Mon 22 Jan 2007
Political pop-tarts
Posted by shelbinator under Politics
- Apparently, there’s quite the smear campaign going on simultaneously against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and I’m just now hearing about it. I wondered for a moment how I could have been so out of the loop, but then I remembered, I read the news, not soiled reams of toilet paper, and I’ve never been able to watch more than five seconds of freaky eyebrow-less reactionaries without getting dizzy.
- Niger Innis is an awkwardly named conservative Republican strategist who likes to talk trash from behind a big, goofy grin on the political talk shows. He is also just another bloviating dillrod: “Politics is a full-contact game…. You’d better get used to it,” he says of the anti-Obama smear campaign, apparently implying that blatant lies and fabrication are “fair game.” No wonder people think so poorly of the political process, with dipsticks like Innis getting the limelight.
- In other disturbing news, Sen. Clinton is still the Democratic front-runner, despite the fact that less than 10% of the active Democrats I know actually admit wanting to see her nominated. I have to wonder what Democrats these polls keep asking about this — but then I see the equally disturbing figure that John “I voted for the $87B before I got my ass beat” Kerry polling several points above my boy Joe Biden. Clearly, these poll-takers watch too much Fox reality TV, and clearly, I need to start talking up Sen. Biden’s merits here early and often (particularly since his internet presence isn’t quite as spiffy as Clinton’s or that handsome devil’s with the uncool shoes.
- Then again, just how democratic is a spiffy online presence, anyway? Perhaps not so much, say some.
- Yes, I do find it terribly redeeming to my anti-YouTube campaign that John Edwards is on Blip.TV.
- And speaking of Joe Biden, he is the answer none of the talking heads mention when they let the right wing blowhards blow hard about the Democrats not offering up their own alternative plan for Iraq. I’ll be curious to see how much of the Biden plan is plagiarized by the President in tomorrow night’s State of the Union address.
- And speaking of the SOTU, I hope I can figure out a good way to live-blog it in the next 22 hours, as we’ll be kicking off another round of the rowdy SOTU-Watch drinking game behind sixty glorious inches of HDTV.
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January 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 am
What slays me is it took all of a day and a plane ticket to Jakarta for CNN to source the truth about Obama’s school. Fact checking. Journalism. Who knew in this day and age the twain could still meet.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:49 am
That Sony TV makes my new 42″ plasma seem so puny in comparison, I just might cry.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:52 am
I did cry. And I was looking for a picture of the actual TV we’re going to watch to put it in room-eating context, but all Kate has in her gallery is tons and tons of pictures of the little human being she recently pushed out of her womb, and none of the new TV. I just don’t understand it. I mean, new life, big fat hairy deal, we’re talking life-sized HD pictures here! Priorities!
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 am
OK. So. Here is a brief moment of real honesty: politics to me is like math. I don’t like it and I don’t get it. So I rely/need fine people like yourself to help me clear through the mush. So thanks. I mean it. You’re special.
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
You’re right, politics IS like math, very high-level math. Laws and amendments multiply all the time. Ideologues divide. Budget specialists add and subtract. When two nonparallel vectors interact you can use the screw rule to get your result. Integration seems to straightforward but often relies on tables of solutions you’ve tried before. And the Democratic party is like a set of orthogonal vectors that can be, but often aren’t, combined to reach any point in their domain.
But mostly it’s about the screw rule.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Orthogonal vectors.
Jesus, Shelby. Stop mathing me.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Screwing pages, maybe.