In other election-related news, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting response to the big hoopla over that New Yorker cover (I can hear the outrage from David Gregory now):
The difference between the two, of course, being that this one at least has truth to it. St John is a confused old man, and Cindy McCain is a pill-popping, erm, "trollop" (although the "trollop" bit is not referenced, since that's a no-no, while attacking Michelle Obama has become routine). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
you are the media you consume.
Look what happened to Bush when he suggested privatizing Social Security. He didn't even get a bill written.
Beyond the foreign policy, on which I think someone like him could do well, I don't see his appeal. Maybe capitalizing on the Fed and Wall Street's unholy alliance, but I think people's eyes would glaze over, and he'd simply come off sounding like he was a hundred years old. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I wish we still had him, but the canonization of Wellstone among liberals really went too far. He was a good senator, pretty reliable, but not the God of Pregressivism he's been made out to be. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
And he's only a moderate progressive populist. A radical populist would get completely hammered by "free media", which remember is bought and paid for by large corporations. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
