Before this disappears down America’s short term memory hole, let’s have a look at something most of us didn’t notice last Tuesday. As we were settling back into our ordinary routine, fresh from the Labor Day weekend, Rick Davis, John McCain’s campaign manager, revealed a little secret.
"This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."
We can be certain their idea of a “composite view” will not be grounded in reality.
Yes, the public will be shown meticulously staged images of McCain and Palin. The media will be saturated with the commercially sculpted illusions of the Republicans’ competence, history, and above all, character. American voters will be lured into selecting their future leadership from their caricature more than from their character.
Meanwhile:
The war in Iraq is an issue.
The looting of our treasury is an issue.
The destruction of the Constitution and rule of law is an issue.
Energy independence is an issue.
Our jobs and healthcare are issues.
And the Republican's message is WHAT?
This election is NOT about issues?
Only in Amerika.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Post Convention Notes
So McCain said “I liked to bend a few rules
and pick a few fights FOR THE FUN OF IT”!!!!
If this election is about character, my friends,
then we see Johnny McMaverick was a bully.
This bully likes to talk tough.
This bully wants to command his own army
and he wants to rule a militarized empire.
He wants to fulfill his ambition.
This bully is known for outbursts of temper.
This authoritarian bully has picked a successor.
She thinks our wars are God’s Task.
She would be putty in the Neocon’s hands.
And they are all waiting for their next chance.
But don’t be worried, my friends.
Johnny will be fine.
For a while.
But for now…
He’s ready to get America going.
And what does he repeatedly call on us to do?
In addition to fight, that is.
He wants us to serve.
Serve something that is greater than ourselves.
We can trust Johnny can come up with
somewhere or another for us to serve.
Even if he has to DRAFT a whole new jobs program.
So get in line and stand up straight.
Sound off, you maggots!
(If you put these lines to a military drill cadence,
you’ll get more of the feeling.)
John McCain has news for you.
He’ll tell you just what to do
Fight and Fight and Fight and Fight.
All day long and through the night.
I don’t know but I been told
John McCain is getting old.
What if Johnny’s heart is failin?
Then we got Church Lady Palin
and pick a few fights FOR THE FUN OF IT”!!!!
If this election is about character, my friends,
then we see Johnny McMaverick was a bully.
This bully likes to talk tough.
This bully wants to command his own army
and he wants to rule a militarized empire.
He wants to fulfill his ambition.
This bully is known for outbursts of temper.
This authoritarian bully has picked a successor.
She thinks our wars are God’s Task.
She would be putty in the Neocon’s hands.
And they are all waiting for their next chance.
But don’t be worried, my friends.
Johnny will be fine.
For a while.
But for now…
He’s ready to get America going.
And what does he repeatedly call on us to do?
In addition to fight, that is.
He wants us to serve.
Serve something that is greater than ourselves.
We can trust Johnny can come up with
somewhere or another for us to serve.
Even if he has to DRAFT a whole new jobs program.
So get in line and stand up straight.
Sound off, you maggots!
(If you put these lines to a military drill cadence,
you’ll get more of the feeling.)
John McCain has news for you.
He’ll tell you just what to do
Fight and Fight and Fight and Fight.
All day long and through the night.
I don’t know but I been told
John McCain is getting old.
What if Johnny’s heart is failin?
Then we got Church Lady Palin
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Gott Mit Uns!
Soon this Republican convention will be over. Was it just me, or did anyone else notice? Didn’t this look like the whitest crowd we’ve seen this side of the “Triumph of the Will” Nuremburg rally?
Soon Mordor in Minnesota will have finished its evil rites and its legions of authoritarians will march into the countryside to spread their message of fear and hatred.
Their convention ends, but not before leaving us with a shocking vision of their idea of law and order.
Local police and sheriffs, working with the FBI, (So you know this was instigated by Republicans in Washington DC) conducted preemptive searches, seizures and arrests.
Glenn Greenwald described the taste of American Fascism received by those who were planning on peaceful protest.
"Teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets."
Here is what was reported by Marjorie Cohn at CounterPunch.
The raids targeted members of "Food Not Bombs," an anti-war, anti-authoritarian protest group that provides free vegetarian meals every week in hundreds of cities all over the world. They served meals to rescue workers at the World Trade Center after 9/11 and to nearly 20 communities in the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina.
Also targeted were members of I-Witness Video, a media watchdog group that monitors the police to protect civil liberties. The group worked with the National Lawyers Guild to gain the dismissal of charges or acquittals of about 400 of the 1,800 who were arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Preemptive policing was used at that time as well. Police infiltrated protest groups in advance of the convention.
Nestor said that no violence or illegality has taken place to justify the arrests. “Seizing boxes of political literature shows the motive of these raids was political,” he said.
Anyone even THINKING of photographing the demonstrations were targeted as enemies of the fascist state. Thought Crime is no longer a dark vision of 1984. It is now a tool of Amerikan totalitarianism.
All those right wing fanatics gathered in one place seemed to have released dark and evil emanations into the atmosphere. The Thought Police flew off into a kind of pheromone induced frenzy of beatings and arrests. They passionately indulged in their love of police state brutality. The Republicans’ SS inspired uniformed thugs relished their opportunity to put the boot to the public’s throat.
They are vanguard in the streets of Johnny McTorture’s gestating New Reich Order.
What kind of monstrous despotic thinking has brought us to this horrible state?
Maybe we can find clue in what the authoritarian Right has said.
"God gave this President and this President's Party one more chance. God heard the fervent prayers of millions of values voters to keep His hand on America one more time." -- Paul Weyrich, Heritage Foundation founder and Washington Times columnist
"Thank God that George Bush is our president." -- Rudy Giuliani
"George Bush is a leader for our times. When we sing 'God Bless America,' it is a prayer, and I believe this person is part of God's answer." -- U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman
"'I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it." - George W. Bush
And this is from our new Reich Mistress Queen Sarah. “Pray for our military. Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right for this country - that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God."
As the swastika adorned belt buckles of the Wehrmacht said, “Gott mit Uns”.
Yes. God with us.
The unholy crusade of Sarah McChurchlady is now unleashed on what little remains of our freedom and democracy.
This leaves me asking this simple question.
Why does God hate America?
Soon Mordor in Minnesota will have finished its evil rites and its legions of authoritarians will march into the countryside to spread their message of fear and hatred.
Their convention ends, but not before leaving us with a shocking vision of their idea of law and order.
Local police and sheriffs, working with the FBI, (So you know this was instigated by Republicans in Washington DC) conducted preemptive searches, seizures and arrests.
Glenn Greenwald described the taste of American Fascism received by those who were planning on peaceful protest.
"Teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets."
Here is what was reported by Marjorie Cohn at CounterPunch.
The raids targeted members of "Food Not Bombs," an anti-war, anti-authoritarian protest group that provides free vegetarian meals every week in hundreds of cities all over the world. They served meals to rescue workers at the World Trade Center after 9/11 and to nearly 20 communities in the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina.
Also targeted were members of I-Witness Video, a media watchdog group that monitors the police to protect civil liberties. The group worked with the National Lawyers Guild to gain the dismissal of charges or acquittals of about 400 of the 1,800 who were arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Preemptive policing was used at that time as well. Police infiltrated protest groups in advance of the convention.
Nestor said that no violence or illegality has taken place to justify the arrests. “Seizing boxes of political literature shows the motive of these raids was political,” he said.
Anyone even THINKING of photographing the demonstrations were targeted as enemies of the fascist state. Thought Crime is no longer a dark vision of 1984. It is now a tool of Amerikan totalitarianism.
All those right wing fanatics gathered in one place seemed to have released dark and evil emanations into the atmosphere. The Thought Police flew off into a kind of pheromone induced frenzy of beatings and arrests. They passionately indulged in their love of police state brutality. The Republicans’ SS inspired uniformed thugs relished their opportunity to put the boot to the public’s throat.
They are vanguard in the streets of Johnny McTorture’s gestating New Reich Order.
What kind of monstrous despotic thinking has brought us to this horrible state?
Maybe we can find clue in what the authoritarian Right has said.
"God gave this President and this President's Party one more chance. God heard the fervent prayers of millions of values voters to keep His hand on America one more time." -- Paul Weyrich, Heritage Foundation founder and Washington Times columnist
"Thank God that George Bush is our president." -- Rudy Giuliani
"George Bush is a leader for our times. When we sing 'God Bless America,' it is a prayer, and I believe this person is part of God's answer." -- U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman
"'I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it." - George W. Bush
And this is from our new Reich Mistress Queen Sarah. “Pray for our military. Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right for this country - that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God."
As the swastika adorned belt buckles of the Wehrmacht said, “Gott mit Uns”.
Yes. God with us.
The unholy crusade of Sarah McChurchlady is now unleashed on what little remains of our freedom and democracy.
This leaves me asking this simple question.
Why does God hate America?
Monday, September 1, 2008
Happy Labor Day
At least the working class has one day out of the year for recognition. The other 364 days may as well be called "Management Days" here in Corporate America.
After years of "Compassionate Conservatism", jobs have disappeared by the millions, unions have been demolished, health care benefits have been slashed, and pensions are fast becoming relics of the past century .
American workers now have to labor extra hours for less pay to collect their severely weakened US dollar.
American voters will soon have a choice.
They can elect Obama, who has promised a tax cut for the vast majority of Americans.
Or they can vote for Johnny McGreedy, who wants to make his personal $400,000 annual tax cut permanent.
Maybe they can figure this one out for themselves.
But, wait! Look Out! What about Osama Been Forgotten?
Omigod, I Ran wants nucular energy! After their history of interfering in our affairs and attacking America, we gotta stop them!
Oh, no! Russia actually invaded a sovereign nation! NOBODY does that in the 21st Century! How COULD they? Those godless commie beasts!
Help! Help! We need a former POW and a vengeful Church Lady to save us!
No matter what it costs, please, please help us. We're frightened. We want Johnny McMorewar to do Whatever It Takes!
Thank God we have a good corporate media to tell us this aristocratic, elitist, favored son of the military industrial complex is actually a straight talking maverick war hero.
Now our decision is much easier to make this November. Yes, I'm feeling safer already.
After years of "Compassionate Conservatism", jobs have disappeared by the millions, unions have been demolished, health care benefits have been slashed, and pensions are fast becoming relics of the past century .
American workers now have to labor extra hours for less pay to collect their severely weakened US dollar.
American voters will soon have a choice.
They can elect Obama, who has promised a tax cut for the vast majority of Americans.
Or they can vote for Johnny McGreedy, who wants to make his personal $400,000 annual tax cut permanent.
Maybe they can figure this one out for themselves.
But, wait! Look Out! What about Osama Been Forgotten?
Omigod, I Ran wants nucular energy! After their history of interfering in our affairs and attacking America, we gotta stop them!
Oh, no! Russia actually invaded a sovereign nation! NOBODY does that in the 21st Century! How COULD they? Those godless commie beasts!
Help! Help! We need a former POW and a vengeful Church Lady to save us!
No matter what it costs, please, please help us. We're frightened. We want Johnny McMorewar to do Whatever It Takes!
Thank God we have a good corporate media to tell us this aristocratic, elitist, favored son of the military industrial complex is actually a straight talking maverick war hero.
Now our decision is much easier to make this November. Yes, I'm feeling safer already.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
A Sunny Day
Tonight there seems to be a divine message to those Bible thumpers at Focus on the Family.
You may have heard about the call for their flock to pray for rain on the Democrats in the stadium in Denver. It turned out to be a sunny day.
I guess God had other plans. That won't stop the Republicans, though.
It’s looking like they are going to have to steal another election.
They may have to show once again, their god doesn't approve of democracy.
Just like in 2000.
You may have heard about the call for their flock to pray for rain on the Democrats in the stadium in Denver. It turned out to be a sunny day.
I guess God had other plans. That won't stop the Republicans, though.
It’s looking like they are going to have to steal another election.
They may have to show once again, their god doesn't approve of democracy.
Just like in 2000.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
We Are All POW's Now
On last night’s talk show, Jay Leno asked John McCain jokingly, “For one million dollars, how many houses do you have?”
Johnny McRealestate replied, “Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness .I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell. I didn’t have a house. I didn’t have a kitchen table. I didn’t have a table. I didn’t have a chair. And I didn’t spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out.”
It’s gonna be a LONG two months before he steals this election!
How many more times will Johnny McP.O.W. play this card? Since Americans are eating this crap up by the buckets, I predict at least another couple dozen times.
I hate to tell you folks this, but America has been held POW for eight years now.
And we are all in for serving at least four more years as Prisoners Of WARMONGERS!
Johnny McRealestate replied, “Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness .I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell. I didn’t have a house. I didn’t have a kitchen table. I didn’t have a table. I didn’t have a chair. And I didn’t spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out.”
It’s gonna be a LONG two months before he steals this election!
How many more times will Johnny McP.O.W. play this card? Since Americans are eating this crap up by the buckets, I predict at least another couple dozen times.
I hate to tell you folks this, but America has been held POW for eight years now.
And we are all in for serving at least four more years as Prisoners Of WARMONGERS!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
What A Disgrace!
My in box was blessed yet again with another forwarded right wing outrage. This time it could very well be the defining issue of the election, perhaps even for the future of humanity!
At the very least it was an idiot’s guide to voting.
I’m particularly filled with pride by having the good fortune of seeing Ted Nugent was a previous recipient of this crucial message. Don’t you love it when your email address gets mindlessly forwarded along with the propaganda out to the seething masses?
The spam was kindly sent out by a “Good Republikaner” who took on the mission to alert Americans to the dastardly deed of one “despicable” Barack Obama.
What offending horror could Obama have committed this time?
Here’s what I learned. The wording is left as it was received.
“WHAT A DISGRACE!!! AND HE IS ALL AMERICAN????
Obama The Patriot - Removes American Flag From His PlaneBarack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail...
What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with a symbol of himself... Obama is such a despicable human being.
Please forward this if you're not ashamed of our country and our flag & if think this is a disgrace.”
Not wanting to be ashamed of our country, I did the patriotic thing. I replied to my fellow Americans with whom I was privileged to share this news.
*****
Thank you for bringing this urgent and compelling matter to my attention. I was wondering who I should vote for.
This really makes me think hard... And it is clearly the biggest REAL ISSUE that finally made up my mind. It sure does make me mad!
Why does Obama HATE AMERICA??
The MONSTER! He had his plane repainted! Every other presidential candidate does this for the last part of the campaign, but Obama did it wrong.
Why would anyone even think about voting for Obama?
That would be disgraceful and un-American. Just like removing the stylized flag image of the North American Airlines corporate logo on a plane. It was not a REAL flag, of course, or even a “symbol of his country”. It was a CORPORATE LOGO. Why, come to think of it, desecrating a corporate logo should be a crime in itself! Never mind there’s still an accurate flag depiction next to the exterior registration numbers on the plane. Just like on McCain’s plane.
It would just be stupid to elect Obama. Especially if you think about the outstanding public service we’ve seen from Bush and McCain.
Republican leadership sure has done a “heck of a job” with our employment opportunities, our economy, and international respect. And for our own good, I’m sure; they devalued our dollar to an unbelievable low. The Canadian dollar is leaving ours in the dust. If you have to ask what the dollar value of the Euro is now, you can’t afford it.
CEO pay has gone up even faster than OUR purchasing power has declined. And who can’t love the sweetheart tax breaks and legislation for the pharmaceutical industry and Big Oil? Corporate lobbyists and big business SHOULD be allowed to continue writing our laws to maximize their profit. That’s what good government is for, right? The more we transfer our tax dollars into rich Republicans’ pockets, the greater America becomes.
Our kids will love us for the trillions of dollars of debt we’ll leave them. They will thank us for the lessons in responsibility and character. Just like making an example of those losers facing bankruptcy for medical expenses.
And above all, we can’t let the tax breaks for the richest Republican donors expire. They’ve already bought the government, why tax them, too?
And so, my friends, it is simple to see. What kind of fool would think change is needed?
God bless America! And may He continue to bless us with the greed that makes Him love US best.
*****
I could have sent my response along to “Uncle Ted”, but I’m just a little too worried about straying within rifle range of him. He’s a better shot than his buddy Dick Cheney.
At the very least it was an idiot’s guide to voting.
I’m particularly filled with pride by having the good fortune of seeing Ted Nugent was a previous recipient of this crucial message. Don’t you love it when your email address gets mindlessly forwarded along with the propaganda out to the seething masses?
The spam was kindly sent out by a “Good Republikaner” who took on the mission to alert Americans to the dastardly deed of one “despicable” Barack Obama.
What offending horror could Obama have committed this time?
Here’s what I learned. The wording is left as it was received.
“WHAT A DISGRACE!!! AND HE IS ALL AMERICAN????
Obama The Patriot - Removes American Flag From His PlaneBarack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail...
What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with a symbol of himself... Obama is such a despicable human being.
Please forward this if you're not ashamed of our country and our flag & if think this is a disgrace.”
Not wanting to be ashamed of our country, I did the patriotic thing. I replied to my fellow Americans with whom I was privileged to share this news.
*****
Thank you for bringing this urgent and compelling matter to my attention. I was wondering who I should vote for.
This really makes me think hard... And it is clearly the biggest REAL ISSUE that finally made up my mind. It sure does make me mad!
Why does Obama HATE AMERICA??
The MONSTER! He had his plane repainted! Every other presidential candidate does this for the last part of the campaign, but Obama did it wrong.
Why would anyone even think about voting for Obama?
That would be disgraceful and un-American. Just like removing the stylized flag image of the North American Airlines corporate logo on a plane. It was not a REAL flag, of course, or even a “symbol of his country”. It was a CORPORATE LOGO. Why, come to think of it, desecrating a corporate logo should be a crime in itself! Never mind there’s still an accurate flag depiction next to the exterior registration numbers on the plane. Just like on McCain’s plane.
It would just be stupid to elect Obama. Especially if you think about the outstanding public service we’ve seen from Bush and McCain.
Republican leadership sure has done a “heck of a job” with our employment opportunities, our economy, and international respect. And for our own good, I’m sure; they devalued our dollar to an unbelievable low. The Canadian dollar is leaving ours in the dust. If you have to ask what the dollar value of the Euro is now, you can’t afford it.
CEO pay has gone up even faster than OUR purchasing power has declined. And who can’t love the sweetheart tax breaks and legislation for the pharmaceutical industry and Big Oil? Corporate lobbyists and big business SHOULD be allowed to continue writing our laws to maximize their profit. That’s what good government is for, right? The more we transfer our tax dollars into rich Republicans’ pockets, the greater America becomes.
Our kids will love us for the trillions of dollars of debt we’ll leave them. They will thank us for the lessons in responsibility and character. Just like making an example of those losers facing bankruptcy for medical expenses.
And above all, we can’t let the tax breaks for the richest Republican donors expire. They’ve already bought the government, why tax them, too?
And so, my friends, it is simple to see. What kind of fool would think change is needed?
God bless America! And may He continue to bless us with the greed that makes Him love US best.
*****
I could have sent my response along to “Uncle Ted”, but I’m just a little too worried about straying within rifle range of him. He’s a better shot than his buddy Dick Cheney.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
