Here it is.
Not much more need be said about Obama’s bad intentions regarding Romney on Tuesday night, and Romney’s fear is palpable. Obama is leaning into him…stepping to him, in street language…head and jaw thrust forward, ready to bite Romney’s head off. Romney is already backing away, holding Obama’s arm in self-defense while Obama’s left hand (his dominant hand) is poised to attack whatever part of Romney presents itself as a useful target. Obama has a fighter’s haircut; Romney’s looks like it would get messed up by a missed punch. Obama is lean and mean-looking while Romney looks soft around the neck and middle. Obama’s chest protrudes; Romney’s looks concave. Romney’s ass looks like it’s looking for a way to leave the building; Obama’s is tucked and ready for battle.
The tomato can and the champ.
And that is without a doubt the way the debate went as well. Obama’s horses, bayonets and submarines line was absolutely devastating. In a real debate setting…a fair setting, where the judges are scoring on points instead of political desires…Romney would have lost so badly that he would be kicked off of whatever debate team he represented. But here? In media-controlled PermaGov America? The “judges” are almost all bought off by one aspiring fixmaster or another. And the right-wing fixers have pretty much gotten their wish. It’s now a “close race.” Shoulda been a blowout. If I was Obama I would have taken a serious blood test minutes after the first debate to see if someone had slipped me a mickey.
For real.
Read on.
Here’s all I have to say about this thing.
If Obama loses I want the entire Dem establishment…Obama first, while he is still in office…to call for inquiries into every unexpected vote tally in the country. I don’t care how impolitic or how “dangerous to the security of the country and economy” such an uproar would prove to be. The Rats won in 2000 and 2004 due to vote fraud and a fixed Supreme Court, and if it happens again I want to see the Arab Spring erupt in every Tahrir Square in the United States. Otherwise it’s back to the disastrous Bush II years and beyond…way back into Reagan territory. Nixon territory, even.
If that result happens…Romney by a squeaker…and the country folds like a wet rag the way it did in 2000, I’m outta here. My people have been on this continent since the 1600s on my father’s side of the family and my mother’s family came here after their father was shot and killed off of a provisioner’s wagon in the 1850s by the Brits during the Irish troubles. I’ve been loath to give up despite the shameful history of the U.S. in the post-WW II years, but this is looking like the end of the dream to me. I’m not exactly an Obama fan, but at least he appears to be a human being. Romney? Not. Human beings have unexpected depths and capabilities for change, but Rombots just clomp, clomp, clomp along, chewing up the scenery as they go.
I refuse to remain part of that scenery. Been chewed on just about enough since the JFK coup. Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes? Just about enough.
And there it is.
Does the country have enough spirit left after the last 50 years of media-induced stupor to stand up and say “No!!!”?
I dunno.
We shall see soon enough.
Let us pray.
AG
Sure.
Here y’are.
A few more pichas fer ya.
The (internet) people have spoken. Les than 24 hours after the debate.
And a last pictorial summation of the true result of this debate no matter how spun the media results may be.
Like dat.
The Human and the SalesHuman.
Bet on it.
AG
I agree with you 100%.
Don’t know if that gives you pause for reexamination!
Reexamination of what?
We need some re-ex-animation!!!
Enough of these cartoon cutouts!!!
Ross Perot said it all, way back in 1992. The first Ron Paul.
A transcript of what he said is in order for those of you who are too lazy, too depressed, too media-winded or simply too technologically dense to take care of the basic business of finding out what is really going on here.
Look where it got him.
Nowhere.
Look where what he describes has gotten us.
Fucked.
Hmmmm….”12 to 15 years” from 1992. Why…that’s 2007!!!
Hmmm….when did the bottom really fall out here?
Oh.
Bear Stearns toppled in 2007. The hedge fund bubble burst and we have been leaking jobs and money ever since.
Nevermind.
“Reexamine” my refusal to vote for the kinder, gentler Obamabot rather than see the Rombot in office? I’m hip to both of them.
America, however?
Too dumb to be trusted to choose.
Hell…maybe a quick collapse might be better than a gentle slide down into third-world conditions.
Whatever. The people will speak, as always.
Only now…they’re ventriloquist’s dummies.
So it goes.
And I’m not.
So that goes as well.
Later…
AG
Re-examine because we agree and you may be uncomfortable with that. “Voice agrees with me? Maybe my thinking is wrong.”
More of a joke than serious.
Naaaahhhh…I don’t think that way, VITW. I really don’t. Not about you and not about most other people, either. Being a jazz musician brings one into intimate artistic contact with an amazing range of beliefs, upbringings and opinions. Were I to reject every great player that I have ever played with on the basis of their “beliefs” …political beliefs, cultural beliefs, religions beliefs (or lack thereof), personal choices of all varieties…there’d be almost no one with whom I could play. For a number of years I was in a band that had a a Scientologist as its leader…a truly legendary jazz musician…plus someone who had “chosen” to be prey to Big Pharma for his personal mental and emotional problems all of his life, a nasty spirited ex-junkie who appeared to hate everyone on the planet, a coke-addled studio musician, another ex-junkie who had basically given up on the human race in a very passive manner and a few people who were very much like me. It was the greatest band I ever played in. They all had one thing in common. When the music started they played like angels.
So I “agree” with you about one thing and not about some other things.
So what?
When you’re right, you’re right.
Dassit.
Seeing things in that way is what enabled me to support Ron Paul. Many people sniped at him about his supposed racism, about his economic beliefs, etc. OK. Maybe he had been a racist at one time (although I really doubt that, myself), and maybe his economics are totally off-base. (No more off-base than all the economists who are presently in power, on the plentiful evidence of the still seriously collapsing U.S. economy.) But he was right about so much!!!
When you’re right, you’re right.
Later…
S.
I agree that past history suggests that if the polls are within 1 or 2 points, the Republican machinery in a state like Colorado or Ohio is perfectly willing to manipulate vote counts to deliver an electoral college victory to Romney. Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 were never properly reported, investigated, or addressed by new rules and safeguards. Shame on the Democratic Party for not fighting on this since 2000. It’s their own electoral survival at stake, but hey, they don’t want to sound like “sore losers.” Meanwhile, we are this close to having the electorate reward the Republicans for four years of pure “sore loser” obstructionism. If we wake up to another questionable Republican victory next Wednesday, I agree that public demonstrations and a Justice Department Investigation start immediately. Sure, the media and Republicans will act with flabbergasted false outrage, but the Democrats have enough things going for them to survive the recriminations. The issues are on our side, and the will of the people, if ever allowed to be expressed, is on our side. And of course, demographics. So let’s have this fight now (if the worst case happens and it becomes necessary) and not stop until we have fair, secure elections that use paper ballots openly counted. In fact, even if Obama pulls it out, we better use any leverage we get to address this issue. If elections are clean, Democrats win. Period.
Did I say next Wednesday? I meant the Wednesday after next. Yeah, that Wednesday.