We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose This Thing
Obama and Biden should also create a “master sound bite sentence” and repeat it hundreds of times. It should be so true that even the corporations can’t screw with it when it makes the airwaves. Here’s my attempt: “Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming…no more.”
This race should be about whether the Republican Party is going to be dismantled or not after the borderline treason of the past eight years. But instead it is about making the word “community organizer” a dirty word and a beauty queen who shoots foxes from a plane. Someone is not in any way doing their job and it’s the press. Or more specifically, that job no longer exists.
Probably the worst offenders are the pundits who take the position that it’s all just a game and say phrases like “getting a post-convention bump” or “playing to the soccer Moms.” This isn’t a game of Monopoly or Survivor. There are real truths that exist outside of the spin they are given and have an effect on lives. 250,000 Iraqi civilians are dead because we let our reality be distorted by the most effective propaganda machine in fifty years, the corporate American press.
Too much faith here in the system. Obama versus McCain: both will serve capital. The worst stuff in my lifetime happened under the gold-plated liberal Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, the ten-fold increase in troops to Viet Nam and carpet bombing of the north. The greatest benefits to me came under conservative Republican Nixon, in the form of the CETA federal make-work program that gave me a tutroing job after college and made me a paid academic. Ditto in Israel: the Labor party does the worst bullship and Likud evacuates troops from Gaza. The party differences are less than superficial.
Comment by Hap — September 10, 2008 @ 1:08 am
I think in this election we have a choice between making history . . . or repeating it.
Comment by Paul Lamb — September 10, 2008 @ 1:00 pm