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Demagoguery, that's how!
So what’s hard to believe about ‘intelligent’ people saying dumb things? They’ve gotten away with it the whole campaign. A superficial and vain media enables it. The media has focused unquestioningly on what candidates say about each other rather than what they say on the issues, even covering political ads as major story lines, whether they ...
Posted to War Stories by Squeek on September 4, 2008
Candidate Overload
By the time te media finished it's own 'vetting of Obama' puttng every false accusation and legitimate issues out front ready for dissection. After covering the endess Clinton/Obama primary match with play-by-play excitement. With Bill ''Achilles'' Clinton's every word covered as a delphic omen on party unity, perhaps the media has worn out the ...
Posted to Press Box by Squeek on September 3, 2008
Republican Melt Down: Deja vu, 2004.
Some are calling McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin a ‘Hail Mary’ pass by a desperate campaign. Actually, it’s déjà vu. In 2004, the Illinois Republican Party, faced with a scandals-driven drop-out rate among candidaes on the Republican side and an increasingly popular Barack Obama on the Democratic, pursued its own version of the ‘Hail Mary” by ...
Posted to Readme by Squeek on August 31, 2008