Barack Obama is Full of Shit?
Even if the mighty Matt Taibbi is wrong about America's hybrid savior, it's still nice to read someone write as if they don't give a shit what the power structure thinks. That he tends to be right more or less all the time doesn't hurt a bit. Plus, why would you read other journos when gonzo journos make reading not only informative but fun? Let's not kid ourselves: Journalism has never served the people, and it was never designed to. All the paper and TV news magnates were extreme capitalists of a different variety, and their history of lies and manipulations are long and well-documented. Hungry for the true-school journalism of yesterday? Pick up a newspaper from the '30s, '40s or '50s sometime, and try to get past the smoking ads featuring doctors, just to start. Anyway, here's Matt on Obama:
"My usual instinct when presented with this type of Zelig-esque, Eddie Haskell, non-stick personality is to violently reject it. But over the course of the last few weeks I've found myself increasingly amused by the Obama phenomenon. For one thing, he clearly pisses off Hillary to no end. Same with Biden and all of those other windbag jerk-off assholes in that revolting "national security Democrats" clan in the Senate. There is something subtly racist (in Biden's case, not so subtle) in the way these more entrenched Democrats are riding Obama's lack of credentials and acting like the '08 nomination is their birthright, like he hasn't "waited his turn" or something, paid his dues. As if any of these clowns would wait ten seconds to declare for the White House if they had the same odds that Obama has now. I have no idea who Obama really is, but he is against the war now (and at least never voted for it) and he seems to infuriate the right people. He has people bitching now that he's not black enough, and there are obviously going to be plenty of people for whom he's too black. And both of those groups of people, frankly, deserve whatever's coming to them. So for the time being I'm going to enjoy his rise to the top, the same way I enjoyed reading The Red and The Black -- like another great phony, Julien Sorel, Obama is a perfect mirror of the society he was born to conquer, and his journey upward throws everyone he passes into stark, humorous relief..." MORE
Now, don't get your voter motor revved up about this. Compared to the tools Taibbi describes above, Obama is a wet dream. Compared to them. Compared to reality? He's another middle-of-the-road politician happy to sit around and craft non-binding resolutions all day. Great. Just what we need. Same as it ever was.
2 Comments:
if we leave iraq as all the cowardly democrats seem to suggest the cost of winning will seem
small if that country falls under the control of iran.
what happened to the democratic congress getting elected to lower oil prices by planting a few cactus.
all they have done is raise the price of food with their ethanol
debacle.
we have had troops in europe for
65 years, korea for 55 years.
of course young democrats don't study history
no one mentions the fact that we already had 60,000 troops keeping saddam to his word "before
the present war". No one calculates
that in the cost column.
democrats are those that want the rest of us to carry their load.
im quite tired of it like most americans
nelson
Just a few words on barack obama. GOD HELP THIS COUNTRY! I know the malato won't.
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