Posted by
rycK on Monday, March 17, 2008 10:10:56 AM
We are Now Treated to the Era of The Politics of Hope, Hopeless that that Notion is in Leftist Politics.
There is hope and there is hope that the hope is hopeless depending on who stands where and who views how the current political gutter wars are conducted. We have learned that the words hope and change have no meaning other than to dazzle or mesmerize voters with minimal cognitive skills or perhaps those interred underground for decades and still anxious to caste a few votes. Today, the uselessness of these words is expanded to include new and more useless nuances.
It seems that the Race/Sleaze/Liberal Wars are now in the middle of the gritty campaign and both sides are running out of ammo.
Echoes from Clintoonery:
“"It is disappointing that a campaign that began by promising a politics of hope has come to this, that it is signalling[sic] and revelling[sic] in attacks on Senator Clinton's character," her communications director Howard Wolfson said.””[1]
The guns sound from the other side:
“"The Clinton campaign says she has been fully vetted but the truth is she is a veteran of non-disclosure," Obama chief strategist David Axelrod said.”[2]
“"All of this has created a sense that there are things she wants the public not to know," he said.”[3]
We might be able to read liar here or other appropriate word.
Here, we are tempted to hope that that the truth about both the Clintons may ooze up from some primordial swamp and enlighten us, but there is little chance of this. Clintoonery is rooted in Marxian politics, dirty money from Asian Communists, trips to Moscow for probably mole training and the kiss-but-don’t-tell mysteries of Hillary’s roomies at Wellesley. Billary will NOT divulge their tax returns or library circus gifts. We could wonder if Billy went without sex for three weeks in Russia and Hungary in 1969. Gennifer Flowers brings us fresh talking points about Hillary, who may be the best lover of the pair. [4] All these points bring hope to at least one political camp.
The Clinton Machine is normally scripted down to even the minimal variance in the circularity of an apostrophe. This allows weather vane politics and transparent flip-flopperism in many cases. She never makes a mistake unless she loses all controls and flies into a rage like Colonel Klebb and shrieks or utters a solemn sulfurous oath against one of her enemies or throws a lamp at Billy. One of the Obama Team referred to her as a monster, not a racist tern and not far from the truth either, but this was scant hope that such a contest could conducted with courtesy and aplomb. This is the most hopeless facet of the hope being bandied about in this chingaso. This scripting process, alone, is the very essence of secrecy and a frantic flight from the facts. Her comment that she has been ‘vetted’ means in scriptspeak [5]that she has so far escaped jail for her crimes and has aged compared to her lies and thus the right wing and others have nothing left to toss into her trenches. This may change if a former Clintoonista turns from the brilliance of her presence and rats her out.
As this were not enough to coax a few new sorties from one of the armies, we now find that Obama was a pew witness to some of the racist rants of his pastor Jeremiah Wright.
“Obama claimed Friday that “the statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity.”[6]
Refuted as:
“But Ronald Kessler, a journalist who has written about Wright’s ministry, claims that Obama was in fact in the pews at Trinity last July 22. That’s when Wright blamed the “arrogance” of the “United States of White America” for much of the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks. In any case, given the apparent frequency of such statements in Wright’s preaching and their centrality to his worldview, the pretense that over all these years Obama had no idea that Wright was saying such things is hard to sustain.”[7] [Emphasis is mine.]
This reference may be in error. As such, it is reatracted if not true. rycK 3.18.08
Here, Obama seems to allow the racist themes of a group that fully supports his candidacy by ‘disagreeing’ with some of the remarks or actually not having heard them. There is a theory in politics that works in this manner:
Theory and Mechanism: The objective is to get as much support from listeners as you can so you can be vague and mumble so that:
Group A heard exactly what you said and now are convinced that you are the right candidate for them.
Group B heard everything but was not able to accurately guess what some of the comments actually meant, but were hopeful that they meant what they should have meant to this group so this is the right candidate for them too.
Group C heard everything and was not interested in the facts as long as nothing favorable was mentioned about their enemies, so this is the right candidate for them.
Group D didn’t hear anything, but was dancing in the streets or howling in the pews and it wouldn’t matter what the candidate did or said or even if he said nothing or lied.
A proper scripting and the use of weasel words can be incorporated into a speech that imparts nothing of substance and yet grants enchantment all four groups. This is the mechanism and harvest of a gifted speechwriter or, better, a skilled propagandist. It is interesting that LBJ and Richard Nixon have never had such writers in their camps, but both Democrats have several.
Now, Geraldine Ferraro apparently forgot some simple rules when she said:
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Ferraro told a California newspaper. “And if he was a woman [of any color], he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.”
After this set off the proverbial and predictable firestorm, Ferraro responded by saying: “Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?”[8]
Isn’t this all very sordid and the convention is not until, when, July?! They could waste another 100 million dollars in this slugfest and provide some entertainment for the McCain camp and some of the rest of us.
This is the proper time for the superdelegates to just keep silent, let the mess deadlock and wait until both candidates have scattered all the fecal material in their arsenals to the media and the political winds and then, with some Manchurian Candidate Speech draft Al Gore, who is also vetted, but does not carry baggage like this pair. Al is a liar, crook, Communist, and EcoNazi but as yet not an identified racist. But, the year is young. He might be charged for carbon footprint sales fraud, but that would be past his inauguration date so that can be dismissed until it becomes a problem.
I nominate Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner as the grand nominee of the Party of Democrats!
rycK
[2]Clinton Lashes Out. Ibid.
[3]Clinton Lashes Out. Ibid.
[7] Generation Obama? Ibid.