I’ve just been wading through some of the incredible torrent of posts about the recent Iowa caucus (just along the little corridor on the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogtopia (y!sctw!), and I must say thanks to you all for keeping me so infotainally occupied of late.
It seems to me that there’s some points that haven’t really been focused on enough:
- all of the inter-party sniping that goes on does nothing to help, and a lot to hinder, the party as a whole;
- that is the meat and drink of the supposedly liberal media, who are now in early feeding frenzy mode;
- eventually, hopefully, if a Democratic* candidate becomes president, most (if not all) of those running for president will be included in some measure or form in the next administration. Maybe you should all focus on the ineptitude, divisiveness, and elitist Republican’t candidates, and tie them to the Anchor In Chief this season, and look towards working together to bring this country back from the brink of oblivion once one of you get the nomination. A nice helping of media scorn and/or pointing out the media’s obvious biases wouldn’t hurt, either**.
- the Iowa caucus results seem to indicate that any of the big three can take any of the Republicant’s in the general election. And that turnout will be higher than usual. Which could turn this November into a completely different ballgame – or more of the same old same old. I’m personally hoping that america will be able to show the world that it is a participatory democracy once more, and that turnout in November 2008 will top 70%. But I’ve always been a dreamer…
And so once more we go into the fray, ladies and germs. Hang on – it’s going to be a wild ride in ought eight.
* – by the way, has anyone else noticed that suddenly increasing numbers of the MSM have remembered how to use Democrat and Democratic properly and appropriately again?
** – like, for example, publicly banning Faux Snooze and Oh!Really? from Democratic press fluffers until they learn some manners…
Editors’ Note: this entry has been cross-posted at the Funny Farm]
I’d like to see you democratic’s come up with come concrete ideas, such as the FairTax to pull this country away from the brink rather than just hot attack air.
How about some substance, Tom?
Comment by grimgold — January 8, 2008 @ 11:37 am
I’d like to see you democratic’s come up with come concrete ideas, such as the FairTax to pull this country away from the brink rather than just hot attack air.
How about some substance, Tom?
I’d like to see you repulbican’ts come up with something other than Hillary’s cleavage or the Obama mulsim smears, to pull this country away from the brink rather than just hot attack air.
But the republican’ts have nothing but slime and distort in their playbook, and the conservative media does whatever their republican’t master tell them to do.
You’re looking for substance? You mean like the comprehensive policy papers that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards (as well as the rest of the Democratic candidates) have put out for public consumption? I’m sorry if in depth policy positions about taxes, health care, tax reform, civil rights, the economy, energy, and the environment (just to list a sampling of the various detailed things I read at their web sites) that don’t quite agree with what you think they should be saying are not quite good enough for you.
Or would you rather focus on Hillary’s cleavage (as opposed to Jeri Thompson’s), Edwards haircuts (as opposed to Romney’s that are just as expensive), and Obama’s supposed religious beliefs (as opposed to Mike Huckabee’s)?
The Fair Tax is a contradiction in terms. Only a Putsch fellating fat cat republican’t would want something like that to be national policy.
Smarter brain dead ditto monkeys, please…
Comment by Tom — January 9, 2008 @ 6:02 pm