Some of you may remember my failed attempts at promoting the ideas of NEWSTRIKE!!! and MEDIASTRIKE!!!
I am rapidly approaching another windmill with my trusty lance.
BLOGSTRIKE!!!
Read on for more if you so desire.
So Booman wrote one of his many, many pro-Obama/anti-Hillary posts yesterday about how approvingly he sees Barack Obama’s photo-op attempt to at least not lose mercilessly in PA by appearing with those two HEAVY political thinkers, Franco Harris and Jerome “The Bus” Bettis. (I don’t really know about Harris, but Bettis is not all that bright on the evidence of the few times that I have caught his act on sports shows. No matter…it’s all just showbiz anyway, right? Read on.)
Booman then posted one of Obama’s increasingly desperate attempts to assuage the fears of the vast middle-right side of the political playing field, preceded by his own statement that “This is probably good politics, too, although it kind of makes me cringe.”
The truth is that my foreign policy is actually a return to the traditional bipartisan realistic policy of George Bush’s father, of John F. Kennedy, of, in some ways, Ronald Reagan, and it is George Bush that’s been naive and it’s people like John McCain and, unfortunately, some Democrats that have facilitated him acting in these naive ways that have caused us so much damage in our reputation around the world,” he said.
I posted this comment.
Cringe on, bubba.
Your man is just Hillary Clinton in drag, and the policies of economic imperialism that have crippled (and will continue to cripple) this country are going to be on the table for the next 8 years no matter WHO wins this election.
Deal wid it.
GOD I love Democrats!!!
So…entertaining.
And CabinGirl posted an agreement of sorts.
I found it quite amusing to watch the folks at TalkLeft eviscerate Bob Casey’s support for Obama on the basis of his pro-life credentials (just one woman-hater endorsing another), and holding John Murtha up as a better endorsement for Hillary…
Of course, no mention was made of Murtha’s record on reproductive rights, or the BS we all had to live through about “Casey can win against Santorum BECAUSE he’s pro-life” back in 2005-2006. Clearly, the right doesn’t have a corner on the “WTF are you thinking?” market.
People will never cease to amaze and amuse me.
Which got me to thinking about how little time and energy I am currently putting into the whole leftiness blogosphere.
And why.
TalkLeft?
The whole leftiness blogosphere all talk, no battle.
You remember my failed attempts at promoting the ideas of NEWSTRIKE!!! and MEDIASTRIKE!!!, right CabinGirl?
I am rapidly approaching another windmill with my trusty lance.
BLOGSTRIKE!!!
The level of sheer common sense is WAY down on the leftiness blogosphere…which I suppose is only to be expected as it increasingly becomes a haven for Joe Bageant’s “soft, moody, self-absorbed American lefties” whose “empathy for mankind’s planetary misery is in short supply – more of an intellectual concept than a reality”, who “come from the 25% of Americans who get a college degree. They have no fucking idea what it is like for the other 60-70% of Americans who have to survive in our brutal corporatized state without the benefit of genuine education, insight or even honest news programming to see what is going on around them. These workers are being cultivated as a human crop by global business. A crop of toilers, consumers, and when need be, mechanized killers to be sent abroad.” (Joe Bageant Speaks Out.)
Other than that…everything’s going just swimmingly, thank y’all so much for not asking.
The Dems, with the generous help of the kneejerk Hillary bashers on the left who are actually more vicious than those on the right (“Queen of the dry fuck brigade.” “All cunt, no cattle.” You could look it up. Nice.) are now in total disarray over which of the remaining two NeoLiberalCons they will nominate to continue to guide the Good Ship Lollipop through treacherous seas populated by emerging third world countries with a grievance or two or twenty, some serious weaponry and some even MORE serious economic leverages. Both of which candidates being miles smarter and more competent at their jobs than either the outgoing Semi-President or that walking time bomb John “Boom Boom” McCain, who is the ONLY PERSON IN AMERICA besides the right wing of the PermaGov Corporation who will profit from such an empty flip flopping flap.
And still they pound away. On this blog alone (as of 3/30/08), 9 of the 14 front-paged articles are anti-Hillary Clinton screeds.
NOT pro-Obama, anti-Clinton.
There’s a difference, CabinGirl, and the difference is negativity.
Opposition driven by negative emotions smells different than issue-driven movements, and that is now the smell coming off of the whole Democratic Party.
Nice.
Good work, folks.
Voters don’t “think”…not enough of them, anyway…they sniff various political pheromones and choose the one that gets them all hot and bothered.
Or…least repelled. (If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one that’s left. Or something like that.)
As we stumble towards this summer, the only people in America who will remain really, unshakably allied with Obama will be the middle class black vote, the academically advantaged vote and perhaps the youth vote, and the only people who will stick with Hillary Clinton will be the over-40 female vote and the organized segments of the hispanic population. Plus maybe some oldline Dems like the moribund union people.
And it will get worse as November approaches, especially if the convention is:
1-A nasty-spirited squeaker…in either direction.
Or perhaps even worse:
2-A brokered one.
With subheadings:
2a-A brokered one that does not include BOTH candidates.
2b-A brokered one that installs Fat Al Gore as a so- called”
compromise” candidate. He has the reverse Midas touch among
all classes except the ones that award Nobel Prizes and such, and
should be sequestered for the duration of the convention in some
Guantanamo of the Southland along with his potential partner in
the worst nightmare of all, an Al Gore/John Edwards ticket.
You wonder why Edwards has not endorsed anyone?
Hmmmmm…..I think that he is waiting to endorse Gore in a tit-for-tat deal. They are two of a kind.
Or maybe…forlornly, I hope…waiting for Clinton or Obama to make him an offer.
At least Clinton and Obama got out there and fought their asses off. And both are…I hope./..too politically talented to make THAT mistake.
Gore on the other hand?
Who did he choose the first time?
Right.
Once burned, twice stupid in this case.
Every time I read some big-time Dem hustler talking about how confident they are that “Things will be resolved before the Convention” I get all…nervous.
It smells like a Don King promotion.
Like a classic Don King promotion.
Only in America, people!!!
Only in America.
These two valiant warriors fought to a draw in a world class exhibition of boxing skills, but they are both so injured by the fight that they cannot continue. So instead, I bring you the unacknowledged heavyweight World Champ for the year 2000…Al “I Wuz Robbed!!!” Gore.
Give him a hand, folks. Only in America does every man get his due eventually!!!
And as a special added attraction…on the very same card, the Lightweight survivor of so many, MANY wars…John Boy Edwards!!! This boy can BOX.
Look!!!
Not a scratch on him, not a hair out of place!!! Yessir, in November we are going to set Pay-Per-Vote RECORDS here in the United States.
May the best hustler win, and ON WITH THE SHOW!!!
Of course, they WILL have opponents…a down at the heels old tomato can and a lightweight opponent to be named later. But…nevermind. It’s the winners that make the fight, right!!!???
RIIIIIGHT!!!
Only in America, folks!!!
Only in America!!!
Riiiiight.
BLOGSTRIKE!!!
Bet on it.
I’m already 2/3rds there, myself.
Bet on that as well.
Later…
AG<
P.S. ***UPDATE***STOP THE PRESSES!!!
I have just been informed by ed_encho…with quite some apparent pride, it seems…that I misquoted him above. He did not write of Hillary Clinton that she is the “Queen of the dry fuck brigade.” No. Instead he called her “The Joan of Arc of the dry pussy demographic.”
My error.
SO sorry.
Way to go, ed.
Is there any wonder why I am talking about a BLOGSTRIKE!!!???
Deep.
