McCain is so unbelievably condescending.
Obama made me wince.
And I cleaned out my SPAM folder.
DC On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com>wrote:
> This thing is still going on, but I am totally fed up with it. What a
> farce - both candidates pandering to the worst prejudices littering the
> Amerikan mind. I did not expect much to begin with, but this was far worse
> than expected. I hoped that Obama could rise above this shit and propose a
> new vision of foreign policy, but instead he went tit for tat with the
> xenophobic warmongering shit spewed by Mac Churian. Mac Churian sounded
> like a reptile spewing venom in a sugary sweet voice, but I am afraid that
> he connected better with the Amerikan people. Obama was unable to transcend
> that and offer something qualitatively different - he was either on the
> defensive or tried to out-Repug the Repugs, but he failed on both counts.
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> How depressing. Unfortunately, this is indicative of how shitty the public
> deiscourse in this country have become.
> Wojtek
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> of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact
> that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending
> any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of
> emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.
> So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost.
> [...] All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious
> and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his
> mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such
> men." - HL Mencken
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