The Muddle Is the Message
Obama on the Ropes
by Ted Rall
Remember hope? Audacity? Change? Platitudes all, and wonderful marketing for a country that was anything but post-partisan, much less post-political.
Obama's campaign relies on imagery, not ideology. He has fans, not supporters. He won the Democratic nomination by acting like a rock star, not a politician. Turning to traditional politics (as he did by picking Biden) will expose his weaknesses on a playing field on which he has little experience — and could cost him the presidency.
Cleaning Up After Bush
by William Pfaff
The neoconservative determination that America must dominate at any cost a Hobbesian world driven by greed and self-interest has won the day. The television-rattled public fails to grasp just what this means, and for eight years the Democrats have been frightened into silence by the threat of being outed as unpatriotic.
Sen. Joseph Biden, according to the analysts, was made the Democratic vice presidential nominee because he knows everything about foreign policy. But everything that he knows about foreign policy is just what everybody else in Washington knows and thinks, and would never dream of questioning. There’s the problem.
Satire: Things Are Awfully Not Funny Around Here
by Mark Drolette
“Whatever next all-forsaken place the American imperialist war machine decides to pulverize into a fine radioactive dust -- whether Iran or the oil-rich plains of the planet Gruptar -- I want the US to get its ass kicked.”
I gasped. “You realize what you’re saying, right?”
“That more US soldiers would have to die for that to happen?” he said, sadly. “Yeah, I get it. But their fates, and those of untold others, were sealed by the jingoistic bloodlust of millions of American yahoos who mindlessly exhorted Bushco’s slaughter in Iraq from the trumped-up beginning. Sure, the public’s hinky now but that’s mainly because gas prices rocket ever skyward. No, not until America suffers an undisputed, all-out, thoroughly humiliating military defeat is there a chance its global rampage will finally be abated. ‘Course, there may not be a human left alive after such a confrontation, but that’s another matter.”
Video: Barack Obama Completes Us
from The Daily Show
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