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[ebonlock]

Steve 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...

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

That.... yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me too.
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'.

[pikabot]

COME, JOIN US IN THE NORTH

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And oh yeah. Peep this, from dems.gov
Are you better off than you were four years ago?

(Less than one year until I can retire this icon.)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

One of my coworkers yesterday actually said she wanted to vote for Obama because he spoke in such beautiful metaphors and reminded her a little of JFK. I asked her to please stop telling me things like that as it was making my head hurt. When I asked her to name one policy he claims to support that she agrees with, any policy mind you, she couldn't do it. I just wanted to weep.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If McCain wins the presidency I'm going to start the paperwork that week. Swear. To. God.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wish it still had that effect on me.
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.

[pikabot]

If nothing else, at least our electoral system isn't completely insane.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, at least our electoral system isn't completely insane.

It's kind of sad that that's become my bottom line requirement for where I want to live these days.

[houndartemis.livejournal.com]

I'm set on Ireland, myself.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply disappointed that Edwards did not really get a fair shot at reaching the American people.

It all goes back to my premise that the mass media is not our friend. AOL Time Warner, CNN, FOX, and most newspapers as well - have an agenda that is not intended to help the average American.

That's why I support tuning out of the mass media, (like not watching TV,) but I know you like a whole bunch of stuff that's being broadcast at the moment.)

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Edwards would have had a much better chance if the primary structure were more traditionally structured. If we were 3 weeks past Iowa and just about to hit New Hampshire, his message would be resonating a LOT more in light of the events of the last 10 days. (125 basis points cut in 8 days? Really?)

However, by the time the national press glommed onto the fact that the economy was going into the shitter, we were already done with Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, and were bearing down on our fourth single-state Dem primary with only one question: can Obama use Teh Blakk to derail H!TLERIEE KLINTOON!?!?!?111???

Like I say: once the press gets a narrative, they cling to it like a pit bull to a child's neck. I will refrain from making the obvious comparison, out of a desire to avoid sullying the good name of bitchy high school cheerleader cliques...but the Dean that our system needs isn't Howard, it's Jason. ;]