Friday, August 15, 2008

Smear politics 2008

Well in case you didn't notice yet it's an election year. You can tell because the smear books and party-purchased authors are selling millions of books based on BS. They call them factual and informative, but all they really do is spout off innuendo and party propaganda to a generation of ditto-heads that believe anything they are told first or the loudest. The latest is a smear book by the same guy who co-authored the book a few years ago about John Kerry's war record. You may remember the "swift boat veterans for peace" who were for the truth even if they had to make it up themselves.

Now I'm not going to name the author or his books in this post because he is not going to get any help from me, and neither are his ridiculous novels. That being said he writes for a website called worlddaily.net (I'm not going to link to them either); in my opinion it's just a conservative trash disposal posing as a political website. The author has a PHD in political science from Harvard but seems to have trouble discerning fact from utter nonsense, and has the same affliction bothering so many right wing talk radio and TV hosts. The affliction I refer to is what I like to call "Anti-social, Homophobic, overt or Latent Syndrome" or "ASHOLS" for short. This disease affects Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and nearly everyone working at Fox News, and will most likely be considered an epidemic by the CDC very soon. For brevity's sake I will hence forth call these people "ASHOLS".

These "ASHOLS" have been a thorn in my side since GW's first election and continue to get my Ire up every time they speak, post, or write. These "ASHOLS" must be stopped at all costs or our society will be forced to conform to the conservative mindset or perish. If we continue to tolerate their brand of social-political repression the intelligence levels across the country will drop until we all talk like GW. "Bushim's" will replace properly formed sentences, and truth will be reduced to what we hear on Fox News.

This is why I am forming a group dedicated to the abolition of these fear and hate mongering snake oil salesman in $10,000 dollar suits. The group will be called the "Anti-ASHOLS Society" or A-ASHOLSS for short. So get ready and practice your acronyms and abbreviations while I get the ball rolling on this. I'll get back soon and let you know my progress. A-ASHOLSS unite!

Friday, August 1, 2008

Obama, McCain, Paris Hilton and the race card?

Did anyone else see the McCain campaign commercial that compares Senator Obama to Paris Hilton? Wow, I didn't know he was that big yet. I don't think anyone in McCain's camp really understands the way publicity works in this country. If you call someone a rock star or celebrity on TV then the next thing you know they are one. OK let me get this straight; he is too popular to be president? Or is he so busy being popular he isn't trying to be president? Well then exactly what are you doing with your commercial? Isn't that John McCain's face and name plastered all over the screen?

The presidential election is a popularity contest in the truest sense, no matter how you look at it. Who wins? The guy who gets the most votes, come Election Day. How do they get the most votes? By making themselves popular. Paint it with any brush you want, it is as much a popularity contest as it is anything else. Millions of dollars are spent on TV ads by both sides and one has the nerve to call the other a prima donna? Sorry but neither of you should say anything about the other where this is concerned.

As if this nonsense were not enough, McCain's camp claimed Obama was playing the "race card" after he said the Republicans would try and scare voters away from voting for him, because his face didn't look like the ones on the dollar bills. All I can say to this is; if he wasn't playing it with his remark, he will now because you threw it in there. You know how to spot the racist in a crowded room? He's the first one to mention race either positively or negatively. There are two kinds of racists in the world; the one who is proud of it and the one who wants to be proud of it. In my opinion John fell right into a trap. They baited it with a slight remark in the hopes he would walk into it and walk right in he did. Now the door is open, and they didn't have to touch the dirty doorknob.

And I thought this election would be boring.