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Sunday, April 20. 2008
ELITE!
Got an interesting Article found in the Edmunton Sun, sent by my dear friend Witchy.
All my love to you My Dear at this time.
It’s a Canadian’s view of the French view of the current campaigns for president. Barack Obama is clearly the favorite of not only the French but also the entire European Union. Obama is now my choice, has been for a while, but I wonder if an endorsement from the Europeans — the French in particular — could be damaging to Obama’s chances. We know how the Republican Hate Machine can churn out useless, non-sequitor hate ads and one thing they used during the run-up to the 2004 election was make the French our enemies and tie John Kerry and the Democrats to that particular enemy.
Not to mention, what the Europeans like about Senator Obama — he’s thoughtful, honest, decent and dignified — is what the Republican Hate Machine will use to create their hate ads once the general election rolls up. The image of Cowboy George, hacking away at brush in Texas, telling the terrorists and Iraqi insurgents to “bring it on,” is the image the neocons (who make up the Republican Hate Machine) will re-employ, with Senator John McCain as the new cowboy (and he’s from Arizona! Wyatt Earp country!).
Can’t imagine what McCain will be hacking away at in the political ads, but you can be sure there will be a definite cowboy theme at least floated in the general election. The Arizona Senator, bucking an A4 Skyhawk in the skies over North Vietnam and then riding a horse through the Arizona desert.
Never mind that McCain is just Bush-lite, with the same uninformed policies for our economy, trade, and the war in Iraq.
For so long one of the great attack themes from the Republican Hate Machine has been the “indictment” of being elitist, code word for thoughtful, honest, decent, dignified and intelligent candidates. Years ago, before he became Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich explained what an “elitist” is/was: the Democrats who cling to and promote the views found in the elite Ivy League colleges of the East, like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Columbia, Andover, et al. And of course these views were promoted in the elite circles of New York politics and to a worse extent, West Coast politics, which means San Francisco — HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL THE QUEERS! — and Hollywood — HOME OF ALL THEM BIG MOUTH CELEBRITY TYPES LIKE SEAN PENN AND MADONNA! Bet they’re queer too!
The irony, no, let’s call it for what it is, the hypocrisy of this “indictment:” Not only did Bush attend Yale and Harvard (for his MBA), but his neocon cabinet and many of his other advisors are alumni from these very institutions the Republican Hate Machine has used to bash Democrats as “elitist.” Bush’s two Supreme Court nominees, Samuel Alito, Princeton and Yale, John Roberts, Harvard all the way!
Vice President Cheney is the only member (or not a member?) of the Bush cabinet who didn’t attend an elite university. Actually, he didn’t graduate from any college, which is remarkable considering he used five deferments to avoid serving in the military during Vietnam.
So, the charge of “elitism” is more than transparent, it’s an outright lie. Sadly, the American populace isn’t too concerned with truth; image and perception are far more important. The perception currently pulling the wool over the public’s eyes: the surge in Iraq worked.
Despite the current bombings assassinations and other acts of violence that have rocked Iraq from Basra to Baghdad.
What’s troubling about the attack of “elite” currently being hurled at Senator Obama is who it is coming from: fellow Democrats, in particular those supporting Senator Hillary Clinton and Clinton herself. C’mon, we’re Democrats, we can do better than that! Clinton has employed Karl Rove tactics in her campaign and at the very least those actions have been embarrassing. More pointedly, they have turned off many Democratic voters who remember with bitterness in their hearts the swiftboats, and from the Lee Atwater era, Willie Horton.
Was Obama’s remarks elitist? That’s debatable, but they were the most honest words spoken by any candidate in this campaign season. People in the middle and lower middle class are bitter, and like true hide-their-heads-in-the-sand Americans, they deny it. But we can see it in the letters to the editors, read it on blogs, hear it in conversations — especially when it’s about Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan getting in trouble: make them pay a heavier price!; see it in the lack of attendance at the voting booth. And always, nearly always, the fault can be laid at: A) Those who don’t believe in God the same way we do, B) all those who want to take our guns away, and C) the most popular villains at this time, immigrants.
The embittered Americans use religion especially to denounce those they feel are the reason for all our current problems and the savvy politicians tap into that xenophobia and discontent and exploit it for votes.
The truth is; the jobs have been gone for 25 years or more and have not been replaced, unless you consider working at Wal-Mart for maybe 10 dollars an hour an adequate substitute for jobs that once paid twice that wage. The bitterness lingers, maybe not heavily, but just under the skin and when a blowhard like Limbaugh makes a case, perforated as it is, that involves one of these scapegoats, the people who listen to him tend to agree, ‘cause it sounds like it makes sense, doesn’t it?
In essence, Hillary Clinton, by calling Barack Obama “elitist,” is pandering to the Rush Limbaugh crowd. And it will backfire with Democratic voters.
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Is anyone else watching Pope Benedict’s Mass from Yankee Stadium? Religion is the root of all evil but it sure pretties up real good! At least this religion does. I was a good Cat’lick growing up and surprisingly, I can chant along with the Mass easily enough. Religion is ruining America and this broadcast hastens that destruction. But, like millions of other Americans, I gotta watch it.
Author Richard Dawkins has written another book, called The God Delusion. It will be on my reading list soon. Dawkins was on Real Time With Bill Maher the other night and made an interesting observation: most people claim to believe in “God” because they’ve been brought up to believe that and there is the perception, in this country, that if you don’t believe in “God” then there is something “wrong” with you. Maybe everyone who claims it, but doesn’t actually believe it, ought to read his book. Amen Richard Dawkins!
And welcome to America Pope Ben!
All my love to you My Dear at this time.
It’s a Canadian’s view of the French view of the current campaigns for president. Barack Obama is clearly the favorite of not only the French but also the entire European Union. Obama is now my choice, has been for a while, but I wonder if an endorsement from the Europeans — the French in particular — could be damaging to Obama’s chances. We know how the Republican Hate Machine can churn out useless, non-sequitor hate ads and one thing they used during the run-up to the 2004 election was make the French our enemies and tie John Kerry and the Democrats to that particular enemy.Not to mention, what the Europeans like about Senator Obama — he’s thoughtful, honest, decent and dignified — is what the Republican Hate Machine will use to create their hate ads once the general election rolls up. The image of Cowboy George, hacking away at brush in Texas, telling the terrorists and Iraqi insurgents to “bring it on,” is the image the neocons (who make up the Republican Hate Machine) will re-employ, with Senator John McCain as the new cowboy (and he’s from Arizona! Wyatt Earp country!).
Can’t imagine what McCain will be hacking away at in the political ads, but you can be sure there will be a definite cowboy theme at least floated in the general election. The Arizona Senator, bucking an A4 Skyhawk in the skies over North Vietnam and then riding a horse through the Arizona desert.
Never mind that McCain is just Bush-lite, with the same uninformed policies for our economy, trade, and the war in Iraq.
For so long one of the great attack themes from the Republican Hate Machine has been the “indictment” of being elitist, code word for thoughtful, honest, decent, dignified and intelligent candidates. Years ago, before he became Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich explained what an “elitist” is/was: the Democrats who cling to and promote the views found in the elite Ivy League colleges of the East, like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Columbia, Andover, et al. And of course these views were promoted in the elite circles of New York politics and to a worse extent, West Coast politics, which means San Francisco — HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL THE QUEERS! — and Hollywood — HOME OF ALL THEM BIG MOUTH CELEBRITY TYPES LIKE SEAN PENN AND MADONNA! Bet they’re queer too!The irony, no, let’s call it for what it is, the hypocrisy of this “indictment:” Not only did Bush attend Yale and Harvard (for his MBA), but his neocon cabinet and many of his other advisors are alumni from these very institutions the Republican Hate Machine has used to bash Democrats as “elitist.” Bush’s two Supreme Court nominees, Samuel Alito, Princeton and Yale, John Roberts, Harvard all the way!
Vice President Cheney is the only member (or not a member?) of the Bush cabinet who didn’t attend an elite university. Actually, he didn’t graduate from any college, which is remarkable considering he used five deferments to avoid serving in the military during Vietnam.
So, the charge of “elitism” is more than transparent, it’s an outright lie. Sadly, the American populace isn’t too concerned with truth; image and perception are far more important. The perception currently pulling the wool over the public’s eyes: the surge in Iraq worked.
Despite the current bombings assassinations and other acts of violence that have rocked Iraq from Basra to Baghdad.
What’s troubling about the attack of “elite” currently being hurled at Senator Obama is who it is coming from: fellow Democrats, in particular those supporting Senator Hillary Clinton and Clinton herself. C’mon, we’re Democrats, we can do better than that! Clinton has employed Karl Rove tactics in her campaign and at the very least those actions have been embarrassing. More pointedly, they have turned off many Democratic voters who remember with bitterness in their hearts the swiftboats, and from the Lee Atwater era, Willie Horton.
Was Obama’s remarks elitist? That’s debatable, but they were the most honest words spoken by any candidate in this campaign season. People in the middle and lower middle class are bitter, and like true hide-their-heads-in-the-sand Americans, they deny it. But we can see it in the letters to the editors, read it on blogs, hear it in conversations — especially when it’s about Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan getting in trouble: make them pay a heavier price!; see it in the lack of attendance at the voting booth. And always, nearly always, the fault can be laid at: A) Those who don’t believe in God the same way we do, B) all those who want to take our guns away, and C) the most popular villains at this time, immigrants.
The embittered Americans use religion especially to denounce those they feel are the reason for all our current problems and the savvy politicians tap into that xenophobia and discontent and exploit it for votes.
The truth is; the jobs have been gone for 25 years or more and have not been replaced, unless you consider working at Wal-Mart for maybe 10 dollars an hour an adequate substitute for jobs that once paid twice that wage. The bitterness lingers, maybe not heavily, but just under the skin and when a blowhard like Limbaugh makes a case, perforated as it is, that involves one of these scapegoats, the people who listen to him tend to agree, ‘cause it sounds like it makes sense, doesn’t it?
In essence, Hillary Clinton, by calling Barack Obama “elitist,” is pandering to the Rush Limbaugh crowd. And it will backfire with Democratic voters.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Is anyone else watching Pope Benedict’s Mass from Yankee Stadium? Religion is the root of all evil but it sure pretties up real good! At least this religion does. I was a good Cat’lick growing up and surprisingly, I can chant along with the Mass easily enough. Religion is ruining America and this broadcast hastens that destruction. But, like millions of other Americans, I gotta watch it.Author Richard Dawkins has written another book, called The God Delusion. It will be on my reading list soon. Dawkins was on Real Time With Bill Maher the other night and made an interesting observation: most people claim to believe in “God” because they’ve been brought up to believe that and there is the perception, in this country, that if you don’t believe in “God” then there is something “wrong” with you. Maybe everyone who claims it, but doesn’t actually believe it, ought to read his book. Amen Richard Dawkins!
And welcome to America Pope Ben!
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