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Title: We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing
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Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam- ... a-frickin-lose-t_b_124772.html
Published: Sep 8, 2008
Author: Adam McKay
Post Date: 2008-09-08 22:49:09 by Horse
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Views: 304
Comments: 20
Stop saying that!" my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I'm not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we're gonna frickin' lose this thing. Obama and McCain at best are even in the polls nationally and in a recent Gallup poll McCain is ahead by four points. Something is not right. We have a terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate. We're coming off the worst eight years in our country's history. Six of those eight years the Congress, White House and even the Supreme Court were controlled by the Republicans and the last two years the R's have filibustered like tantrum throwing 4-year-olds, yet we're going to elect a Republican who voted with that leadership 90% of the time and a former sportscaster who wants to teach Adam and Eve as science? That's not odd as a difference of opinion, that's logically and mathematically queer. It reminds me of playing blackjack (a losers game). You make all the right moves, play the right hands but basically the House always wins. I know what you're going to say " But I won twelve hundred dollars last year in Atlantic City!" Of course there are victories. The odds aren't tilted crazy, but there is a 51%-49% advantage. And in the long run, the house has to win. The house will win. So what is this house advantage the Republicans have? It's the press. There is no more fourth estate. Wait, hold on...I'm not going down some esoteric path with theories on the deregulation of the media and corporate bias and CNN versus Fox...I mean it: there is no more functioning press in this country. And without a real press the corporate and religious Republicans can lie all they want and get away with it. And that's the 51% advantage. Think this is some opinion being wryly posited to titillate other bloggers and inspire dialogue with Tucker Carlson or Gore Vidal? Fuck that. Four corporations own all the TV channels. All of them. If they don't get ratings they get canceled or fired. All news is about sex, blame and anger, and fear. Exposing lies about amounts of money taken from lobbyists and votes cast for the agenda of the last eight years does not rate. The end. So one side can lie and get away with it. Now let's throw in one more advantage. Voter caging and other corruption on the local level with voting. Check out the article here on HuffPost about Ohio messing with 600K voters. If only five thousand of those voters don't or can't vote that's a huge advantage in a contest that could be decided by literally dozens of votes. That takes us to about a 52 to 48% advantage. I'm not even getting into the fact that the religious right teaches closed mindedness so it's almost impossible to gain new voters from their pool because people who disagree with them are agents of the devil. I just want to look at two inarguable realities: A) we have no more press and B) the Repubs are screwing with the voters on the local level. I'm telling you, we're going to lose this thing. And afterwords we'll blame ourselves the same way we did with Gore and Kerry (two candidates a thousand times more qualified to lead than W Bush.) Just watch.. McCain wins by a point or two and we all walk around saying things like "Obama was too well spoken." "Biden wasn't lovable enough." "I shouldn't have split those eights." "Why did I hit on 16? Why?!" So what do we do? 1) We give definitive clear speeches like Biden and Obama gave the other day about how no one talked about any issues at the Republican Convention and how they outright lied. But we do them over and over again. 2) We use the one place where it's still a 50-50 game -- the internet -- as much as we can. 3) But most importantly we should bring up re-regulating the media and who owns it and what that conflict of interest is a lot more. By pretending there's no conflict of interest we're failing to alert the public that they're being lied to or given a looking at a coin at the bottom of a pool slanted truth. Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. Disney, GE, Viacom, and Murdoch -- all want profits and the candidate and agenda that will get in their way the least. Obama and Biden should also create a "master sound bite sentence" and repeat it hundreds of times. It should be so true that even the corporations can't screw with it when it makes the airwaves. Here's my attempt: "Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming...no more." This race should be about whether the Republican Party is going to be dismantled or not after the borderline treason of the past eight years. But instead it is about making the word "community organizer" a dirty word and a beauty queen who shoots foxes from a plane. Someone is not in any way doing their job and it's the press. Or more specifically, that job no longer exists. Probably the worst offenders are the pundits who take the position that it's all just a game and say phrases like "getting a post-convention bump" or "playing to the soccer Moms." This isn't a game of Monopoly or Survivor. There are real truths that exist outside of the spin they are given and have an effect on lives. 250,000 Iraqi civilians are dead because we let our reality be distorted by the most effective propaganda machine in fifty years, the corporate American press. Money and jobs are flying out of this country as our currency becomes worthless and we're talking about the fact that McCain is a veteran. If someone busted into your house and robbed you would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda? This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we've got a way bigger military and we're angrier. People will get hurt and we'll pay the bill for the bullets. I'm telling you, unless we wake up, we're gonna lose this frickin' thing.
Poster Comment: Liberals are delusional. He thinks he has fine candidates in Obama and Biden. And then he blames the press for their loss. What a maroon!! Name one Republican anchor on any of the major newtworks over the last 60 years. McCain and Obama both support Amnesty for Illegal Aliens. MCCain and Obama both support an air strike against Iran which would launch WW III. I am currently mediating and praying about McCain's life expectancy. If I am convinced that McCain will die before 1-20-2009, I will vote for Sarah Palin and take my chances. We have no other hope for survival.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
The thought of Obummer being the real HNIC is damn scary. But then, the thought of McStain working up a rage in the Oval Office is not very pleasant, either.
As I commented a long time ago, 'the American people' used to be against the Iraq war in large number until recently NOT because it was wrong, immoral, criminal, wasteful or murderous but because 'we' were not winning. Now, that there are hints that 'victory' is possible, fewer people are opposed to it. You can't have an evil empire unless a large portion of the empire's citizenry are a proponent of evil or they don't really mind evil much. And, 'we' are an evil empire. The same people who re-elected Bubba and Double You are now about to pick between Double You Plus and Obama. We shall see.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
The Huffington Post is delusional. The REPUBLICANS have an ally in the media? The REPUBLICANS??? Good grief, they've done all they can to elect Obama. Polls show that half the people are sick of the media fawning over him and the HuffPo thinks the MEDIA is a fan of the REPUBLICANS??!! The Huffington Post has now officially jumped the shark and is quickly to fade into the dustbin of history as just another partisan attack rag.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
This guy needs to untwist his panties and take a deep breath.
lol. i stopped there. I am currently mediating and praying about McCain's life expectancy. that made me lol too.
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
classic!
You bought The Battle of New Orleans. really. i don't watch much tv, but when i have, i've seen this and zero touting of mcCain.
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
Much like the chest thumping "D"s who have found their inner war hawks now that there is a chance the "R"s are on the way out. Iraq is an evil war launched by those oil grubbing "R"s, but us "D"s will finish the job (read: more bombs and troops) and wage it 'right.' Seems that many only opposed the war because the wrong party was waging it. The same people who re-elected Bubba and Double You are now about to pick between Double You Plus and Obama. Ah, what a choice. A half dead zombie with his finger on the red button or the newly awakened WOsT champion who packs the cluster bombs in velvet gloves. As for the author's title, Obama "lost it" , though I still think he may win, when he back slid on his anti-war and anti-police state positions. Why? Because at a basic level most people know war = $$$. The USSR "won" itself into an economic meltdown. The US will do the same no matter how many victories it has on the battlefield.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
She would be better than McCain, though just about anyone would, but would also do as the elite say. They have a way of making people do what they want or bad things happen without fail.
God is always good!
When I saw her give her acceptance speech and knew she was lying about several things including the bridge fiasco I knew she was no different than the rest of the neocons. I wouldn't vote for her for any reason.
The story that the media is liberal was started in the 80s by the neocons. As I said before I have a friend from college who is now a VP at MSNBC and she told me last time I talked to her a couple of years ago that we don't see half of what is really happening... that the Justice Dept has come down hard on what can be broadcast to the public.
You had to have someone tell you this?
God is always good!
With a little editing you get this: four dollar (snip) war, rising (snip) housing market (snip)no more global warming! "Hey fellas, he must be for McCain!"
After talking with her I realize that it is much worse that I thought it was.
Liberals are delusional. No shit, something's wrong ... hahahaha this is laughable !!! The two statements above are a clear representation of the complete bafoonery eating away the brains of what were once common sense based, intelligent Americans that have degenerated into a society of pathetic, undisciplined, fat assed, lazy, materialistic, ignorant, self-indulgent, mall waddling, war-mongering, I-Pod worshipping, TV hypnotized, government idolizing, assholes that don't know the fucking difference between freedom and slavery or right from wrong. Please forgive me for being blunt but I just can't take the hypocrisy and gnashing of teeth by people afraid to "just say no" to criminals. Anyone that continues to argue the finer points of the bullshit election process and the pretended candidates, who remain willing to elect the lesser of two evils, so that they can be forced to finance the totalitarian police state BY THE PARTY OF THEIR CHOICE has got to be out of their suicidal,friggin mind. Who is the enemy ? It's you (US) bubba !!! It's you because you think we might survive by electing a half-breed, half-muslim, hyper-socialist as opposed to a cancer ridden, mafia owned, fascist nut case. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee dick-U'less. Hahahaha ! Sarah Palin is our savior ... ya gotta be shitting me ! We have a rabid dog gnawing on our leg and you want to vote on what to do about it. Realize that you're a communist whether you're a democrat commie or a republican commie ... or for that matter a libertarian commie or an independent commie. You're all communists if you send one fucking red cent to the bastards in D.C. It's really past time for us to ADMIT WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM, AND WE'RE IT. This is not an accident. We have been taught since birth to believe lies. Think, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy !!! Now think, freedom, capitalism, religion, government of the people ... all horseshit, just like home-ownership ... y'all communists are getting ready to own each others homes in a collective called the government of the U.S. Inc., which might be owned by the Chinese or the Bank of England. One thing is for certain, you've been hornswaggled, butt-fucked and tossed to the wolves, because YOU DON'T OWN SHIT. YOU ARE OWNED, and you've even forfeited your soul to the demons of materialism. Going along to get along ... what nonsense ... you want to get along with scumbags, and murdering warmongers that are willing to kill children by the hundreds of thousands. Fuck the trees and the whales, I'm talking about the brotherhood of man. They are killing millions of us each decade and we sit dumbfounded and hypnotized by the television images of them pointing the finger at each other ... when they are all in it together. [The Pope did it, no ... the Masonics did it ... no the Jews did it ... THEY ARE ALL DOING IT ... but it's US allowing them to do so.] Oh let's talk about Sarah Palin, let's talk about John McCain, or Barak Obama or Joe Biden ... politics is so stimulating ... gimme a break. Do I give a shit if Sarah Palin had an affair ? Do I care if Joe Biden has 100,000 hair plugs or 1,000,000 ? Let's talk about the blood-sucking child murdering vampires that are destroying the nation and intend to kill your kids and grand kids. Let's discuss our VOLUNTARY participation in the very system that orders us to finance the murder. Is this subject too serious ??? You're paying for it ... YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT !!!!! Ok then kids, get back in the (politics-sex-booze-drugs) play-pen, it was just a nightmare, go back to sleep. I will vote for Sarah Palin and take my chances. We have no other hope for survival. This has to be the saddest commentary on manhood in America that I have ever heard in my fucking life. Sarah Palin is our savior, our last hope ! Go back to the mall, the television, the dope or whatever escape from reality best suits ya ! Our patience with this corruption has already killed millions. I can understand a certain amount of reticence on the part of good honest people to revolt violently, no one wants trouble ... but brothers and sisters we have TROUBLE. Is it too much to ask that people peacefully resist funding the murderers ? God, I hope I'm never in a foxhole with the pussies that are afraid to tell an illegitimate government "no, I won't fund the murder of children" ... is that beyond your abilty ? Try saying it the other way around ... "YES SIR, I'M HAPPY TO FUND THE MURDER OF CHILDREN" ... "LET'S BOMB SOME MORE PEOPLE" Actually, people that are satisfied to do battle on the internet, shadow boxing over ridiculous politics, gossiping about shit that will never matter except that it keeps the conversation from being about shit that does matter ... are doing exactly what the powers that be want, FUCKING NOTHING ! TODAY WE'RE the problem ... tomorrow we can be THE SOLUTION. RESIST EVIL AND IT WILL FLEE FROM YOU !!!
"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States." "Mr. Chairman, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here that the United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country. . and was to supply financial power to an international superstate -- a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the World for their own pleasure."
It actually is. With the exception of financial periodicals and Faux News and right-wing talk radio, it is a liberal media. Ted Turner is on record commenting about Faux News as saying "They finally got their own network." If that isn't an admission then what is? Our local newspaper here hasn't met a Democrat it won't endorse nor a tax increase it didn't lobby for. Its For The Children, of course. They just laid off 500 people because of cancellations. The editorial pages are filled with "Vote Obama or you're a racist" these days. Nobody needs to pay to be insulted.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
We shall see. bump
gross.
the same lying perversion of a human being
-Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: Horse (#0)
#3. To: Horse (#0)
#4. To: Horse (#0)
I am currently mediating and praying about McCain's life expectancy. If I am convinced that McCain will die before 1-20-2009, I will vote for Sarah Palin and take my chances. We have no other hope for survival.
#5. To: Horse (#0)
#6. To: Horse (#0)
We have a terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate.
#7. To: TwentyTwelve (#4)
could have been
We recommend: Conway Twitty
#8. To: mirage (#3)
Good grief, they've done all they can to elect Obama. Polls show that half the people are sick of the media fawning over him
#9. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#2)
(Edited)
As I commented a long time ago, 'the American people' used to be against the Iraq war in large number until recently NOT because it was wrong, immoral, criminal, wasteful or murderous but because 'we' were not winning. Now, that there are hints that 'victory' is possible, fewer people are opposed to it.
#10. To: Horse (#0)
If I am convinced that McCain will die before 1-20-2009, I will vote for Sarah Palin and take my chances. We have no other hope for survival.
#11. To: Horse (#0)
Sarah Palin
#12. To: mirage (#3)
#13. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#12)
she told me last time I talked to her a couple of years ago that we don't see half of what is really happening
#14. To: Horse (#0)
Obama and Biden should also create a "master sound bite sentence" and repeat it hundreds of times. It should be so true that even the corporations can't screw with it when it makes the airwaves. Here's my attempt: "Katrina, four dollar gas, a trillion dollar war, rising unemployment, deregulated housing market, global warming...no more."
#15. To: RickyJ (#13)
#16. To: Horse, all (#0)
Something is not right. We have a terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate. We're coming off the worst eight years in our country's history.
#17. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#12)
The story that the media is liberal was started in the 80s by the neocons.
#18. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#2)
The same people who re-elected Bubba and Double You are now about to pick between Double You Plus and Obama.
#19. To: TwentyTwelve (#4)
I will vote for Sarah Palin and take my chances. We have no other hope for survival.
#20. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#11)
she is no different than the rest of the neocons
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