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Jan. 30th, 2008 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockSteve at No More Mister Nice Blog sums up my reaction to today's news quite nicely:
Edwards is dropping out? Well, once the race included both Obama and Clinton, Edwards never had a chance, any more than, say, Biden or Richardson did. For the press, Clinton/Obama is about celebrity, sizzle, heat; Edwards was once on a national ticket, so he wasn't quite put in the Boring Nobody category with Richardson and Biden, but he was treated like a guy whose category's award was given out at a separate ceremony earlier this afternoon. Obviously, the well-to-do elitists in the political press never wanted to take seriously a guy who has a left-wing critique of turbocapitalism, but keeping him off the front pages was made infinitely easier when they realized they could focus exclusively on Clinton vs. Obama as a red-carpet catfight and turn their coverage of the Democratic race into PerezHilton.gov. And now, with Talk-Show Couch McCain as the inevitable GOP nominee, it's going to be all People magazine from here on in (with McCain, however, portrayed as the ordinary guy who had celebrity thrust upon him by the Viet Cong)....
Canada's looking better by the day...
Edwards is dropping out? Well, once the race included both Obama and Clinton, Edwards never had a chance, any more than, say, Biden or Richardson did. For the press, Clinton/Obama is about celebrity, sizzle, heat; Edwards was once on a national ticket, so he wasn't quite put in the Boring Nobody category with Richardson and Biden, but he was treated like a guy whose category's award was given out at a separate ceremony earlier this afternoon. Obviously, the well-to-do elitists in the political press never wanted to take seriously a guy who has a left-wing critique of turbocapitalism, but keeping him off the front pages was made infinitely easier when they realized they could focus exclusively on Clinton vs. Obama as a red-carpet catfight and turn their coverage of the Democratic race into PerezHilton.gov. And now, with Talk-Show Couch McCain as the inevitable GOP nominee, it's going to be all People magazine from here on in (with McCain, however, portrayed as the ordinary guy who had celebrity thrust upon him by the Viet Cong)....
Canada's looking better by the day...
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Date: 2008-01-30 06:55 pm (UTC)At last, we can stop all this petty (yet flashy and ratings grabbing) focus on 'the black, the chick or... um... the other guy', and get down to issues like 'the black or the chick'.
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Date: 2008-01-30 06:59 pm (UTC)Are you better off than you were four years ago?
(Less than one year until I can retire this icon.)
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Date: 2008-01-30 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-30 07:10 pm (UTC)There are no more tears in me for the American electorate. Only burning seething contempt and explosive heavy shrapnel ordnance.
I used to think that it was awful when the Founding Fathers thought that not everybody should be allowed to vote, that it should be an earned privelege rather than a right.