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If it comes down to Edwards vs Huckabee, I just might have to go riot in the streets!If Hillary and Obama go at it hard enough and Edwards plays his cards right he could slip in.
If it comes down to Edwards vs Huckabee, I just might have to go riot in the streets!If Hillary and Obama go at it hard enough and Edwards plays his cards right he could slip in.
Don't riot, vote third Party!!If it comes down to Edwards vs Huckabee, I just might have to go riot in the streets!![]()
I dunno, wil, two Nanny-Staters wrapped in the banner of class warfare would call for something more than just voting third party, imo. It would call for exposing them for what they are.Don't riot, vote third Party!!
Daily Kos: State of the NationI awoke today, and the very first thing I heard was NPR talking about how Clinton showed emotion in a coffee shop, a moment which "defined her campaign" and "changed the dynamic" and "sealed her victory" and "duct taped the leprechaun" or whatever the hell the pundits are calling it these days. Then they had a spirited argument about Obama's blackness and how very much it didn't matter but mattered anyway because... something. And they played a clip of Colin Powell, who is currently the Media Designated Black Guy for these sorts of things, and Colin Powell thinks it's very inspirational that Obama could arise from his foreign-assed, terrorist-loving roots to being something something something.
And there was record turnout in New Hampshire, but that doesn't have to do with the hotly contested races in a year of vital national issues, but was because of The Nice Weather. People in New Hampshire don't like to vote when it's too cold out -- they get sluggish, like fence lizards. That's why they all live in Florida now, and New Hampshire remains open to the public only for show.
The media is owned by far too few conglomerates. No real competition, to insure quality, {except from the internet blogosphere, who get dismissed by the media elites.} What we wound up with is McMedia, rather than the old time Mom & Pop Diners and fine dining eateries.I was thinking about the media and the press coverage of the New Hampshire primaries. It seems like the media is a lot like organized religion in that it wants to be the sole provider of the over simplified narrative. It seems that the press, in it's ginormous bloated estimation of itself, has forgotten that facts even matter. I was amazed today to see the amount of attention the media payed to, not the story, but itself. How could everyone have been wrong about Hillary? Well, everyone wasn't wrong. The media was wrong. Their simplistic little mytho-jingle narrative was wrong. So what did they do? They covered themselves, not the story. They tried to salvage their credibility and somehow spin the story of them being wrong about the story into yet another story, with another slightly differently twisted plot line of their own invention.
When we finally exterminate all the lawyers we might as well get the talking heads too. It'll be a mercy killing.
Chris
AlterNet said:Should Big Media decide for the rest of us who is -- and more importantly who is not -- a viable candidate for president? It's bad enough that thus far the reporting of this year's quadrennial presidential pursuit has been even more insubstantial than ever, focused on the horse race, the fundraising, the polls, the pundits, the haircuts and assorted other bits of silliness -- anything other than actual issues of concern to voters and importance to the world.
Now we find Big Media, (specifically its Fox/ABC News wing,) determined to narrow the field of presidential candidates before any of us, other than a handful of white people in Iowa, even get a chance to vote!
Both television networks plan to winnow out presidential candidates they deem unacceptable and prevent them from participating in important debates to be held this weekend -- just before the crucial New Hampshire primary.
The media as has been pointed out is too firmly in too few and too biased hands. It does not work along the lines of telling what will happen but of telling you what to do. There is no editorial freedom outside the narrow parameters of the strict line of propaganda. We have nothing we can trust for information untainted by an attempt to control our thoughts --> except possibly what we can find online. <-- Unbiased truth has become the rarest commodity
Tao
I think all their dirty laundry will be aired prior to the finals...I dunno, wil, two Nanny-Staters wrapped in the banner of class warfare would call for something more than just voting third party, imo. It would call for exposing them for what they are.
Oh, yeah. Problem is, you really have to dig deeply to get to the truth...I think all their dirty laundry will be aired prior to the finals...
Anyone googled- " diebold clinton obama " yet?? hehe
What is the fundamental weakness? That the method for rigging the machines was so easily detectable?Such fundamental weaknesses of design are beyond stupid.
For those of you who wonder where Obama is...there are no delegates in Michigan. They moved their primary ahead without the approval of the DNC so they got docked and have no delegates to go to the convention.The Michigan ballot offers Clinton, Kucinich, Gravel, and Dodd (already dropped out). I'm voting for Kucinich.
The Michigan ballot offers Clinton, Kucinich, Gravel, and Dodd (already dropped out). I'm voting for Kucinich.
DailyKos is urging Dems in Michigan to vote for Romney in the upcoming primary. The logic is that keeping the race for the GOP nomination wide open will keep the Republicans trashing each other with attack ads and spending tons of money. That will work to the Dems advantage in November.
Here's the link:Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Chris