On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> Certainly this is a man who knows how to string together cliches.
> This is
> why he is a genius -- he articulates the necessary cliches for
> those who
> want them at their fingertips and tongue tip.
The guy engineered a vicious numbskull's rise from worthless party boy to chief executive of the world bourgeoisie. He's not Ernest Mandel or Adolph Reed, for sure.
> Emptiness, all we get is emptiness. Emptiness from Obama,
> emptiness from
> McCain. Emptiness filling the belly of the young child in the slum
> and
> emptiness filling the brain of every Clintonian. The emptiness of
> no-politics and the emptiness of the nobodaddy of the New York
> Timesman.
> The emptiness of the LBObamarama and the emptiness of the Big O of
> the next
> bimbo eruption. But most of all the emptiness of the eternal limbo of
> election year gossip, gossip, gossip.
So fill the emptiness with some profundity. Your analysis isn't much more substantial than that which you're criticizing.