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Political mutterings sure to annoy many
I feel the last seven years has brought my country to its knees in many ways--I'll spare you the details as they are too numerous to list.
One of the things that brought me to despair in 2004 was people reelecting Bush because they believed in the man mostly because he mouthed a fundy pov, nevermind how immoral he turned out to be (again, too numerous to list.)
This election, I've been good. I've been watching most of the debates (some slipped by without me hearing about them.) I feel informed.
I felt Obama and Clinton weren't too different in their goals at first. I was impressed with how thoroughly she understood complex issues and I did see him make some misjudgments due to inexperience. His flaw seems to be not wanting to compromise. Imho, I think Clinton is more up to the job.
For the details:
Here's a news flash: politics is compromise--that's what going to DC means. We need someone in there who can put their knees on the necks of the republicans and make them compromise and get this country back on track. Giving a rousing speech on cooperation will just allow them to handicap all efforts to go in a direction the Republicans REALLY don't want to go in. They have no problems ignoring people (see the last seven years for further details.)
In the last month, I've seen an increase in propaganda by the Obama camp. In that big football stadium rally that took place before the South Carolina primary, I was shocked to hear both Obama and Oprah using the same speech patterns and cadence that MLK used, thereby tapping into the good feelings people had about MLK and co opting them as their own. His campaign got a huge burst of enthusiasm at that point--I wonder why?
Now all I hear in the Obama commercials are the words change and hope. Without putting forth any messy details that individuals might disagree with, he just lets us supply what we want changed, what we hope for. This is pure emotionalism.
He's the darling of the college crowd but when I hear them talk about what he'll do, it's all vagueness and repetition of the words hope, change and character; they've bought the package and can't be bothered to check the ingredients. He is a charismatic speaker and people say this race is about character now. Well, four years ago people voted for character instead of competence and look at where that got us.
Now the democrats are making the same mistake. Vote for Obama because he's nicer than Clinton; he'll ask the Republicans to cooperate and they will because who could possibly deny such a reasonable request? He will make our dreams come true with an ethereal ease.
If you know history, you know how this turns out. Inexperience equals stalemate in DC; it's happened in the past (check out Carter's term.) My dream is that Clinton gets in there and cleans up this mess. That Obama is the VP and he spends her term(s) learning how to get things done and then HE gets to be President and is totally effective and fantastic. What I don't want to see is four years of him being outmaneuvered because he is inexperienced...[edited]
I just want people to hire the best person for the job, not anoint the second coming. People say Clinton is a bitch. We know bitch is a code word for a strong woman. The people that accuse her of being a bitch tend to believe two things: 1) what she wants to do is what they REALLY don't want to have happen and 2) women need to be nice and nurturing--they have no place in running the country.
For the record, the types of propaganda they are employing are Band wagoning, glittering generalities, intentional vagueness and transfer. I've left out all the other types that both sides employ. As for Clinton, she does a lot of spinning and some folks say she plays dirty behind the scenes. Of course, they've accused the Clintons of that for years and for years I believed it because it was common knowledge. Well, I'm tired of being manipulated. I've not actually heard what they've done so it could just be a lot of mud-slinging. And of course, I'm to the point of, if playing dirty behind the scenes gets things done, well, ain't that just too damn bad.
One of the things that brought me to despair in 2004 was people reelecting Bush because they believed in the man mostly because he mouthed a fundy pov, nevermind how immoral he turned out to be (again, too numerous to list.)
This election, I've been good. I've been watching most of the debates (some slipped by without me hearing about them.) I feel informed.
I felt Obama and Clinton weren't too different in their goals at first. I was impressed with how thoroughly she understood complex issues and I did see him make some misjudgments due to inexperience. His flaw seems to be not wanting to compromise. Imho, I think Clinton is more up to the job.
For the details:
Here's a news flash: politics is compromise--that's what going to DC means. We need someone in there who can put their knees on the necks of the republicans and make them compromise and get this country back on track. Giving a rousing speech on cooperation will just allow them to handicap all efforts to go in a direction the Republicans REALLY don't want to go in. They have no problems ignoring people (see the last seven years for further details.)
In the last month, I've seen an increase in propaganda by the Obama camp. In that big football stadium rally that took place before the South Carolina primary, I was shocked to hear both Obama and Oprah using the same speech patterns and cadence that MLK used, thereby tapping into the good feelings people had about MLK and co opting them as their own. His campaign got a huge burst of enthusiasm at that point--I wonder why?
Now all I hear in the Obama commercials are the words change and hope. Without putting forth any messy details that individuals might disagree with, he just lets us supply what we want changed, what we hope for. This is pure emotionalism.
He's the darling of the college crowd but when I hear them talk about what he'll do, it's all vagueness and repetition of the words hope, change and character; they've bought the package and can't be bothered to check the ingredients. He is a charismatic speaker and people say this race is about character now. Well, four years ago people voted for character instead of competence and look at where that got us.
Now the democrats are making the same mistake. Vote for Obama because he's nicer than Clinton; he'll ask the Republicans to cooperate and they will because who could possibly deny such a reasonable request? He will make our dreams come true with an ethereal ease.
If you know history, you know how this turns out. Inexperience equals stalemate in DC; it's happened in the past (check out Carter's term.) My dream is that Clinton gets in there and cleans up this mess. That Obama is the VP and he spends her term(s) learning how to get things done and then HE gets to be President and is totally effective and fantastic. What I don't want to see is four years of him being outmaneuvered because he is inexperienced...[edited]
I just want people to hire the best person for the job, not anoint the second coming. People say Clinton is a bitch. We know bitch is a code word for a strong woman. The people that accuse her of being a bitch tend to believe two things: 1) what she wants to do is what they REALLY don't want to have happen and 2) women need to be nice and nurturing--they have no place in running the country.
For the record, the types of propaganda they are employing are Band wagoning, glittering generalities, intentional vagueness and transfer. I've left out all the other types that both sides employ. As for Clinton, she does a lot of spinning and some folks say she plays dirty behind the scenes. Of course, they've accused the Clintons of that for years and for years I believed it because it was common knowledge. Well, I'm tired of being manipulated. I've not actually heard what they've done so it could just be a lot of mud-slinging. And of course, I'm to the point of, if playing dirty behind the scenes gets things done, well, ain't that just too damn bad.