WORLD NEWS TRUST: On The NY Times Assessment Of The Vice-Presidential Debate (John Edminister)

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(World News Trust) -- As it turned out, I listened to some of last night's presidential debate on NPR, and I think this morning's New York Times editorial

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/opinion/03fri1.html

gives a very fair assessment of what I heard. But how dreadful Sarah Palin sounds! How mindless and how insincere! And can you imagine any human soul feeling honored by being referred to as "Soccer Mom" or "Joe Sixpack?" But Biden was a disappointment too. They both infantilized their audience, treating us like children whose only reason for voting would be short-term and unreflective self-interest. I'd like to think that this country's conscience has come too wide awake in the last eight years for that to be appropriate any more, if it ever was.

I've got too much work to do on my desk today to spend much time emoting over this, but if the Biden-Palin debate reflects the prevailing level of public discourse in this country, then this country is doomed. Our system of government, notwithstanding the fact that it has enough money to hire the smartest people, enough power and authority to get practically anybody to do practically anything, and enough technology to spy out all the information it could ever want on everybody and everything, is not fit to deal with the complexities of modern reality. Our body politic is a dinosaur and has to soon become extinct. It's not fit to deal with the complexities of modern reality because it avoids the truth, and in many ways knowingly traffics in lies. I don't know what might replace it, and I'm not optimistic so long as the whole people doesn't wake up, sober up, wholeheartedly renounce "Plan A" and take up "Plan B." But not just a Plan B that takes up a responsible collective stewardship of the earth's bounty, but one that outlaws mutually predatory behavior like disinformation, credit-card loan-sharking and the manufacture of cluster bombs.

I know it'd be too much to hope for to have one or both of the vice-presidential candidates (1) express fear that it wouldn't be a fair election because many voting machines are rigged and hacked (or at least known to be riggable and hackable), unscrupulous Republican County Clerks are hard at work disenfranchising Democrats, and a clandestine machine has already decided (I am told, and I believe it; I'm waiting for the documented news to break) that the official vote-count is to give McCain 51.5 percent of the popular vote and three more electoral votes than Obama. But what about (2) having one of the candidates say that we have a moral obligation to make life better for all classes, not just the middle class, and have to consider the well-being of all creatures on earth, not just the human beings of the United States? (The refusal of Obama and Biden to even mention the lower class makes me not want to even try to register voters in the ghetto, the barrio, the hillbilly town, the migrant workers' housing or the Indian Reservation. Why should they bother?)

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1. I think their messages to america were 'dumbed down' to

compensate for Palin's ignorance and that of her constiuents. Mr. Edminister must not realize that the three class system has disapated over the last eight years. There are only two classes remaining. The top 1% making 5 mil and everybody else. Whom does he think the pubs are blaming for freddie and fannie? Poor people, (the so-called lower class).

As for disenfranchisment and stealing the election, Edminister and I are on the same page and if and when it happens, those same people who are in denial will be the ones who suffer the most. I guarantee it!