Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy

from The Nation:



Obama v.Recount, Democracy v. Thugocracy
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 05/25/2008 @ 11:27pm




This Memorial Day Sunday, Barack Obama did what he described as "pinch-hitting" for one of his personal heroes, Senator Edward Kennedy. From many accounts, Obama's commencement address at Wesleyan College was rousing and inspiring. The Nation's Katha Pollitt was there and wrote on a listserv, "he was really excellent. ... the college opened graduation to outsiders -- LOTS of people, black and white, came from the area to hear him. My daughter, a junior, said she found it inspiring. she not very political, so that is a high compliment." What an antidote to Sunday night's HBO special, "Recount" --with scenes bringing back memories of Florida's slithery Secretary of State Katherine Harris --and other GOP thugs--stealing away our democracy. Remember Justice Antonin Scalia's three word sneer, "Get Over It." Those were words the Justice invoked in defending the stealing of the 2000 election. So, this May 25th, 2008, we had two Americas at work: One on our tv screens--a docudrama (more drama than docu) about the selection of a President; the other, a real-life drama with Senator Barack Obama standing in one for one of America's greatest Senators, speaking to students and calling them, and all of us, to our better angels, with determined idealism and grounded pragmatism. You choose. Thugocracy or Democracy.

Here are remarks of Senator Barack Obama: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/323530/obama_v_recount_democracy_v_thugocracy

unfortunately I think it's gonna come down to the same "Thugocracy or Democracy" paradigm this year. I have a sick and queasy feeling the Clinton camp got an idea from last night's Recount

was so spot on it was scary. Emmy for her, but not the show because of the parts they felt they had to add so that the repubs wouldn't look completely evil.

Laura Dern WAS Katherine Harris.
I distained her more and more,
every minute she was on the screen.

She deserves an Emmy for this role.

:applause:

getting to see Harris again. So cool to win an award for outing an asshole.

and the Supreme Court building in DC should have been overrun after they pre-empted the election. Hell is too good for the Felonious Five. They need to be made to suffer here on earth. Hopefully they'll be imprisoned at Gitmo after President Obama is sworn in.