tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post405019719143958765..comments2023-09-29T06:57:06.991-07:00Comments on Anglachel's Journal: McCain's Houses on Planet of the ChimpsAnglachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110546252851760414noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-52340755137362427352008-08-24T08:19:00.000-07:002008-08-24T08:19:00.000-07:00It's my opinion the press has flipped because thei...It's my opinion the press has flipped because their boss, the top 1%, wish it so. It seems the GOP and McCain are still too much middleman between the owners and the rest of us to be viewed favorably . However Obama is pure corporate puppet. His very nothingness is part of the attraction and in a Party of mushy, eager enablers too. Obama also the brings the threat of hot and cold running social discord as an added bonus.<BR/>The top 1% would like nothing more than to ram through economic shock and awe as the distracted TWP and AA go at it.<BR/><BR/> I believe the top 1% want Barry, but will settle for McCain if they have to. It's a win win for them and I have never seen elite Dems work harder than in their service.I have never seen elite Dems fight harder than they do against Hillary Clinton... the actual Dem among them . They cannot not do enough, they so desperately want to be the new servant.<BR/><BR/>IMO McCain would be Bush 3.0 , but Barry would be Bush 5.8 and that's why they want him.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-17496585583118248822008-08-23T19:19:00.000-07:002008-08-23T19:19:00.000-07:00I guess I disagree with both you and Somerby when ...I guess I disagree with both you and Somerby when I sense that y'all think this isn't a legitimate issue and is "beneath" us. Frankly, and I mean this with a lot of respect and with a nod to your own confessions about your background, that's the Stevensonian in you talking. You know, the good government, clean politics, intellectual, we're above the visceral appeal approach. Sure I agree there's a certain element of cheap feces flinging here, but it serves a wholly valid political point - helping to demolish once and for all the ruse that our conservative pols are salt of the earth jes plain folks that we can trust over those effete elitist liberals. As Greenwald has pointed out, a lot, the seedy reality is that these guys are rich, spoiled, often morally decadent dudes who've either had everything handed to them or cheated their way to the top, and yet they speak for a philosophy that would deny help to anyone who needs it. Somerby himself has called on career liberals not to assist or stay mum in letting them get away with this specious myth building and to stop it in its tracks. I read his stuff this week on this, and yeah, I agree the incident plays on some level to the insipid personal stuff the MSM loves. We don't have to leave it there, though, not if we use it to point out that the Republicans are led by the rich, for the rich and nothing but the rich, and that the incident is very revealing of that underlying reality. And that when the public hears their sanctimonious lectures about elitism, the public can be primed to react to it as empty bullshit put out there by plutocrats who want to cut their benefits and obstruct any effort to help them. I hope we use it that way, and if we did, I think we'd serve a lot of the objectives that both you and Somerby have been talking about. Just saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com