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............With Teddy Kennedy nodding off in the background.
posted by UMRBlog @ 06:33
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Do you then believe that Hil is the "change agent" she claims to be?
Geez, you Clintonistas are pretty bitter about an endorsement that "didn't matter".
Next your going to say that Oprah had a tummy tuck (no relation).
Tuck,
'twas just a funny picture. I know a good sight gag when I see one.
TYFCB
0734,
I have no idea how you jump from a comment about a sight gag to that, but let me answer your question with a question: Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't think HRC would be a substantial change from McFlightSuit?
TYFCB
There's little doubt about that one counselor. That's the message that every politician seems to push. They are all "agents of change". Each one of them believes that the brand of change he or she pushes is the kind of change that the electorate not only wants but desperately needs. The country is falling apart, you see, and if there isn't change soon (and by soon, I mean sometime after January 2009), then... well, let's just not consider it. It might be more of the same.
Obama wants to change "the way we do business" in Washington. Good luck. Billary just wants to garnish your wages even if you don't want what she's selling. More to come, I'm sure.
In C.S. Lewis' book The Screwtape Letters, written from the point of view of a demon bent on undermining civilization (a perspective much like that of the two Democratic campaigns), the chief demon Screwtape instructed (I'm paraphrasing):
"Change is supposed to be a means to an end, but we have to convince people that it is an end unto itself."
Many have been convinced. And, for sure, mentioning it incessantly has become a political end unto itself.
I think I found a blog with someone else who tries to think.
For those of you who mentioned favorite readings, go back and revisit "Atlas Shrugged" and maybe the President's oath of office. Neither say cradle to grave government is the job of the president or people who do work. But that is the song of the "change agents", isn't it? They want cradle to grave with them as the rocker and the pall bearers.
Have you ever seen those multi-racial, computer-generated pictures politically-correct marketers sometimes place on packaging? I mean the ones that don't look like anyone you might actually meet; that is, unless, through marvels of genetic engineering, you somehow amalgamated the genes of every single racial and ethnic group on the planet into the Democratic National Committee's conception of an über-politician. Obama is as close as you'll come.
So the young flock to him because, weaned on political correctness, he fits their profile. Not only is he multi-racial, he has a cool, exotic foreign name, a resonant voice and rock-star persona. He isn't just a plain vanilla white dude. It doesn't really matter what he says.
Good thing for him, too, because he makes Romney seem like a font of ideological fortitude and depth. I honestly cannot address the substance of what he says because I've yet to detect any. But he's practiced in the platitude, speaking of change; being a uniter, not a divider; yada, yada, yada. His is a Seinfeld campaign: It's about nothing. But it sure is entertaining.
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