The Wall
In America we have a wall that needs to be overcome.
John McCain has offered 51% of Americans an opportunity they never thought possible, and it came from the party of change, the Republicans. The party that freed the slaves under Lincoln and gave 16 million veterans the right of appeal under Reagan. Yet I am constantly told that it is an old boys club that will not listen.
Senator McCain has some needs to address. I am proud of his service and do not think I could have gone through what he did in Vietnam and you don’t get to many concessions like that from Marines. The average American knows about it but can not identify with it. All too often those of us are veterans like to think we are the only people who know sacrifice, and that is just not the case.
The unsung heroes of this society are the average women out there that work in the service sector, the waitresses and bartenders. They have no lobbying group out there for them, and the majority have no trade unions or association looking out on there behalf. The are free floaters in this society, and that is scary stuff. Some have advanced educations and family support and some do not.
This is the group John McCain has given a new form of hope they never imagined. But there has really been no attempt to court this crowd by the party. These women are what keeps this country going and they need to be told that. They know that he refers to them when he talks about health care but they do not see him. This must change.
Recently I was going through Queen Noor’s biography and glossed over as with most elite people in the world. Raised in connected family, Ivy Leage, blah, blah, blah. Then I saw it , and hit me like brick, she saw fit to mention she had been a waitress in Colorado in her youth. She now had credibility in my book, she learned politics the old fashioned way, one forced smile at a time.
The point is McCain and Palin need to get out there talk directly to this crowd. They don’t want them to be their chums, they want them to be their leaders. I have one little secret I learned years ago in the bar business, if you have the women’s attention, you get the men’s real quick. The young voters deserve to be fawned over this time and not just the students. The invisible wall of the service sector needs to breeched.
Senator McCain…tear down that wall.
John McCain has offered 51% of Americans an opportunity they never thought possible, and it came from the party of change, the Republicans. The party that freed the slaves under Lincoln and gave 16 million veterans the right of appeal under Reagan. Yet I am constantly told that it is an old boys club that will not listen.
Senator McCain has some needs to address. I am proud of his service and do not think I could have gone through what he did in Vietnam and you don’t get to many concessions like that from Marines. The average American knows about it but can not identify with it. All too often those of us are veterans like to think we are the only people who know sacrifice, and that is just not the case.
The unsung heroes of this society are the average women out there that work in the service sector, the waitresses and bartenders. They have no lobbying group out there for them, and the majority have no trade unions or association looking out on there behalf. The are free floaters in this society, and that is scary stuff. Some have advanced educations and family support and some do not.
This is the group John McCain has given a new form of hope they never imagined. But there has really been no attempt to court this crowd by the party. These women are what keeps this country going and they need to be told that. They know that he refers to them when he talks about health care but they do not see him. This must change.
Recently I was going through Queen Noor’s biography and glossed over as with most elite people in the world. Raised in connected family, Ivy Leage, blah, blah, blah. Then I saw it , and hit me like brick, she saw fit to mention she had been a waitress in Colorado in her youth. She now had credibility in my book, she learned politics the old fashioned way, one forced smile at a time.
The point is McCain and Palin need to get out there talk directly to this crowd. They don’t want them to be their chums, they want them to be their leaders. I have one little secret I learned years ago in the bar business, if you have the women’s attention, you get the men’s real quick. The young voters deserve to be fawned over this time and not just the students. The invisible wall of the service sector needs to breeched.
Senator McCain…tear down that wall.
Comments
Hey, Chris-
The problem is that if McCain manages to get the attention of the service sector, he has nothing to say to them. Health care? Here's a $5000 credit that won't help for long as basic costs increase. And let's sell insurance across state lines, opening it up wide so the industry will inevitably gear itself towards the young and healthy and only get more expensive for the old and sick. And we all get old and sick, eventually.
All he and Palin have are those forced smiles you mentioned.
Thom
Posted by: Thom D. | October 14, 2008 02:38 PM