Just 'aving a laugh
By Creature
"[W]e all ought to relax a little bit. It's, it's a bit of humor." -- Joe Lieberman on Meet the Press.
If you watched the Sunday talk shows today, one thing was clear: to John McCain, and his surrogates, this presidential campaign is all about 'aving a laugh.
Negative ads? Pshaw. We all need to lighten up. Questioning a Senator's patriotism? It's no big deal because we're having fun at the same time. Using troops as props? Who, us? We're just taking a piss. Subtly using race to brand a Senator as scary? Come on, playing on people's racism is so Jon Stewart. Lying to make these points? Please, don't focus on the negative. It's all about the fun.
Except it's not.
(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
"[W]e all ought to relax a little bit. It's, it's a bit of humor." -- Joe Lieberman on Meet the Press.
If you watched the Sunday talk shows today, one thing was clear: to John McCain, and his surrogates, this presidential campaign is all about 'aving a laugh.
Negative ads? Pshaw. We all need to lighten up. Questioning a Senator's patriotism? It's no big deal because we're having fun at the same time. Using troops as props? Who, us? We're just taking a piss. Subtly using race to brand a Senator as scary? Come on, playing on people's racism is so Jon Stewart. Lying to make these points? Please, don't focus on the negative. It's all about the fun.
Except it's not.
(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
Labels: 2008 election, Barack Obama, John McCain, negative ads
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4:24 PM
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We Americans Owe Our Souls to the Company Store
Judging by the uninspiring and dispassionate campaign launched by the McCain camp, one can conclude that the current regime along with the entire Republican ‘leadership,’ are completely unconcerned with the outcome of the November election, and with good reason. Last week, the White House announced that the next administration will inherit roughly, a 500 billion dollar debt. The question the American people continue to avoid is, to whom do we owe this astronomical sum? The answer, while ugly, is quite simple. We owe it to them. When Georgie W. took over the family business in 2001, he had one and only one goal: to establish a perpetual source of wealth for his father’s friends and the private interests who installed him in office. Through a campaign of lies, deceit, and propaganda he has achieved his goal.
It is astounding that, in the realm of global politics, the majority of Americans and, for that matter, most citizens of the world, find it easy to dismiss the obvious while embracing the absurd. The simple truth is that Georges Bush, Senior and Junior; Dick Cheney; David Addington; along with the entire Carlyle Group; are on the same payroll as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nouri Maliki, and Muqtada al-Sadr. These individuals will do anything necessary, independently or in cooperation with each other, to manipulate the price of oil. Let’s face it; it’s in their best interest.
John McCain, along with his cheerleaders continues to tout the fact that, contrary to Obama’s predictions, “the surge has worked.” In reality, the surge “worked” because agents of the United States government in collusion with representatives from the Big Three Oil Companies have made substantial cash deals with the warlords and gang leaders attempting to fill the power vacuum left by the Bathist Regime. Muqtada al-Sadr, now the highest paid extortionist in world history, has restrained his guns and has assumed the responsibility of turf assignment to his capos. The “surge” has merely kept the parties apart until the final deals could be finalized.
Furthermore, McCain somehow holds Obama responsible for rising oil prices by attributing the phenomenon to Obama’s past refusal to support offshore drilling (did I mention absurdity). It is a foregone conclusion that even if oil was extracted from these sights, it would not impact gasoline supplies for seven to ten years and the target market for this supply would be in China. More importantly, no American voting in the next election should be complacent with the prospect of driving a gasoline-powered vehicle ten years from today.
The American people have a single issue on the ballot: are we willing to allow big oil and special interests to dictate global policies of war and peace, environmental preservation, and economic stability? Are we willing to allow our children and grandchildren to kill and die for Exxon Mobil and Halliburton?
It’s time for America to embrace the obvious and reject the absurd. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and their entire multi-billion dollar propaganda machine must laugh themselves to sleep at night when they consider the following: for eight years they were successfully able to convince the American people that the American heartland, with the most powerful military in the world; with the most technologically sophisticated intelligence apparatus known to science; one which boasts of the ability to read a license plate from outer space; is under constant threat of attack by an international terrorist network with a capacity to strike at a moment’s notice that is commanded by three individuals operating from a cave in Afghanistan. Nice work Dick. In the final analysis, even if the Republicans lose the Presidential election and every seat in the legislature, they will still be in power by order of the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
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Anonymous, at 5:59 PM
It's sad that there are people like you who are so out of touch with reality. Everything has to be a conspiracy, doesn't it.
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Anonymous, at 6:47 PM
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