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This is a great opening “comebacker” for the McCain ads attacking Obama for being of all things, “elitist”.
As Joe Biden spoke today for the first time as Barack Obama’s running mate, he used the opportunity to attack John McCain, distancing himself from the Republican opponent he has called a friend.
After an introduction from Obama, Biden launched into a speech that, among other things, said McCain can’t understand the struggles of middle-class Americans when he owns seven homes.
“Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen table is like mine. You sit there at night before you put the kids — after you put the kids to bed and you talk, you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that’s not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It’s a pretty hard experience. He’ll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at,” Biden said, drawing cheers from the audience.
The Raw Story | Biden attacks McCain’s ‘7 kitchen tables’
When people turn away from informing themselves, and instead turn to the tube or the airwaves, and further, turn to what I call intellectual ghettos (the constructed echo chambers of “tasty morsels” presented in a format more akin to entertainment than that of “literate” , learned , informed education), then we get this “black hole” in the public where smears work to make politics into a game of “who’s less scary?”.
This guy, Corsey, has a book out (using a line that I can lay claim to —at least in my own mind—have come up with out of the blue, having never heard it before: “Obama-nation”. I was making some kind of comparison between administrations, and was listing “Clinton-nation”, “Bush-nation”, “Obama-nation”, oh…..heh heh, that’s funny, “Obama-nation”)….but back to the book….Corsey offers little in reliable information. Corsey “footnotes” himself in the book OVER and OVER. What a complete joke. The book is being bought in bulk by conservative groups to skew their numbers. It’s telling that such a questionable purveyor of “facts” is being pushed by conservative groups as the host of what is supposed to be damaging information on Obama. It says that, as usual, actual fact checking is not considered a danger (and why not, the Swift Boat stuff worked like a charm, and its “cult” followers , on cue, completely dismissed (ie refused to hear) any of the contradicting information. In the same fashion, they continue the trend of dismissing all of the testimony by the mounds of people from the inside of the Bush administration who have uncovered/revealed what was going on inside that administration from the time they took office. They dismiss it without any apparent cognitive dissonance about their complete lack of contrary evidence or testimony. Instead they throw out the “they just want to sell their book”, ignoring the fact that THEY only have books that are completely debunkable by direct contradiction.
The pushing of this anti Obama book” and my just having finished yet another in a long line of books that reveal the deceptions and corruptions inside the Bush White House (this time by Ron Suskind, who now has 3 of them, and Bob Woodward has one due out in September) has me just shaking my head at the “Denial” displayed by the Bush supporters (those who continue to do so without ONE shred of evidence NOR testimony that addresses, on the merits of the testimony itself, any “alternate” story. They have NOTHING.
Moyers spoke with Andrew Bacevich, retired military colonel
Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich who identifies three major problems facing our democracy: the crises of economy, government and militarism, and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life
I was somewhat amused that Borders considers Scott McClellan a liberal. His book appears in their list of books “From the Left” that I saw in a Borders Rewards email, under Politics.
“Books from a Liberal Perspective” is what comes up when you click , under “More Politics” the choice of “From the Left” vs the “From the Right” choice, and there is McLellan’s book. Obviously there because his book is creating grief for the White House.
Books from a Liberal Perspective - Borders - Books, Music and Movies
I guess the “editor” for political books doesn’t have a whole lot of political knowledge, or it may also be that the books are positioned to the audience who reads them. But then, the designation “Books from a Liberal Perspective” is woefully inadequate. It’s more like “Books Popular with a Liberal Perspective”. Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
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