If all we accomplish this election is the Democrats getting the blame for the coming pain stemming from massive Republican evils and errors, which then puts Republicans back in charge for another several terms after a single Obama term, the USA is pretty much toast. And that seems to be what Obama's aiming for, as he's said he has no intentions of bringing back the fairness doctrine for media-- and so will continue to allow insane moguls like Murdoch to murder rational thought and discussion in America, even if it ever comes into his power (Obama's) to rectify that.
Helen and Harry, I know you think Obama knows what he's doing. But I disagree. He seems awfully naive about some very important issues, as well as over-confident to the point of arrogance. Both usually signs of an immature and/or inexperienced person. Yeah, that's better than a truly demented and perhaps evil man like McCain.
But the true election's not going to be Obama versus McCain: it's going to be the Democratic machine versus the Republican machine. And the Republican machine includes almost every major media outlet in the country. That makes it a very unlevel playing field-- a circumstance Obama himself doesn't seem to comprehend.
As you and I well know, using the internet as your main promotional platform comes nowhere
Excerpt: If the direr warnings about the US economy and the general state of the world are correct, maybe we should be glad that Obama's presidential campaign is in failure mode (see Loserville).
Two terms of the Bush/Cheney administration have pretty much destroyed the dollar, wrecked the US industrial base, emasculated the US military, undermined public faith in the legal system, wrecked the educational system, bankrupted working people, fired up many labor unions, bankrupted the government and threatened the retirement and Medicare systems.
Do we really want to now hand this mess over to a Democratic administration and a Democratic Congress?
All that will do is ensure that Democrats will end up having to confront, and in the end get the blame for the whole looming catastrophe, allowing the otherwise thoroughly discredited Republicans and neocons who created this disaster to come back claiming it was the fault of the liberals and their pinko friends.
A better idea might be to let the Republicans win it, and then have to deal with it and take the consequences.
near to matching the power of mainstream print, TV, and radio. So Obama could produce a billion clever web sites, and still easily lose the media war.
I'm not even sure if he understands the extent of racial bias alone he faces-- despite him being black. This would of course be understandable if he's (up to this point) led an extraordinarily lucky and somewhat protected life, compared to most of his fellow black men. And with each passing day, my suspicions that that is indeed the case, just grow stronger.
I worry that maybe we'd have been better off with Clinton as the nominee.
I'm not certain that Obama knows what he's doing, so much as I'm certain that McCain is a doddering old fool who never had much sense even before he became senile. I'm not sure Obama realizes the evil he's facing, but he seems to be handling his share of sh*t better than any Democratic Presidential candidate I can remember. I'll just say, my fingers are crossed as I type this.
I can see the intellectual argument of letting the Republicans win. Certainly the Republicans are most responsible for the coming catastrophe, and they should be forced to face the consequences. But to me it's not an intellectual question, it's perhaps literally a matter of life and death.
I sincerely feel that the nation is in grave peril, and that my own freedom, health, and survival are at risk. If McCain is installed in the White House, he will almost certainly turn our present pending disaster into utter catastrophe. I don't think Obama can stave off disaster, but I do think he's sharp and sane enough to hold the country together while some patches are applied, so that something resembling the United States of America might persevere for long enough to allow me and my husband to die of old age outside of a prison cell.
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