Letters to the Editor
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Obama is drawing...
Actually Hillary & Obama combined are receiving a much greater margin of votes than McCain/Republicans in these primaries.
In most states it has been 2-1 Democrats.
That means the wingnut slime machine will have to blast Obama so bad, they will have to convince roughly 50% of Obama's voting block (a voting block that is growing BTW) to stay home on Election Day. And even that will merely put McCain in range of a tie.
If the wingnut slime machine can destroy near 50% of Obama's voting block over the course of 8 months, then they are, simply put, magnificent. And should be commended for their Democracy-destroying evil.
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Best in a while Glenn
What our political establishment relies on more than anything else is keeping Americans distracted away from what they are really doing and focused instead on how Mike Dukakis looks in a helmet and whether he'd want to murder his wife's rapist; on blue dresses and penile spots; on the inspiration for Love Story and who invented the Internet; on how John Kerry looks in windsurfing tights, on how manly George Bush's brush-clearing is, and whether Nancy Pelosi's scarf-wearing means she loves the Terrorists. That's how our Beltway culture remains indescribably broken and corrupt without much protest or backlash.
Absolutely brilliant.
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That meanie Obama
On the campaign trail he was seen spitting scroll juice out the bus window?
The goo stuck on the MSM's tag-behind TV antenna's caravan of warmongers.
-- GoodCelery!
Rumor has it that the 12 year old Obama used to like to give his class mates 'flat tires'. In case you don't know, that means stepping on the heel of the kid's shoe who is walking in front of you. The kid's shoe comes off at the heal and he or she ends up walking on it like a flat tire.
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an obvious point
I haven't had time to read through all the comments. I only have time to dish and dash. So I hope I'm not making you re-read a point someone has already made.
Many people on the right have said/sworn/promised that they wouldn't vote for McSame. So it would seem to me that the RightWingSlimeMachine will need to make sure they present their voters with something/one they can vote AGAINST. And thus we will get Glenn's non-stop, wall-to-wall demonization of BO.
I predict it will start small and soft, all very PC and gentle. But as McHero's poll numbers continue to tank, it will turn into shrieking and hysteria and calls for deprogramming the Obama faithful.
In the last month of the campaign, however, I predict that much of the RightWingSlimeMachine will suddenly back off and attempt to take the high road so they don't look like total, classless dicks after McCan't is soundly trounced in the national election.
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LibTex
Do I need to mention that a big part of the Right Wing MO is to set themselves up as victims? Any thing that point in the direction of LESS Free Speech is certain to backfire.
We can pretend that it would be nice to silence certain particularly obnoxious voices, but the sad fact is that your idea of offensive and mine might be 180 degress apart from each other and there's not a single person on the planet I would trust to try to split the difference.
The "marketplace" metaphor might not be popular among liberals, but the best way to arrive at truth is to let the maximum number of people available work on the problem.
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Never ever give up
I still support Hillary, and I hope she keeps up the fight- but unlike many Obama supporters, I will indeed support Obama if he wins. With that said, how is he going to hold up against the right wing attack dogs? Obama's supporters, many of them too young to recall recent history from thier very own recollection, have relied heavily on the right wing Hillary hatred to win votes. Hell, she is even being blamed for NAFTA when she wasn't a Senator!!! I truly hope that Barack's supporters are ready for the REAL fight, which will be very petty, very unfair and very undignified, as usual.
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petty though typical attacks? producing nothing?...expect more of the same...
In view of the current occupant at 1600 PA.Ave. and his long and often absurdly overlooked gaffes,untruths and outright lies record it was fully underwhelming to see Barack Obama taken to the mat over plagarism. Really!?
G.W."Heh-Heh-Heh" Bush and Dick the Dark Scold Cheney have been given many more times large and very general passes for a range of offenses much greater in scale regarding where ideas came from,secrecy and lack of reveal and general scorn for/of being responsible for the truth and fact indexes(lack of?) they orbit around.
So...nail Barack Obama on a hollow,trumped up "plagarism" charge but ingnore the last 7+ years of Bushisms,Cheneyisms and this Bush WH regimes sorry parade of policy flaks and WH press handlers.
Meanwhile American Militarism,Obscene Capitalism and just how harsh is life for the bottom one third of Americans get little or no play on the national stage.
It would be surely very refreshing to see American Militarism and the Pentagon Party/Lobby taken on for a change.
Would be but highly unlikely.
John McCain is the new front-man for more and greater American Militarism and bigger Pentagon global reach and death-dealing.
He likely will not be taken to task about it either.
Obama on the other hand will get the full "are you a defense weakling/pansy?" treatment repeatedly.
What has happened or continues to happen in Iraq or looms on the horizon if John McCain is the next American President should be front and center between now and next November. I hope Obama will rise to the task. The American political media very likely will not with exception of some in the ranks represented by the likes of Glenn Greenwald or Bill Moyers and the calibre of observations made and questions asked by them.
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On point, but others......
As usual, Glenn's post attacks the heart of the broken political system. I think many of the posters here have missed part of his point. It's the system that is broken, and while the right-wing uses this system better than the left, the "liberal media" is completely enabling to the practice.
The beltway culture is corrupt and money driven on both sides of the asile. I would think that Glenn's earlier series on the telcom wiretapping bill would have illustrated this perfectly. Greed isn't limited to a political party.
As for Obama, I'd really like to believe that the system can change. It is fundamentally broken, but he is very short on any sort of specifics. He's up against more than just the republicans. The beltway is corrupt down to its lowest levels. Most of the government doesn't change with an election and quite often it's these people who are driving policy. (Prime evidence is the neo-cons who were sowing their seeds of destruction long before the 2000 election.)
I would very much like to see an honest and frank discussion of the issues by the canidates and the media. The right wing slimes, and the left wing canidate of choice offers a solution of magic pixie dust in the name of change. I honestly don't find either option very comforting.