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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
 Posted - 09/16/2008 : 15:12:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Rubicon95
If I was Obama, I'd REALLY hammer at McCain with a Phil Gramm-mortgage crisis-banking lobbyist connection. |
Obama is doing just that and he's cutting his inspiring rhetoric in favor of blunt talk.
My fear is the media, other than the NY Times and Chris Matthews, who yesterday on MSNBC ripped apart a Republican spokesperson for implying somehow that Obama is to blame for the financial crisis,) will shrug and still focus on Palen's next repeated lie.
Meanwhile on Election Day, I wonder how many "good, honest" John & Mary Sixpacks in a Midwest swing state will also shrug and in the privacy of the voting booth punch McCain against all their best interests, because Obama is black. (I want to be wrong about that but there's still a lot of racism hiding in this country.)
I'll just keep working for Obama and try to stay cool. |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 09/16/2008 : 15:45:52 [Permalink]
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R95 said:
I believe consumerism and political apathy is the main cause of our dumming down - not the rise of fundamentalism. That might be an effect.
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Anti-intellectualism has been a recognized phenomenon since the late 1950s.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Rubicon95
Skeptic Friend
USA
220 Posts |
Posted - 09/17/2008 : 07:43:11 [Permalink]
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"Anti-intellectualism has been a recognized phenomenon since the late 1950s."
Madison Avenue began it's rise in the 1950's.
We're both in agreement with the dangerous downward spiral of intellectualism and it's ill effects on society. We differ in how it got there.
I've been formulating my view ever since seeing C-Span BookNotes interview of Benjamin Barber. It was regarding his book, "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole".
(yep that is a plug for the book) |
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Bad news for McCain and the country...
