Greed and Panic

Greed and Panic
by Brian Morton | August 7, 2008 - 11:35am



Here we are near the end of the long, hot summer, and that odor wafting toward you isn't skunked beer or uncollected trash--it's desperation. You can tell when campaign ads talk about "celebrity" and feature Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, both of whom might be hard-pressed to answer how many years are in a U.S. senator's term (quick--somebody cue Jay Leno's "Jaywalking!").

It was around this time eight years ago when the traveling campaign press seized on the "Who would you rather have a beer with?" test for the presidency. And five years after that, we learned that the winner of the beer test appointed the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency before a hurricane wiped out an American city. We saw how that turned out.

Now we're back in the stink of it again. Barely a month left before the conventions, and the second sentence in a front-page Wall Street Journal article reads, "But in a nation in which 66 percent of the voting-age population is overweight and 32 percent is obese, could Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability?"

As blogger Duncan Black, who writes under the name "Atrios," says, "The stupid, it burns me."

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/16350

For anybody who interested in stupid campaigning about food.

They're trying to make him effeminate..a "girly-man" with words like elite, skinny, it's just a matter of time before they bring up wine and cheese.

They had a speaker at netroots who talked about word association and how it works. I can't find the link though. But I'd like to get that book. We need to do something like that.

could, with straight faces, try to paint a half-black, half-white guy who grew up without a father and who got himself through school with scholarships and loans as an elitist.

I swear to god, this goes way beyond desperate, into a territory that is, as yet, unnamed. And I don't want to know about it.

Obama's granddma was a banker; your bio isn't quite representative either.

did I get wrong?

i could choose: grandma was a banker, private schools, ivy league & give another impression. & to tell the truth, i think mine is nearer the mark than yours.

I'm sure there were poor people in McCain's background, too. That takes nothing away from his own history, just as the points I wrote about Obama were valid.

You're trying to introduce additional information in the futile hope of negating the absolute truth of what I posted. It's unfortunate that you feel the need to do that, but I am sure you have your own good reasons for doing so. That you lost the entire point is irrelevant, but, still, I want you to know that your efforts were charming.

was never poor. neither was obama.

they're both "elites" compared to the majority of americans.

i'm not sure why you feel the need for snark.

America is dumber than a bag of rocks to believe this shit.

glaring way possible, as the people become poorer and poorer, from a base that, from an already low point, thanks to NAFTA, has got dramatically lower from the year 2000.

That is industrial, heavy-duty elitism, grinding the poor down and down and down. And, now, the previously not-so-poor are poor, too. Only the real elite prospers as never before. That is top-quality elitism.