Up, Simba

Much like Maya Lin's article Making the Memorial, I felt like Wallace's Up, Simba was very conversational. He seems to make it clear that this article is just him describing the election exactly the way it went down through his eyes. Wallace takes us behind the scenes of the rhetoric used by the politicians in this election. It seems to me that Wallace is trying to say that the whole process is just a bunch of politicians scamming people into voting for them because they ultimately are trying to "become the most powerful, important, and talked-about human being on earth." I think he is trying to point out that it is important to look into what a politician like McCain is really trying to achieve when he says "I run for president not be Be Somebody, but to Do Something." So pretty much he wants the youth of America to be less selfish and more involved with the issues of our country or is this just another way get the youth of American to vote for him. This reminds me of Kennedys line "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Isn't it all just a big scam to get us to believe in something that the politicians themselves probably don't even believe in. I think Wallace does a good job of pointing out how ridiculous some of the candidate's one liners are that often persuade a whole audience to think that they are supporting something miraculous. When McCain says he will always tell the truth, the whole audience cheers but why? Wallace points out that many of us won't agree on his truth that the gun laws are safe or that MLK's birthday shouldn't be a holiday in Arizona but who cares, as long as he is telling the truth everything will be ok!