On Sep 26, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski 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.
>
> How depressing. Unfortunately, this is indicative of how shitty the
> public discourse in this country has become.
> Wojtek
>
So true, alas.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos