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  • Oil is ammunition

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    Posted on July 4th, 2008sherryCurrent Events, General

    My husband was doing some work up in the attic when he came across this WWII vintage advertising card. I leave it to you to find any irony on this Independence Day:

    ESSO card

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    Added: By the way, I’d like to go on record as believing that the mere fact of being a war hero is not necessarily a qualification for the presidency just as the fact of not being such a hero is not a disqualification. I recommend that we all take a little time to read Paul Krugman’s column for the day, Rove’s Third Term. It begins like this:

    Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didnt scream. Hillary Clinton didnt say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didnt impugn John McCains military service.

    Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, titled his tell-all memoir What Happened. But a true account of modern American politics should be titled What Didnt Happen. Again and again weve had media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never actually took place.

    I abhor this practice, call it Swiftboating if you will, and think it should be broadly condemned no matter which candidate it is used in support of. One of the things that appalled me so about the Democratic primary this year is that partisans within the party were not just willing but enthusiastic about just this kind of Rovian attack. As voters we should not tolerate it.

    “Will Rovian tactics work this year?” Mr. Krugman asks. If you ask me, these tactics have already worked. See Melissa McEwan and Maureen McClusky, Destroying Hillary Clinton (and here for part two) in The Guardian.

    A more relevant question might be “Will Rovian tactics continue to work this year?”

    Mr. Krugman thinks the press is a little ashamed of themselves over their attacks on Clark. I sure hope so. I sure hope they’re a lot ashamed.

    What was it George W. Bush said?

    Fool me once … can’t get fooled again?????

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3 Responses to “Oil is ammunition”

  1. The campaign for president this years, seems to me, is a competition between two Rove disciples. Actually, I see more day light between McCain and Rove than I see between Obama and Rove. The latter is a more talented student of the art of hate and lie.

    (I am going to vote to neither of them.)

  2. Oh I’m going to vote. I may carry a quarter to flip in the voting booth, but I’ll vote..
    I’m more interested in the senate race. John Warner is on the ticket. And for Kentuckians, this is an opportunity to get rid of McConnell.

  3. @Max & Koshembos: I don’t mean to discourage anybody from voting. It’s still the only tool we have, and there’s still Cynthia McKinney, who is both a woman and an African-American and pretty radical. I don’t know that she’ll make the ballot in Kentucky, though.

    Nor do I mean to put blame strictly on the candidates. The media is guilty here, too. They’ve colluded in this game for years.

    And yes, Max, whichever of the two presidential candidates wins, it seems real important to me to increase the Democratic majority in the legislative branch. I’d consider any election a liberal victory that gets rid of Mitch McConnell. Though I’m not too optimistic.

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