-- Badtux the Confused Penguin
3 days ago
Friday, August 22, 2008
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Well at least Biden didn't say "Thank goodness Obama's hair doesn't smell like Jeri-Curl and he isn't talking Ebonics."
ReplyDeleteIt's a big, wet kiss to the bankmaggots and corpowhores, saying "I've got one of your boys on my team." Like selecting Schumer, only not someone so fucking stupid.
it could have worse - Bayh
ReplyDeleteQuestion: are you related to Sparky from Tom Tomorrow's comic strip?:-)
ReplyDeleteSparky is probably a distant cousin, Jack :-).
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden has been a professional Presidential candidate for the past umpty-ump years and never got any traction. Thus my puzzlement. I just don't see what he brings to the ticket, other than someone who is clean and articulate.
- Badtux the Puzzled Penguin
Here's the executive summary: There was no non-psilocybin-based VP scenario that didn't involve an Old White Guy.
ReplyDeleteThis ticket already has all the change it can handle. It has so much change that it's only even money to win despite the most Democratic-favorable environment in a generation.
The median voter is white, worried, and old -- old enough to remember having seen 'White' and 'Colored' signs not in books but on walls.
I'm proud of the party for nominating Obama -- it's the right thing to do, and the right time to do it.
But I'm not crazy, the party's not crazy, and Obama's not crazy. Just nominating him isn't enough. Hence the Old White Guy. And Old White Guys are a pretty fungible commodity.
Davis X. Machina
I honestly expected Biden to be the nominee, so I can't say I was surprised.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I don't love everything about him, I do appreciate his pithy "Noun...verb...9-11" reference to Giuliani.
I'm just remembering the last time a dude named Joe became the Vice Presidential candidate. It didn't work out too well.
ReplyDeleteThe plagiarism thing and the back-handed racist insult thing (that whole "clean and articulate" flap) argue against Joe Biden. There's no shortage of old white dudes out there, I'm still puzzled -- why Biden?
- Badtux the Puzzled Penguin
It's just rich political monkeys playing their rich political game. I don't expect any improvement after the elections. Or for the next four years for that matter.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe I'm typing this, but I actually think even Hilary would've been a better choice. If you're going to add a centrist war hawk Republican-lite Washington lifer to your campaign, at least add one whom someone might get excited about and vote for. No one has ever been excited about Joe Biden, for any reason.
ReplyDeleteThere's no shortage of old white dudes out there, I'm still puzzled -- why Biden?
ReplyDeleteBecause you ask it again, let me say it again -- Biden is a bone, a large ham bone with lots of chunks of meat still on it, thrown to the money-men. The financiers. TPTB of Wall Street and the corporate world.
I've been spending more time reading econo-blogs than political ones during the past six months. More than ever, I'm convinced that it's money, not partisan political ideals like abortion, guns and skin colour, that are going to determine the fate of the United States. Issues like those are bright shiny objects that can be used to distract the herds of sheeple, when amplified by the corporate media, so they'll stampede in the direction chosen by the money-masters.
Those master-bastards of the universe, to corrupt Tom Wolfe's phrase, don't just give tonnes of money to political parties. They don't just sit on the boards of directors of the companies that own the TV networks, newspapers and radio syndicators. They're the ones who make the decisions about how things go, because they have their fat, greasy fingers on the carotid artery of how the money flows through society.
Especially the maggot bankers at Lehman Bros., Goldman Sachs and a half-dozen other primary-dealer investment banks whose names people have heard of, but that most of us only vaguely understand. Even I only half-glom how the banksters work on the Federal Reserve-Treasury nexus, and I've been studying.
Biden's their guy. He's from the centre of the corpo-universe, the Delaware corporate HQ state (at least it was before Dubai grabbed that honour), and he's a Wall Street insider. He's the Repiglican Mitt Romney, without the polygamy cult. He's a sign to the money playas that "Hey guys, I'm not going to upset your apple cart in some way that might leave you selling apples on the street corner like unemployed stockbrokers had to during the Great Depression. It's safe to let me get elected."
Remember the stories about how after Bill Clinton got elected in 1992 using populist ideas (with a lot of help from Ross Perot, who siphoned off the angry-white-nativist-with-torches-and-pitchforks vote) he had a sit-down with Robert Rubin, and I think it was Henry the Killer Kissinger, who told him how things REALLY worked? Biden accomplishes that with Obama. That's why he's there. All this stuff about "he's an attack dog" and "he has an inspiring personal story" is a distraction from his real role. Follow the money, because the money men tell us where to go.
Whoops -- it was Rubin and Alan Greenscam who visited the Clenis to tell him how the presidency worked, not Henry the Killer. How could I overlook that -- two masters of the financial-political matrix.
ReplyDeleteAnd we're all worried about the mortality figures. He's no spring chicken y'know (almost 66). It's a real concern, eh? Gosh, he's almost as old as old white guy McCain.
ReplyDeleteFWIW: I don't think there is anything revolutionary in changing a candidate's color or height or age. To knock people b/c they are old or white progresses as a society not at all.
I could not possibly be proud of the Democratic party for choosing a bi-racial candidate. I could only be proud if they chose a truly progressive candidate, which they did not do.