I no am no longer sure that I am capable of expressing the horror that I feel at what happened this Wednesday night at the Biden/Palin debate and the subsequent reaction of the American media.
Sarah Palin is driving the news.
The operational ideas that are now in effect regarding the Palin candidacy are:
Call me anything, but call me often.-Mae West
and
Write about me what you will, but spell my name right. (Universal wisdom amongst press agents.)
Sarah Palin is being marketed as a celebrity candidate…the representative from Paris Hilton/Miley Cyrus-land…and it is working!!!
Sarah Palin posing with her real base.
I would not be in the least bit surprised should McCain again begin to fall in the polls…there is a noticeable bounce today from Palin’s triumphant Thursday survival, if you haven’t noticed…to see leaked pictures of her flashing her pudenda while getting out of a car or having a “wardrobe malfunction”.
I thought that American politics had fallen as low as it could go when Nixon ran.
I then revised my estimate when I witnessed Reagan’s rise.
I further lowered my expectations when I watched Bush II’s two campaigns…I mean, he made even poor old, doddering Reagan look like some sort of communication genius…but now they have sunk to absolute rock-bottom, sub-sub-basement levels.
The walking corpse of McCain and some housewife/tomboy/bimbo are running an effective campaign against a Senator who is possibly the most eloquent public speaker that we have seen in America in about 150 years and a 35+ year Senate veteran who is a real governmental pro.
The dumbing down of America has finally achieved its goal.
Some working majority of the American people is now totally incapable of rational thought in the face of media manipulators’ use of image.
RIP, USA
Win lose or draw for Obama…I think that it is all over. Even if he wins 51% to 49%, this dumbing-down process will continue.
Aprés lui? Le déluge.
Think on it.
Conditions in this country are approaching crisis levels; the previous 8 years have been a total failure for the Republicans, and yet they are still managing to mount an effective campaign. Not only that, but they are doing so with a couple of terrible candidates if judged by any objective standards whatsoever.
What do you think will happen after 4 more years of media terror? The percentage of brain dead Americans rises every day.
Mother of God!!!
Is this the end of Rico!!!???
I am beginning to think that maybe it is.
Let us pray.
And then let us NEWSTRIKE!!!
I see no other solution.
Cripple the corporate media or die.
Bet on it.
Later…
AG
Tips?
Recs?
Practical suggestions regarding how to start a real NEWSTRIKE!!! movement?
This shit has got to end.
Later…
AG
The financial meltdown will take care of the dumbing down of America.
No it won’t.
It only provides an opportunity, and a small one at that.
The lefties I know–the LEFTIES, mind you–are still clueless, have never heard of Argentina, are barely aware of Naomi Klein and aren’t really convinced that “Shock Doctrine” could be describing the way things work in THIS country (America is special).
I know I am a bit negative, so usually I just talk about the garden. This has been a good year: It has done great. Then they think I am weird, but that is okay: I will seem less weird when there is no food in the stores and everyone is starving. Until that day arrives, though, weird I am and it will not be changing.
EVERYONE believes in the system, and thinks: Well, maybe it does need some fixing, but we can do that. As a former near-hippy I am just appalled. What was rotten in the 1960s has not gotten less rotten in four decades, I can assure you. Our word then for the fake and the phony was “plastic” and America has only become–metaphorically and literally–more plastic than ever.
Civilizations built on resource-extraction have a built in sell-by date. We have passed ours. This is what it looks like, folks. This scene has been seen before and it does not get better.
So when the Greater Depression finally hits the street (and you bank account and pension are gone) will folks be ready to listen? But that is no help: The media will be right in there ahead of you with a new lie. Rather: Will they be ready to THINK?
Maybe. It might be good to already be doing whatever you think to be doing, because words won’t count for much in the general confusion.
Walk the walk. There will be no end to talk: People want solutions, and there are none. But there WILL be a new Ponzi scheme for each stage of the way down.
I grant you your points but I’ll repeat
The financial meltdown will take care of the dumbing down of America.
because 9.5 out of 10 Americans won’t be able to cope. They’ll see they’ve been had by the MSM and Powers that Be. There’s a transformation of the ultimate, as you put it, Ponzi scheme unfolding and not yet observable to the masses. There’s no solution to a quadrillion of debt.
Btw, smart of you to put in a garden. It was a good year for us too…we’ve been canning, freezing and storing ALL other food and essentials…
There is nothing like impending, unstoppable doom to focus the mind. Fear is one thing, doom is another.
We’re are now in the doom zone.. where the fear mongers’ product turns on them and bites their asses. Their hand has been over played.
We can no longer act threatened or scared. We must lead to survive and that is the image Obama has chosen, quite astutely to project.
He WILL win enough states in truth, but we all know the counting of votes is dubious at best in the US nowadays, and IMHO, the outcome will be 51-52% McCain..
Racism will provide the justification for the discrepancy between polls and outcome: people just lied in the polls to sound good, but got all racist in the voting booth, they’ll say. In fact it’s already been said.
Why is McCain/Palin doing so well when the country has been so poorly run by the Republicans?
His name is BARACK OBAMA!!!
He is AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!!
If I had told you 6 years ago that an African American was going to be the Democratic nominee, and be leading in the polls against McCain by 6-8 points ( !!!!!!! ) with a month to go you would have told me I was insane.
To someone like me, who remembers living in de facto sun down towns, and frequented what was at that time one of the largest malls in the WORLD that completely excluded blacks, it is stunning.
And not a little reaffirming that with all our troubles, there is still a little hope for America.
nalbar
America, nalbar.
But until a predator is dead…it’s dangerous.
And it is most dangerous when cornered.
White supremacist America is not dead. Not yet it isn’t, and it will not be dead for at least a couple of generations even under the best of circumstances. It is alive in the terminally dumbed down 30% that stills support Bush, and it lives in positions of real power all over the country. At the top of banks, at the top of insurance companies and other megacorps, at the top of the military and the PermaGov and the police and the Blackwater-like mercenary corps.
Bet on it.
You write:
Yes, I would have.
But there is many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip, as my lovely grandmother so often told me.
And as I have painfully learned over the ensuing many years, sometimes even when you that damned cup up there, what’s inside is not exactly what you had hoped it would be.
It ain’t over until Big Mama Thornton sings.
Watch.
AG
Once again, the GOP’s plan is serving up enough lies to absolve the populace of straight racism. This weekend it’s the Ayers card with Smilin’ Sister Sarah twisting the knife in as she goes around America accusing Obama of being a terrorist sympathizer.
BOOGA BOOGA SCARY BLACK MAN BLOOGITY BLAH BLAH REZKO TERRORIST BILL AYERS SCARY BLAH BOOGA BLAH SECRET MUSLIM ANTICHRIST!
That’s all they have on the surface. But that’s not all they have to play. Granted, that’s kept them within election stealing/disenfranchisement distance in a number of key states where there are Republican Secretaries of State: Colorado, Florida, Indiana, and West Virginia.
Those are the states we need to keep an eye on. If you take those four states out of Obama’s column, can he still win?
You know what? If you give those states to McCain, Obama still must win either Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, or Missouri to win the election. If he wins one of those four states and carries the states he’s ahead in now, he has no problem.
But if he loses all four of those states and New Hampshire, John McSame is the next President of the United States.
Take those four key states out of Obama’s reach now: Florida, WV, Indiana and Colorado will magically go 51-48% in McSame’s favor.
They’re pulling out of Michigan because they don’t need it to win. They’re counting on the lies to win them in Ohio, NC, VA, and Missouri and the stealing to win the other four. All McSame has to do in that situation is get one more state and he’s President.
And if he doesn’t?
If he takes those eight states, plus Montana, he has 269 electoral votes. Obama can’t win.
Why did he pull out of Michigan? He doesn’t need it. He doesn’t need Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nevada, or New Mexico either.
He can steal even a small state and win, like New Hampshire. Nobody will bat an eye if NH ends up 50-49 in McSame’s favor.
Ohio and Florida are still McSame’s keys. But they are scared now. They are out of options. They are cornered animals. And in the next 30 days they will make their final play.
Keep things close enough to steal and blame it on racism of the electorate. They’ve done it before. They know how to do it. They will try again. This time they will have to do a perfect, near undetectable job to pull it off.
Only vigilance will stop them.