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This is a fascist coup, plain and simple.
how can they do so without actually explaining to the nation who's to blame for the current lack of employment, and the decline in living standards of the middle class over the last decades?
Where is Obama's short and sweet moral tale about what's gone wrong, why romney is with those who made it go wrong, and how he, obama and the democrats are going to fix it?
Wisconsin was lost because democrats had no message. "recall, he tried to bust unions" isn't a message. A message is a short moral narrative containing blame, a villain, and a hero. Obama's constant talking of "they drove the car into a ditch" then "let's be bipartisan" then "we want to regulate wall. st., but let me put wall st. in key spots of power" then "here's my last jobs program, it's modest and small," none of that does the job. He couldn't even be bothered to go to Wisconsin and explain how unions, rising wages, help us all. Clinton hit a good note there but this was for about a day. In contrast the GOP has a short and sweet message -- rampant spending is brining down the economy -- they repeat it and link everything to it. The Democrats are just incredibly inept at politics. Pelosi last night? what, suddenly our "plan" is to win then change the constitution about citizens united? That's the plan? What the fuck? The Democrats are clueless in reaction to Wisconsin. The Walker ads blew them away, saying "union mobs led by obama's community organizers tried to intimidate gov. walker." Wow. Enough of that is true, there were crowds in the state house right? Well, where was the Democratic ads saying one percenter banksters were wrecking the economy for us all, both in 2008 and in the last thirty years?
Ask yourself this. What is Obama's PLAN? He's got none.
Here's a sugestion. Let Buch tax cuts expire for top one THIRD of taxpayers and use ALL that money for DIRECT WPA STYLE JOB CREATION my god it's not that hard to train people to pour some fucking concrete and repair every road and paint every bridge is it? to rehire every teacher and cop fired the last 18 months. a plan to create 3 million jobs, now, with Obama doing a FDR type fireside chat, excuse me the biggest internet chat ever, explaining that when we do THAT then every small business ishelped then banks start lending again then the small business owners HIRES MORE PEOPLE and buys more equipment and this leads to PROSPERITY. My god, the democrats want to win this election without any plan vision or message, THAT's the problem.
I know the definitions of both, thanks very much. I also have been paying attention to what's been happening in this country for the past 20 years. If you don't think this is a fascist coup that's because you aren't paying attention.
Please explain how a candidate acquiring enough votes to be legally and democratically elected is illegal.
When you start rolling out the facist/nazi/socialist bullshit, it is just code for rational people to stop listening. Trust me.
You're only off by three orders of magnitude. Try "quarter of a billion".
In his recent campaigns--and maybe even in the earlier ones--Obama's seemed to have been in tough races, but then his opponents have always self-destructed. Remember how tough it was going to be for Obama to get into the Senate against moderate Republican Jack Ryan and into the White House against Common Man War Hero John McCain? Then he ended up walking over Alan Keyes and Sarah Palin.
So what the Obama needs is for the federal government to stop the election fraud that the GOP is perpetrating (Florida, for instance) and to prevent Romney from convince Colin Powell, Cory Booker, or Michelle Obama to be his running mate.
Good to know Mitt is a regular workaday fella like the rest of us, right? Right...?
For example, according to the NY Times, as of the end of March Obama had raised just short of $197 mm to Romney's comparatively paltry $87.5 mm. Deducting the amount each candidate had spent up to that point, Obama had $104 mm still in the bank to Romney's $10 mm.
And according to Opensecrets.org Obama had $115 mm cash on-hand at the end of April to Romney's $9 mm.
The point being that, while the May numbers might look somewhat dire, Obama, despite rather significant campaign expenditures over the past several months, still has a massive cash-lead over Romney, who has had to spend most of what he's taken in just battling fellow Republicans for the nomination. Presumably, some of that spending will slow down until Convention Season, but he's still got a long way to go before he catches up with Obama's significantly larger cash-reserves.
(Fully understanding of course that this isn't taking into account the obscene amounts of PAC money being contributed to both sides.)
A 16 million dollar difference for just one month, when Obama is already grossly ahead money wise, is not a reason to panic, nor does one data point a trend make.
It is all going to come down to the unemployment rate at the time of the election, and how much of the youth/minority vote Obama can inspire to make it to the polls.
If the youth votes, Romney will lose. If the minorities vote, Romney will lose.
No need for that. "Ignorant" will suffice.
You've just explained the sudden confounding proliferation of all these enraged "left wing" opinionators who delight in encouraging idealistic youth to cast protest votes for third parties in the presidential election and instead pin all their hopes for reform on street protests.
How much of this just gets spent on jet fuel?
How many votes are really in play this election? Would spending $500M win more votes than just $450M? With the SuperPAC factor, do the candidates really even need to have their own massive campaign war chests?
I guess it's common when confronted with an uncomfortable truth to retreat into the land of denial. It's pretty stupid to paint what I said with the "fascist/nazi/socialist" brush, because I didn't say that at all, and I agree that normally when that kind of claim is asserted the person doing so is a knucklehead.
The U.S. has been slipping into fascism for decades now, only it's not the Nazi brand of fascism, but a corporate fascism. Bertram Gross labeled it "friendly fascism", in a book of the same title written in 1980, and it's fascism in the sense that it's a close collusion between the state and private enterprise. In the Nazi strain of fascism, the state owned the means of production, but in this new strain of fascism the state and corporate entities collude to control the levers of power.
It's a coup because it's a seizure of power through extra-democratic means. Nobody voted for corporate dominance of our country - it's only happened because we have a population that doesn't participate (for the most part) in our democracy, so only the extremes show up to vote, and typically those extremes are brainwashed by corporate media mouthpieces into voting how they're told.
It would be nice if you were right and this was nothing any of us had to worry about, but you are wrong, and it's the middle-of-the-road "reasonable" people like you who are helping to grease the chute for our society's rapid decline.
You're not very bright.
I suggest reading something other than indie rock articles.
Let me rephrase that: you might be a smart person, but your lack of awareness of what's been happening to our political system doesn't speak well of you.
Our government has been completely co-opted by wealthy corporate interests. I don't know what to say beyond that, other than to tell you to read some of the muckraking by Matt Taibbi about the ownership of our government by robber barons.
HelpMeJebus, 6/7/12, 3:12 PM:
"It's pretty stupid to paint what I said with the "fascist/nazi/socialist" brush, because I didn't say that at all"
HelpMeJebus, 6/7/12, 8:37 PM:
"This is a fascist coup, plain and simple."
HelpMeJebus, 6/7/12, 9:05 PM:
"I also have been paying attention to what's been happening in this country for the past 20 years. If you don't think this is a fascist coup that's because you aren't paying attention."
...oh wait, I can think of dozens.
Me, I'll be writing in the rotting corpse of Gus Hall, and then praying for the zombie apocalypse so that he can actually take office, hopefully while gnawing on Rupert Murdoch's spleen.