynical he was to lie about things who knew were lies about McSame, to the American public and figuring they were so dumb they'd believe their lies.

Definitely, low point for country.

...it's Obama Envy.

much better than I could have ever in a 1000 years, the plain and simple truth of the situation!!

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Nate has a graph that shows the projected combined bounces for the two back to back conventions, done before either started and it is spot-on so far. It shows McCain gradually losing strength from now on, as the polls turn back toward Obama.

and his constant stupidity injected into his campaign are the result of too much Obama Envy.

I hope Obama makes him angry at the debates!

You should be in on their campaign strategy sessions. This is exactly what's going on. This is the best explanation I've heard for the Palin pick.

Let's just pray he doesn't take it too far and show up to the debates in "black face". :sarcasm:

is the day that he left that room without a soul.

I don't want a souless President, and I'm gonna make sure I do what I can to keep that from happening.

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Just like she's the former bitchy cheerleader who grew older and bitchier, he's the former jock who's been confronted with the fact that the nerds and geeks rule the real world.

His whole celebrity ad was fucking retarded because you could just see him eating his own hat out of sheer envy about Obama's "rock star" status.

K&R

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Great post...Is it okay to copy and send out?