| I just saw a recast of the September 24th CBS Katie Couric interview |
[Sep. 25th, 2008|03:47 am] |
Dear Senator Obama,
Do not suspend your presidential campaign, Do not suspend it for one minute. Go to the Senate floor for negotiations and votes, and maintain contact with your constituency by electronic means. Have your family and campaign staff, and those of Senator Biden, continue to appear at rallies. Your opponent's slimy request that you abandon your quest for a Democratic Administration is motivated by his desires to increase his own pocketbook and those of his fellow super-rich. Another Republican Administration would accelerate America's divide into a country of haves and have-nots, where the have-nots are increasingly denied the right to vote. Work for change. Stay on the campaign trail.
Democratically yours,
Priss Prisstofferson
Dear Senator McCain,
Why what a clever idea. If the campaign is suspended, the other candidate will never get to meet the public and never get to answer their questions. Your greater name recognition might just edge you over the top. And clever too, to represent your call for him to pick up his marbles and go home as taking the high road. No, conceding to you would not be best for the public, it would be best for the arms dealers and insurance companies, and best for your retirement income someday when they would reward you for your role as a loyal vassal. Today we have telephones and video cameras. These can be combined into a powerful communication instrument that would allow you to stay in touch with the public and with the Press. You also have a running mate. You could request that the Vice-Presidential debate be held first, while you seclude yourself in a Senate committee room. It seems likely to me that Senator Biden would be willing to pop out of chambers, whip out a debate, and then dash back to the Capitol if there were really some effective stopgap plan to be hammered out. The Press has made much of your campaign's reluctance to take Sarah Palin out of the Saran Wrap, but debates are a traditional part of American Presidential races. If you back away from personally participating, you appear to have something to hide. So get out there and debate, or send your running mate in your stead. Wassamatter, are you yeller?
Republicanly yours,
Priss Prisstofferson |
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| Jeremiad |
[Apr. 30th, 2008|05:24 pm] |
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/the_full_wright_transcript.php
The Atlantic Monthly site posted the full text of aptly named Jeremiah Wright April 28th interview at the National Press Club. I didn't find it to be bizarre or shocking, Political dissent from religious sources has an ancient tradition. He is advocating for a less militaristic society, and I would be in favor of that. As to fears about biological weapons, we did develop and stockpile anthrax bacteria, so far from being unimaginable, an attempt at preparation for germ warfare by the American government has already happened.
Contrary to what I have been hearing as a television news sound bite, he did not specifically say that HIV/Aids was developed on purpose to infect black Americans. He did refer to an alarmist book and author. Not having read the book in question, I don't know the content. Even if it is as unfounded as the newscasters seem to imply, our lack of priority for access to healthcare does have the effect of shortening the lives of the low-income, who are disproportionately of minority ethnic groups.
One more thing: I had no idea that Protestants had co-opted the term "Liberation Theology". That's so cool! |
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| Another Day, another candidate |
[Sep. 7th, 2007|08:00 am] |
Fred Thompson seems to be slightly brain-damaged. Not to a degree of vegetable-itude, but there are clues in his speaking style that suggest permanent effects of a few solid knocks to the head. Oh look, the Google tells me that his spin organizations are bragging about his High
School football experience, and specifically that he wasn’t concerned when he got knocked down. Well, commendations on a non-whiny demeanor, but consolations on the attendant loss of emotional expression and the reduction in sharpness of enunciation. Has any capacity for compassion, conservative or otherwise, been retained? This year many of the Republican hopefuls exude an air of physical frailty. The one exception is Giuliani, with his cardio-fitness and irritating perkiness. Last week I saw several magazine covers with illustrations of Giuliani along with Clinton and Obama. It was interesting that they didn't include Romney. Was Romney omitted from the spotlight out of predjudice, or are publishers trying to sell Giuliani as a psuedo-Democrat, as the perfect middle of the road-er, simply because he is from the east coast? If he were elected, he would support whatever the republicans in Congress asked him to. The press may try to assign him the perception of having good intentions, but he would sign the same bills that any other Republican would.
But I've ventured into policy and I wanted to talk about style. Thompson is seen as the one hope to draw in those non-denominational fundamentalist family values voters who the regressive tax policy, anti-health care, anti-school proponents can't win without. His religious affiliation is one they share, and the halting speech adds folksiness to his image. Primary voters don't make their choices based on who they think will do well across the country, they look at the issues and at how candidates talk about them. If Romney should become the nominee, it is going to be fun to watch the right regroup to embrace him, and float third-party candidates, and even vote for church-going Democrats who value their families. |
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| Oh Mama |
[Feb. 10th, 2007|10:02 am] |
Obama formally announces national candidacy.
It's an historic day.
----I'm stoked! |
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