They Just Have to Make it Close Enough to Steal

[babylonsister]

They Just Have to Make it Close Enough to Steal

by clammyc
Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 03:52:49 PM EST


Sure, the media is obsessed with trashing Obama or Clinton, depending on the week or sound byte that can be taken out of context and twisted to insinuate that Democrats hate America or love terrorists or whatever other utter horseshit that they can conjure up to distract from the fact that John McCain is dangerous, or contradictory or just a flat out liar.

But the corporate media as well as McSame himself are just two pieces in a larger puzzle - the one to keep “The Base” happy and wealthy. We can hear lie after hyperbole after projection about how the Democrats are weak or that Hamas wants McCain to lose or that Osama secretly cast his ballot in 2004 for Kerry.

We know that is all nonsense - and that thankfully, many more Americans are waking up to that fact as well. And with a growing number of Americans thinking that the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections were stolen, not to mention the US Attorney purge, the Justice Department’s gaming the system from the inside, illegal redistricting, illegal phone jamming, voter ID laws that serve to suppress likely Democratic voters and FEC Commissioners who have a history of illegal partisan voter suppression, it isn’t like there is ample evidence that republicans steal elections - and that is before you even get to the hanging chads”, questionable SCOTUS decisions and Diebold hacking.

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Even in a country that has as many racist and sexist idiots as this one, Obama or Clinton should kick the crap out of McCain in November, and his lack of inspiration down ticket should result in larger than normal gains for Democrats in Congress, even with the lack of a spine or complicity by too many in the current Congressional Majority. But frankly, none of that matters much if the truth about McCain gets repeated to enough people so that it won’t even be as close as it should be come November.

We know that all McSame has to do is grill up some ribs and the corporate media will treat him with kid gloves.. It will cover up the fact that he either doesn’t know the difference between al Qaeda Sunnis and Iran’s Shiites, or that he is lying about it. It will excuse the hate filled racist or bigoted remarks from those whose endorsement he chased. It will gloss over his very real ties to Charles Keating, while harping on some nonexistant tie between Obama and Rezko, or the nonstory that Whitewater should have been all along. It will talk incessantly about what Michelle Obama or Bill Clinton said while ignoring Cindy McCain’s stealing painkillers from a veterans charity. It will harp on Clinton’s tax return or Obama’s charitable contributions while allowing Cindy McCain to hide her fortune that is funding John’s entire political career.

Oh yeah, very few people actually like John McCain, want to vote for him or want to see him as President.

more...

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/4/27/155249/926

[DJ13]

1. I bet the MSM is worried

They've worked hard for the last 7 weeks to try any smear they could to drive Obama's numbers down, and he still leads Clinton in the national polls.

That signals that the article you quoted is right, people arent listening to the MSM like they used to.

[babylonsister]

2. I hope people are waking up to the fact that the m$m seems to think

it's their job to 'sell' us who to vote for. And I pray it doesn't work. I just spent a weekend w/my m-i-l. She's 'concerned' about Obama, but she despises McCain and both Clintons. So, I tick her off as one who hasn't been swayed.

[Warpy]

3. The only thing that will do that

is another lackluster campaign managed by the DLC, one that packages a good candidate as a pro business drone who will never rock Reagan's boat except to throw more of us who work for a living overboard.

They do that and play to the GOP again instead of their own party, they'll deserve to go down in flames. Unfortunately, the bastards will drag the whole country down with them.

[MethuenProgressive]

4. "steal"

[guyanakoolaid]

5. That would be the Tree of Bullshit Rhetoric, which Hillary herself helped plant

Unfortunately your comic is missing the last two panels where Obama picks himself up and keeps running past Hillary.