This has to be the number one reason that I continue to blog. It is important to bear witness-then and now, for all to read..
via Jim.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Super Duper Tuesday
It occured to me that we should hunker down and watch this somewhere. That is, if we can find somewhere that will let us! Suggestions?
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Obamarama!: The fallout
And out come the knives...
First up: The fun loving fuckers at the ironically named Free Republic. You know, the four people who think Fred Thompson is a good candidate.
Second: The Hillary folks and head scratching. Recriminations..."My Divine Right, damn you!"
However, something that has to be lingering around our unconscious is that Old Hand of God America is status quo to its hard hearted core, and, as such, tends to exert its reactionary tendencies by killing everybody who threatens its continued hegenomy. Judging by some of these freaky Freepers, its something we need to remember. Dinosaurs tend to not go quietly.
First up: The fun loving fuckers at the ironically named Free Republic. You know, the four people who think Fred Thompson is a good candidate.
Second: The Hillary folks and head scratching. Recriminations..."My Divine Right, damn you!"
However, something that has to be lingering around our unconscious is that Old Hand of God America is status quo to its hard hearted core, and, as such, tends to exert its reactionary tendencies by killing everybody who threatens its continued hegenomy. Judging by some of these freaky Freepers, its something we need to remember. Dinosaurs tend to not go quietly.
Defenders of the Faith
The media seem a bit discombobulated about the recent turn of events. This isn't what we scripted. It's amazing: The writers go on strike, and the Hillary narrative goes to shit. Wink Romney's perfect hair is a little ratty, his ambitions are looking unreachable. So we cast ourselves as being the defenders of bipartisan America. Driftglass has a good illustration of some of these the embedded meme in this ideological pose: We are defending America's center against the polarizing ideological extremists. This could have been ripped from Andrew Sullivan's excellent piece on Obama, and how and why he has resonated.: He is a rejection of the binary paradigm of the sixties. The Boomers, as with so much of their inherent selfishness, are not inclined to give up their ideological enemies list, their pet peeves, and we are further burdened with an phony "us and them"-A real Hopper Tyranny. Let it go. Nixon's dead. The Eagles suck.
Can we please move on? Let's rebel against these folks. They are the establishment. They are "the man."
Can we please move on? Let's rebel against these folks. They are the establishment. They are "the man."
Friday, January 4, 2008
The Good News
Way to go, Hawkeyes.
You didn't believe the hype and let the media annoint Hillary.
Obama wins in Iowa, and gives one hell of a speech in the process. I feel like history maybe in the making.
Update: Nathan tells us true (and with a Bloom County reference to boot!).
"I am at once very pleased and freaked the fuck out right now.
I personally don’t buy the whole 'As Iowa goes, so goes the nation' meme, but assuming I’m wrong tonight’s Iowa caucus results say some mighty interesting things about the state of the union and where it might be going. Obama’s my man, and has been pretty much from the get-go. Although Kucinich far more represents me on the issues, both Dennis and I knew in our heart of hearts that he’s not likely to be president any time this decade. He threw his support behind Barack and so did I. Likely for similar reasons. "
Given the last seven nightmare bizarro world years, its easy to be pensive about the future: Bush has done everything to make sure there is no future. Indeed, he is very much like those idiots who used to hang on Short Vine, who thought that Johnny Rotten's warning/lament about "No Future" was a mission statement. So hope is in short supply, but there is a light over at the Obama-stein place.
Now, I'm not gonna go all gooey yet, especially because there still so many ways for Hillary to fuck this up, but I have to tell you: I woke up today feeling great. Election day 2004 was waiting on a miracle, because this is George Bush we're talking about, and like his father, I won't and didn't trust him as far as I can throw him, and I knew some shit was going to go down and -lo and behold-a terror alert in OHIO?!!?
No, I feel great. Like a new dawn is coming. Really, not just a choice between the lesser of two evils, but like something else is going down.
I'm stoked.
Oh, and Huckleberry can suck it. I don't care how much he likes The Ox.
You didn't believe the hype and let the media annoint Hillary.
Obama wins in Iowa, and gives one hell of a speech in the process. I feel like history maybe in the making.
Update: Nathan tells us true (and with a Bloom County reference to boot!).
"I am at once very pleased and freaked the fuck out right now.
I personally don’t buy the whole 'As Iowa goes, so goes the nation' meme, but assuming I’m wrong tonight’s Iowa caucus results say some mighty interesting things about the state of the union and where it might be going. Obama’s my man, and has been pretty much from the get-go. Although Kucinich far more represents me on the issues, both Dennis and I knew in our heart of hearts that he’s not likely to be president any time this decade. He threw his support behind Barack and so did I. Likely for similar reasons. "
Given the last seven nightmare bizarro world years, its easy to be pensive about the future: Bush has done everything to make sure there is no future. Indeed, he is very much like those idiots who used to hang on Short Vine, who thought that Johnny Rotten's warning/lament about "No Future" was a mission statement. So hope is in short supply, but there is a light over at the Obama-stein place.
Now, I'm not gonna go all gooey yet, especially because there still so many ways for Hillary to fuck this up, but I have to tell you: I woke up today feeling great. Election day 2004 was waiting on a miracle, because this is George Bush we're talking about, and like his father, I won't and didn't trust him as far as I can throw him, and I knew some shit was going to go down and -lo and behold-a terror alert in OHIO?!!?
No, I feel great. Like a new dawn is coming. Really, not just a choice between the lesser of two evils, but like something else is going down.
I'm stoked.
Oh, and Huckleberry can suck it. I don't care how much he likes The Ox.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The Caucus: Dogs and Cats, Living Together Edition
This is a little weird, but Kucinich is evidentally backing Obama, and Nader is backing Edwards.
As noted in the C & L post, it's almost counter intuitive: Obama is arguably more center than Kucinich, and Nader, according to some, is the fucking anti christ (a specious argument at best), yet here we are.
This doesn't help me out one bit, except that there are others coming above ground with the assertion that Hillary is a Neo Con in Liberal Clothing.
Update: Including Michael Moore, given his revelations about Hillary's HMO graft. If we can get Hillary to go down in flames, I would be a pretty happy SOB.
As noted in the C & L post, it's almost counter intuitive: Obama is arguably more center than Kucinich, and Nader, according to some, is the fucking anti christ (a specious argument at best), yet here we are.
This doesn't help me out one bit, except that there are others coming above ground with the assertion that Hillary is a Neo Con in Liberal Clothing.
Update: Including Michael Moore, given his revelations about Hillary's HMO graft. If we can get Hillary to go down in flames, I would be a pretty happy SOB.
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