Oh Nevada
January 19th, 2008
I have written six or seven iterations of a post on Obama good, Hillary bad, but I think I’m gonna hold off on posting one for now, given that it may be a moot point, and I’ve certainly covered that terrain in the past.
Let me just say that I find it deeply disturbing that the Clintons are willing to let racism and voter suppression tactics contribute to their victory in the primaries. And it couldn’t come at a worse time. Many of the dumber conservative ideas — from Reaganomics to the Neo-Con projects — have been hoisted with their own petard. Put bad ideas into practice and you are bound to get bad results. Do it long enough, and people start to notice. There is fertile ground for new ideas and new leadership. Unfortunately, Clinton does not promise any of that. She only offers a willingness to out-shiv Republicans and a refusal to seek meaningful institutional change.
When we should be talking about carbon sinks, rising sea levels and solar power, we’re talking about cocaine use and middle names and imaginary taxes on the middle class. When it comes to that mindless discussion, and this new mindless Democratic Party, don’t you know that you can count me out.
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1. Barry | January 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am
116,000 Democrats participated in the caucuses in Nevada. As recently as the day before on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, they thought Harry Reid fantasizing 100,000 was, well, fatnasizing. (Last time it was 20 or 30,000.) This has gotta be good for the Democratics in general — and democracy — and for turning this country around.
And didn’t Mr Obama get more delgates out of Nevada than did Mrs. Clinton??
2. Mark Stamas | January 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Out-shiv, is that yours? Nice.
Very cool Lennon reference there.
As for carbon sinks, rising sea levels and solar power, well, I’ve got nothing to say, but it’s OK.
Obama will be the next President of the United States of America carrying on the revolutionary visionary tradition of Lincoln and Roosevelt. They too, lacked the experience to know any better, thankfully for our nation.
3. Mark Stamas | January 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Do a piece on the electoral process, delegates, super delegates and on. What the hell are we doing?
What happened to one person one vote? Or rather, when will we do that?
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