McDiculous

VIEWPOINT

By RALPH HARDIN

Evening Times Editor

By the time you read this, hundreds of your fellow Crittenden County residents will have already votes. The election is now just two weeks away (just two more weeks… just two more weeks…), so it’s coming down to the wire.

In an effort to… well, I don’t, know, seem more relatable to the working class voter or something, former president Donald Trump decided to spend a little time “working” at McDonald’s the other day. Cool, I guess. Maybe since Vice President Kamala Harris worked at McDonald’s while in college, he needed to prove that he could man the fry station or whatever too.

If that resonated with you in some meaningful way, that’s fine.

I thought it was just pandering and silly. Not to single Trump out here or anything. I also think it’s pandering and silly when Harris decided to up her “urban” dialect when speaking in front

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of Black voters. And watching the Vice Presidential debate a few weeks ago, it was pretty funny watching both Tim Walz and J.D.

Vance as they were heaping on the good ol’ folksy, Midwestern charm and seeing who could do it the mostest of all, gosh darnit…

This isn’t anything new.

Barack Obama knew exactly when to take his audience “to church” and Sarah Palin did her best to get her image of being “a hockey mom” out to her audience.

Way back in the 1800s, it was a great campaign tool to tout a candidate as being “born in a log cabin.” I mean, what’s a better way to convey someone’s humble beginnings than that?

Fun fact: No less than seven U.S. presidents were born in log cabins. Jackson, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and Garfield.

Nobody tell Trump or Harris this, though, or we’ll get pics of one of them in the woods, splitting logs…