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Thread #92846 Message #1785570
Posted By: Little Hawk
17-Jul-06 - 11:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Repubicans The Party Of Death
Subject: RE: BS: Repubicans The Party Of Death
The $ySStem decides ahead of time who will win a presidential nomination. Dean never had a hope. They simply had to watch him like a hawk and wait for an opportune moment to find something that would embarass him...then make sure it got played up big on the news over and over again, until it was all people thought of when they heard the name "Howard Dean". And so, you had "the scream", which actually didn't matter at all in any real sense. If it had not been "the scream" it would have been something else. There's always something.
One of our Canadian politicians, Robert Stanfield, had his career rather crippled merely by being photographed one day eating a half-peeled banana! (something that everybody does now and then) He was endlessly made fun of by cartoonists for years afterward, who would depict him with decidedly ape-like features, standing there holding his half-peeled banana. This was perpetrated on a man who was a decent, reasonable, intelligent person.
Another of our Canadian politicians was not very well known when he got nominated and won his party's leadership. His name was Joe Clark. Since he wasn't very well known at the time, some wag christened him "Joe Who?" The name stuck. He was ridiculed as "Joe Who" throughout his entire lengthy career. This again was done to a decent, reasonable, intelligent person.
Neither Joe Clark nor Robert Stanfield were people whom I necessarily would have voted for at any particular juncture...though there is some chance I might have...they were both Conservative Party members. So I'm not pointing this out for leftist partisan reasons. I'm pointing it out because it was unscrupulous treatment of decent men...just like the media "scream" coverage of Dean was.
Politics is a very dirty game...and it's a rigged game. The electorate is primed by the media to vote for the men the $ySSTem wants in office.
Why? Follow the money trail. Lawyers, guns, and money. That's the whole story right there. There IS no real democracy.