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Title: Election 2008? Spare me already.
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Published: Sep 26, 2006
Author: Burkeman1
Post Date: 2006-09-26 03:49:08 by Burkeman1
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Views: 514
Comments: 9
We are turning the corner into 2007 in a couple of months and that means we will soon be inundated with an ever increasing volume of media pap about our empty ritualized Presidential elections, the goal of which is to get us to actually stand in line for 45 minutes one day in November 2008 and cast a statistically meaningless ballot for either one of two Beltway putupjob insiders with nary a real difference between them. I barely participated in those threads during the last election and I have no intention of doing so this time around either. I thought I would save some time though for the rest of you and give you a summary of “election” and all the “issues” that our media will create around it and that we are supposed to care about. For purposes of this article I am just going to assume that Hillary will be the Dem candidate and McCain will be the GOP candidate. I could be wrong- but it really doesn’t matter who the nominees are. They will be fully vetted DC insiders and made members of the Beltway mob. The primaries will be the usual boring affairs with the staged excitement for the GOP being around the immigration issue. The anti immigration vote will be split among a field of 3 or 4 putupjobs and thus nullified. The issue will not feature much past the Republican primary as McCain gets the nod. The anti immigration candidates will be obvious putupjobs as they will barely have any money and they will barely make a pretense at running. Among the Dems- the antiwar vote will be split among similar putupjobs and pro war Hillary will get the nomination. The Iowa Caucus will determine the “winner” for all intent and purpose. What can we expect the campaign to look like? What will the “issues” be? Here are a few: “Independent groups” will spread ads and rumors about Hillary being either a rug muncher back in Wellesley College or a communist who met with the KGB in Moscow or both. This will be a low level third tier wing nutter media campaign in which they will bitch about the MSM not covering their “facts” because of its “liberal bias”. “Independent groups” will spread rumors about McCain’s POW experience in Viet Nam. This will be the reverse SWIFT BOAT “issue”. GOPERS will feign shock that the DEMS are daring to question a veteran and DEMS will insist on the need for the “truth” to come out. Hillary’s old scandals will resurface from time to time like the Cattle Futures. Whisper Campaigns about McCain’s bad temper and even sanity will be floated. A major “issue” will be the media itself- as it once again “debates” its coverage and pretends to flog itself. We have heard this a million times. There will be some talk about the Green Party taking away votes from the Dems and the recriminations from liberals begging their base to not vote for Nader- another putupjob. The debates will feature . . . boredom- as Hillary and McCain trade pre- written one liners about minute differences over the latest Mega Bills on education and health care before congress and attempt to make us believe that this or that tiny tax cut for this or that income level is some earth shattering world changing “issue” that we have to care about. The media will then analyze the debates looking to see who smirked out of place or had the wrong demeanor at the wrong time and pronounce the winner. Hillary will say she can do better on the war in Iraq- while McCain will say he can do better than her. The reichwing media will ignore Hillary’s pro war stance and insist she is just a commie who wants to destroy America. The Left wing media will ignore McCain’s big government votes and insist he wants to kill old people on medicare. One of them will win. It doesn’t matter which. So there- a thumbnail sketch of the great “election” to come. I won’t be on those threads much.
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#1. To: Burkeman1 (#0)
Ah yes, another feather in the cap of the two-party sham. Set the qualifications so that they can only be achived by the two(so-called) major parties.
Do you think if Hillary wins there will be ANY mention among all those chattering "political science experts" the MSM trots out to repeat the same idiotic bromides they always do- about just what a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton succession means? Or will they will just ignore that obvious sign of ossification and Oligarchic control and blather away about this or that non existent "voter trend" and tell us "why" who won?
Thanks for sparing us the tedium. Maybe Edwards but not Hillary. Whoever it is, they are walking into a real mess.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Great Post, Burkee. Accurate, too, I suspect.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
Of course not. If at all, it'll be nothing more than a small talk quip across the panel, maybe in reference to a late night host pointing it out for them. yes, with all the obfuscation of only the best Madison ave. has to offer.
I believe that it's going to be Giuliani for the GOPs. Hillary almost beat Giuliani in New York in 2000. Since then, Hillary worked hard to look more 'conservative' while Guiliani moved comfortably into the homo agenda and became one of the 2 favorite AIPAC boys but Newt tends to talk too much so Rudy would be AIPAC's #1 boy. Would it matter whether Hillary or Rudy win? It might. Believe it or not, Hillary, like her hubby, is more likely to listen to the opinion polls and not likely to do really stupid things. Rudy, on the other hand, he knows that his days are numbered because he had dick cancer and he could die tomorrow so he would do whatever it takes to advance Israel's national interest because, if he does otherwise, he doesn't get any sugar from his Zionist mistress.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
I, too, will make a prediction. The next planned winner of the presidency [along with his or her henchmen whores in the Capitol] will slam the last nail in the coffin that used to be the free and sovereign United States of America, and will be the one to usher in literal hell on earth in this country. You think we've lost freedom under bush, just wait. The next one will preside over nuclear False Flag "fat boy", or at least its aftermath. The next one will be the one to start the roundup of the red and blue lists and take them to the concentration camps. While bush is a minor inept demon, the next one will be taken to be beelzebub in the flesh. In other words, how much more will the sheople take before taking up arms? If now now, when? When we are in chains or totally disarmed? [Patrick Henry]
The debates will feature . . . boredom
Think I'll plan on splitting firewood instead.
#2. To: hammerdown (#1)
#3. To: Burkeman1 (#0)
Excellent wrap.
#4. To: Burkeman1 (#0)
#5. To: Burkeman1 (#0)
#6. To: Burkeman1 (#2)
Do you think if Hillary wins there will be ANY mention...about just what a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton succession means?
and blather away about this or that non existent "voter trend" and tell us "why" who won?
#7. To: Burkeman1 (#0)
#8. To: Burkeman1 (#2)
***LEAP***
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and choking life.
-- Osama bin Laden
"A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William K Clifford
#9. To: robin (#4)
Yes, but a mess of their own making.
Whoever it is, they are walking into a real mess.
The Khazar-Jew dream; Christians killing Muslims, and Muslims killing Christians. What could be better than that? Well, Whites killing non-Whites and non-Whites killing Whites, of course.
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