Monday, April 14, 2008

Out of touch.

I'm really surprised that this whole "bitter" thing with Obama has actually caught some steam. All he said was that when blue collar people lose their jobs and are fucked and no one in the government - despite election year promises - does anything to help them, they stop voting economically (since it doesn't seem to make a difference) and instead turn into values voters. What is remotely controversial about that?! Does anyone even really argue that it's not true?

When it's revealed that your pastor/spiritual advisor hates the country that you want to be the president of, that is a good juicy scandal. But this one, I don't get.

I hope that there are Democrats out there reasonable enough to step up and tell Hillary Clinton to just stop talking. She's undermining a credible defense against what will now be a republican attack line. It's not going to save her candidacy, because no one can go back in time and change the numbers. So all she's doing is prolonging the inevitable and continuing to tear her own party apart.

4 comments:

smokestack said...

I think it has become her intent to destroy her party. She is already on record as saying that McCain is better fit for the presidency than obama. so it is perfectly logical from her point of view to say anything to harm obama because she would prefer he lose anyway.

but on another note, im so mind-numbingly bored with all this shit. there was a revealing glenn greenwald post the other day where he searched lexis for "obama and bowling" and got 10 times as many hits than "yoo and torture" in the week when the torture memos were released. im pretty glad that im going to be spending the summer out of touch from western media.

Indiana said...

SAME!

J.R. McConvey said...

Where are you guys going? It's pretty hard to get yourself out of the firing range of Western media.

smokestack said...

east africa - tanzania, malawi, mozambique, uganda. hopefully that will do it. i bet there will be some british newspaper floating around. but i can handle one british newspaper every couple days.