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Parisle Donating Member (849 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 12:30 PM
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5. By all means,... let him reconsider,.....
Edited on Mon Dec-18-06 12:33 PM by Parisle
--- I don't even consider it to be a "flip-flop,' really. And I sure as hell don't trust the recent flurry of media attention directed at Senators Clinton and Obama. Somebody is being set up, it would appear. The GOP has planned an opposition to Hillary for years,.. rightwingers have fantasized about a chance to oppose her in 2008. So, is a right-wing media attempting to "decoy" her into the nomination,... only to re-focus on her "baggage" once the nomination is hers? Or to create the mirage of a struggle between Clinton and Obama (for fun & profit)? Those are my fears. The media wants everything at the level of fake wrestling.

---And Obama is still sort of untested and inexperienced, eh? Remember the nature of the fight we're in,........ up against wildly efficient global corporatists, and our own home-grown nazis. I suspect the 2008 election will be among the bloodiest in US history, metaphorically speaking. We can't spend the whole goddamned campaign talking about Vince Foster and Travelgate,.. and we can't nominate on the basis of Obama's ample charisma, either.

---Warner's return to the race would be a welcome one. After all, he's been the best governor in the country in the state which practically houses the federal government. Wesley Clark is still my own personal favorite,... Gore's credentials certainly surpass those of Clinton or Obama. Edwards is back. Feingold and Kucinich are perhaps our two most prodigious thinkers.

---A nomination-election process revolving around Hillary or Obama will be either a big-money power politics deal or a trivializing media circus,.. as well as a socio-political experiment in either case. Can the democrats get serious, get over themselves... and make a truly shrewd and effective choice?
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