[lbo-talk] race costing Obama about 6 points

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 22 17:20:08 PDT 2008


Fingers in ears, say what you like. I'm campaigning for Obama. Politics as usual is over. Bush II showed us that, Palin confirms it. You don't know what it's like here. For the rest you are wasting your breath.

--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net> wrote:


> From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] race costing Obama about 6 points
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 10:16 AM
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:13:49 -0700 (PDT), andie
> nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I really do not want to hear from the "it makes
> no difference, no lesser
> > of two evils crowd."
>
> That's just asking for it.
>
> Neither McCain nor Obama nor Palin nor Bidden will have any
> more control of
> America Inc than the Revlon Spokesmodel has over Revlon
> Inc, or the
> Playmate of the Month(tm) has over Playboy inc. And
> neither, despite the
> popular allusion, have a button to put a finger on, in fact
> there is no
> button, but rather a very tightly controlled process in
> which the President
> is told what to do.
>
> If the rich and powerful in America want the
> "button" pushed it will be
> pushed, if they don't, it wont.
>
> The candidates are competing for the job of representing
> government policy
> to the public, not the job of deciding it, the job of
> deciding it is not an
> elected position, but rather is a ruthless, cut-throat,
> back alley,
> no-holds-barred cage match of raw power. Any candidate who
> is not already
> vetted as being willing and able, nay, eager, to serve the
> powerful never
> raises above school trustee, if they make it that far.
>
> The candidates are selling themselves to the power elite,
> what they are
> selling is an ability to gain compliance from the American
> people. What
> they will gain compliance for, exactly, is not up to them,
> but rather
> decided by full-contact conflicts among the rivalrous, and
> internationaly
> involved, power elite. And whatever campaign platforms they
> take or
> promises they make in selling themselves, including policy
> promises, are
> not binding, but rather a screen-test of their ability to
> represent a
> certain policy, and a market research project to help the
> elite understand
> exactly what sort of masses they need compliance from.
>
> The individual candidates and their parties fight just as
> bitterly for the
> job as the mothers of juvenile beauty queens fight for
> their daughter's
> crown, but that the job is quite important to those that
> seek it should not
> lead you to conclude that it makes a difference to anybody
> not involved in
> the contest.
>
> "I do not rule Russia," the czar said. 'Ten
> thousand clerks do.' Personal
> rule died when Charles I laughed his head off.
>
> Democracy is like going to a restaurant with only one thing
> on the menu and
> being given the choice of which waiter serves it to you.
>
> Whether you are willing to know it or not, it makes no
> difference. It's
> spectacularly naive to believe it does.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Dmytri Kleiner
> editing text files since 1981
>
> http://www.telekommunisten.net
>
>
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