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Palin: it's not going to work...
This year, the smokescreen of fake populist outrage and fake outsider authneticity is not going to fool ordinary, working Americans paying $4.00 a gallon for gas, sending off their sons and daughters to fight in Iraq, struggling to pay off usurious student loans, fending off creditors while battle terminal illness, struggling to keep the house, when the mortgage payments balloons. We're getting over the shock of the meanest girl routine and the fake populism, the ridiculous anti-elitist stance is not going to work this time time around. We need to imagine a better America, a more thoughtful, more just and more hopeful nation. We cannot afford to live with crony capitalism disguised by an "aw shuck" demeanor for another four years. And we won't have to.
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sorry for the typos...I was multitasking...putting my son to bed and blogging...not a good idea...
September 8, 2008 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope you're right. I'm not so optimistic. Demagoguery, unfortunately, seems to work just fine for the Republicans, and we're not so good at it.
September 8, 2008 4:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Second that. Unfortunately.
September 8, 2008 6:36 AM | Reply | Permalink