[168348] in Zephyr_Bugs
Wading Through Political Excrement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Rivers Pitt, Truthout)
Sun Aug 26 13:27:06 2012
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:26:33 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | If you have the stomach for it, there will be quite a spectacle on display in Tampa Bay starting this week. The Republican Party, fresh off a week-long public debate about whether rape is real or just a tricky dodge women use to obtain a legal abortion, will coronate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as their standard-bearers for the 2012 presidential election. The lies will be thick, the gibberish will be constant, and if history is any guide, the hats will be simply preposterous.
Before the echo from the explosion of nonsense in Tampa Bay fades, the Democrats will put on their own show in Charlotte to renominate President Obama and Vice President Biden. I wouldn't spend a lot of time looking for the Hope/Change theme this time around, however. In its place will be a high-test theatrical presentation of this year's Democratic campaign theme: "We're Not The Other Guys!"
Part of our job at Truthout is to wade through crap like this for you, but make no mistake: coverage is not endorsement. Both parties are snuggled deep in the pockets of very rich people you will never meet. The war in Afghanistan grinds on. Privacy and civil liberties are treated like bad jokes best forgotten. Half-measures and semi-solutions to the problems that face every American are all we see from these people, and that's on a good day. No matter who wins in November, those problems will still be here, growing and festering and threatening to subsume us.
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</center> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have the stomach for it, there will be quite a spectacle on display in Tampa Bay starting this week. The Republican Party, fresh off a week-long public debate about whether rape is real or just a tricky dodge women use to obtain a legal abortion, will coronate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as their standard-bearers for the 2012 presidential election. <b>The lies will be thick, the gibberish will be constant, and if history is any guide, the hats will be simply preposterous.<br />
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Before the echo from the explosion of nonsense in Tampa Bay fades, the Democrats will put on their own show in Charlotte to renominate President Obama and Vice President Biden. I wouldn't spend a lot of time looking for the Hope/Change theme this time around, however. In its place will be a high-test theatrical presentation of this year's Democratic campaign theme: "We're Not The Other Guys!"<br />
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<b>Part of our job at Truthout is to wade through crap like this for you,</b> but make no mistake: coverage is not endorsement. Both parties are snuggled deep in the pockets of very rich people you will never meet. The war in Afghanistan grinds on. Privacy and civil liberties are treated like bad jokes best forgotten. Half-measures and semi-solutions to the problems that face every American are all we see from these people, and that's on a good day. No matter who wins in November, those problems will still be here, growing and festering and threatening to subsume us.<br />
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We can do better. At Truthout, it is our mission to push as hard as we can against this rising tide. We cannot do it without your help. Join us: we must raise <b>$12,500 more by tomorrow night</b><b>.</b> Please make a tax-deductible donation.<br />
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