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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009
Great piece, Andrew. I watched Fox News last night too, and you made me laugh out loud this morning at the memory. You did Fox justice, which is better than they deserve.
I could only watch 30 seconds. That is all my stomache will allow. Will they ever change? Is this really how they feel in private? I cannot see past their hypocracy. It is just too large. And their acting has not improved. I just cant believe they practice what they preach except for Barnes. He has got to be the biggest joke in American journalism. Do they know the intellect of the people that watch them? I have to remember that they are getting paid for trying to convince their audiance that they are right when the only people that watch them would agree with them if they claimed the Earth was flat. This is 2008. Their tactics may have worked in 2004 but now is the time for truth. But will anyone tell them what truth really is?
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Ft. Greene [which] was insane last night--hollers of joy in the street till the early mornings. Someone joked to me that she was ready to get her rioting on, while I pulled out my lighter and said "How hard is it to overturn a car? That Mini over there can't be too heavy." But besides bad humor, there was no crazy behavior--just a lot of happy, happy people. So many hugs with strangers, toasts in the streets, and high fives from people sailing by in honking cars.
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At about 11:30PM, I left my friend's Obama Victory party in Upper East Tennessee. The party was a hoot, but the world outside was quiet. Dead-scary quiet. As I drove home down a desolate 18 mile stretch of I-26, in my little Toyota adorned with a MoveOn Obama sticker, I was on high mental alert, concious of the possibility that some enraged redneck could run me off the road, or worse. I was never so glad to pull into my driveway!
I voted McCain and lost. You won, congratulations. The US (and world) economies had to collapse for him to win, but he did. I promised last year that I would come here the day after the election and so I have. This is my last post, and it will be my last visit to Salon after over 10 years of reading it (and subscribing at one point).
I do not consider Obama my president and I never will. I consider him a political opportunist whose only skill is a great ability to mesmerize people with speech. I have always been wary of such people and the public reaction to this man scares me. I have watched videos of great psychological manipulators such as Hitler and I am struck by the similarities. I will not support him or his policies.
For those who did not vote Obama, you may be receiving a newsletter via email in the future entitled "Guerilla living under Obama Nation". It will touch on topics that will be of interest to us under this new regime: civil disobedience, tax evasion, forming interlinked support groups, message encryption using PGP, etc. For obvious (personal security)reasons this cannot be distributed via blogging.
So, Nobama people, take heart! A grain of sand in the cogs of this regime will get crushed, but a million grains will bring the machine to a halt. Join the insurgency! The time for action is coming! Do your share to ensure he only gets four short years :-)
I really enjoyed reading this piece, and especially seeing the Juan Williams video.
The most stunning statement Williams made was in the very last 10 seconds, when he said, "this is not just making it into the history textbooks, this may be on the cover of the history book."
Unbelievable.
I was doing a hundred other things as the election results came but had the TV on. After the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert show I switch to a generic network station. Every time I checked in, it seemed Katie was getting more and more depressed as the election results started favoring Obama. I thought this was such an exciting election but could not find that reflected in the newscasts. Were they all trying to be "objective" or are they all republicans? I thought after the Palin interview Katie would be pro Obama/Biden. So much for liberal media. Anyway... Its a brand new world!
You know... like if someone makes you angry, you can just "Wish them into the Corn."
Barnes, or any other Fox News commentator, has any clue how hard it is to join a union in this country, even if every single person in a workplace votes yes. The current so-called "secret ballot election" system is a complete sham and so far removed from an actual free election that it is an insult to the word election to even call it that. No other network or Democratic strategist spoke a peep about the Employee Free Choice Act last night.
Fox and it's corporate backers can't accept the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans want to change the balance of power in our society and are tired of getting kicked around and left behind. Let workers decide for themselves if a union is going to help them make their life better. We've got to stand up to this b.s. socialist name-calling by the right and say enough is enough. You had your day and you destroyed our country. Let's get to work to fix it for everyone.
I'm a union member and proud of it.
November 5, 2008
Why A McCain/Palin presidency did not happen on November 4th 2008
By Robert Singer
A McCain/Palin presidency did not happen on November 4th. Not because it violated the law of presidential politics, but because it violated the law of vice presidential politics. You can have a vice president more powerful than the president but not more popular. Nixon, Bush, Cheney – powerful, yes, but about as popular as Ohio's electronic voting machines. McCain and Palin were on the same bridge to nowhere in the 2008 election.
Sara Palin has been compared to Dan Quayle in that both were selected to give the illusion that the public voted for the candidate the puppet masters had decided beforehand would be President.
Dan Quayle, whose Christianity involved questioning the family values of a mythical television character, would allow the pundits to speculate it was the Evangelical's that voted for the unpopular H.W. George Bush. No one expected Evangelicals to actually vote for Bush/Quayle; that was a bonus and made fixing the election easier.
Sara Palin will allow the pundits and John McCain to blame his loss on his advisers who forced him to accept Sara Palin over his friend Joe Lieberman. After all, the public would not be expected to vote for McCain with a Hockey Mom one 72-year-old's heartbeat away from the presidency. The puppet masters had it easy in 1988 when the gullible Evangelicals voted for Bush. Palin's performance in the vice presidential debates was remarkable and if her Joe Six-Pack popularity continued, it would have made fixing the election harder.
Barack Obama, an unknown senator four years ago, travels in the same circles as other members of the super-secret Skull & Bones society of Yale University--George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and even John Kerry. John Kerry pretended to be running for president in 2004. The puppet masters did their best to "swift boat" Kerry, but it wasn't enough. Americans didn't want another four years of Dubya. Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again, said Kerry conceded because his campaign advisers pressured him to do so, even though his vice presidential running mate, John Edwards, preferred to wait until they had more information. "Kerry's caving in like that gave an enormous gift to the right wing," Miller said. "They (the conservatives) could now claim, 'well, even their (the Democrats') candidate doesn't think it was stolen. And they (Kerry and his advisers) left ... the American people hanging out to dry there."
Kerry's decision not to fight left millions of Americans wondering if democracy had been stolen – along with the last two presidential elections.
The Candidate for Change, Barack Obama, might just be the most remarkable man the world has ever seen--intellectual, oratorical, governmental and a genius. He rose from obscurity to power with his top economics adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. And if you need more proof, his beautiful wife, Michelle, is reputed to be closely linked to the Council on Foreign Relations.
It did not matter who you voted for on November 4th. Senator Barack Obama from the state of Illinois was going to be the next president of the United States; Governor Palin aka Hockey Mom was the Obama insurance policy.
An Israeli columnist issues a scathing indictment of Israel and calls on the U.S. to apply pressure.
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
Hey, guys: Are adult films making you bad at sex?
What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret.
The loony wing of the Republican Party prepares for a big day in Tuesday's elections
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