Bumped -- GH. Originally posted 2008-06-12 21:07:33 -0500.
In Alchemy, there is a principle called "equivalent exchange" that comes into play in many areas of life, including politics.
If you replace an ethically challenged President with another ethically challenged President, and ensure that they are fairly equal (roughly equivalent) in terms of their foreign policy, defense posture, economic planning and technological (in)competence, you aren't really doing much of anything to change the system.
John McCain insists that a McCain Presidency won't be a third Bush term -- that putting him into the highest office on the land isn't going to be an equivalent exchange.
Hat-tip to USArmyParatrooper.
There's no magic here, folks.
- John McCain == George W. Bush == McBush == McSame
This is why John McCain and his right-hand minion man Joe Lieberman have a serious YouTube problem. This is why neither likes reality very much.
This is why, if McCain gets the Presidency, nothing will change. The country will continue on its way to hell in an elephant-shaped handbasket, adorned with a pretty ribbon and note from George W. reading "Smell ya later!"
This is why the GOP must lose both the Presidency and as much of their standing in Congress and in governerships, circuit courts and DA Offices across the land this election season.
They've gotten away with gaming the system for over 8 years. They came dangerously close to a "permanent" Republican majority, which would have permitted their destruction of the nation to continue apace.
This is why we must change the course our nation is on -- because if we don't force change, and a BIG one, then the destruction they've wrought will fester and spread.
Oh, yeah -- this is an Open Thread.
More sourcing, and it just gets better...
Apparently, the original posting of the video (in this recent go-round) was made by the original author, Sam Stein of The Huffington Post (hat-tip to Michiganliberal of DailyKos for the breakdown).
Also to Michiganliberal's credit is this find, a splice by the Jed Report of McCain's words from 2008 mixed in with the video from above, showing the extreme contrast of his hypocritical statements.
Virally Yours
James Rainey/LAT: Mainstream media not jumping on the political rumor bandwagon:
Yep -- the traditional media does deserve a lot of
kudos for not sinking to the level of the Faux News crews.
There ~are~ a lot of good things about the media; they're getting pummeled from all sides, when they do and when they don't do their jobs, but some have remained steadfast.
I'd just love to see more precaution taken to extract the attempts to manipulate the media from the firehose of content, and bit more effort to strain out the frivolous.