So McCain is leading the polls and some people want to make you think the Democratic National Convention will be a failure for Obama ?
What's happening now is pure 2004 Redux : Steve "The Infratect" Schmidt and Co. are using the same strategy as they did when they served "Turd Blossom" and his protege.
The key ? attacking the opponent on his strongest points :
- Kerry was a war hero and Bush-Cheney coward dodgers / AWOL ? Let's swiftboat him and forge a tale to destroy the myth.
- Kerry was denouncing the fallacious, simplistic and pro-war propaganda ? Let's caricature him as a pompous professor and an un-American weasel sold to the French.
Here's today's sales pitch :
- Obama is a young and charismatic leader drawing crowds and McCain a boring white haired dude drawing yawns ? Let's caricature him as a dull celeb pretending to be Moses.
- Obama is the most favored candidate and the most likely to bring together people from all horizons ? Let's tell stories about doubts within his own camp and let's mock at his aura of inevitability.
- Obama tries to restore the values that made America respected by proposing more balanced views on a World that needs to abandon the us-vs-them, black-vs-white Bush rethorics ? Let's laugh at his complex sentences and let's train McCain as a Dubya look-alike down to the monosyllabic brawl.
I'm sick and tired of repeating the same mantra for over 5 years but damnit, it's high time to wake up, America. It's time to turn your back to those who want to destroy your country, to get rid of the Bushes, Cheneys and Roves (and of the pityful me-too nobody who used to be John McCain), and to vote for the good of your country, and for the good of the world.
Yes, you can and yes, you should vote Obama.
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What's sad is that low-class rhetorics like those proved to be perfectly efficient. What's even more sad is that it proves true the saying that democracy is the dictatorship of the largest number of morons.
ReplyDeleteWhen Churchill was asked what he thought of the French Revolution, he answered : "too soon to tell". Well, two centuries and the mass media after that Revolution, democracy does not look so bright.
Montesquieu told us that education was necessary to the Republic, and he was perfectly right. But when education boils down to mass communication, you can just as well kiss democracy goodbye... Hello mediacracy! How are we going to scare Mr & Mrs Smith today, and take away their civil rights with their blessing ?