So right now Obama supporters are worried that the election has become less about the issues, and more about a war between personalities.
This is hilarious, given that the latest Obama attack ad paints John McCain as an old man who doesn't know how to use email. Oh poor, funny old John - he's just a dithering, odd-smelling coot, who still uses a land line and thinks the Samoan maid is stealing from him.
Let's get some things straight. The entire Obama campaign has never been about issues - it's always been a cult of personality - the personality being Obama, and the cult being his slavish followers, with Chris Matthews as a far less stable version of David Koresh. It's only been since Palin entered the picture that the Democrats have started screaming about issues. Which, oddly, have been there all along.
And it's the same ones that have been around for the last forty years. Taxes. War. Security. Unicorns. But the fact is, on these issues, Obama is not a reformer - he's as conventional as a bloated, butt-pinching bureaucrat - except he's thin and doesn't pinch butts. The biggest issue in the world is staring him right in the face - it's called terror - but he's lost in the rhetoric of root causes.
And as for being internet savvy, I'd rather have a president who talks tough, instead of some dude known for his snarky emails. I don't want my president Googling his name, reading celebrity sightings on Gawker, or leaving anonymous comments on TMZ. Our country is already turning into a nation of twelve year old girls, looking for popular kids to sign their yearbook - except those yearbooks are now blogs, and those blogs don't even have hot pictures of cheerleaders with eating disorders.
And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler.