Sarah Palin praying for that pipeline....
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
WFTV should be called "WTF" TV....
Regarding a moronic Orlando newsanchor's interview with Biden, from a governance graduate student who blogs at Deliberative Dialogue.
"I wouldn’t be worried about creeping Marxism as long as you can own private property. My point here isn’t to try and show off that I know more about political theory than a TV news anchor. Truthfully I haven’t studied Marx in years so I remember only the rough outlines. My point is that you wouldn’t pretend to have a serious understanding of computer programming or mechanical engineering or modern art based on reading a few well-known quotes on the internet. In this context it’s frustrating to see political theory reduced to soundbites and wielded as a dull club for partisan political purposes. Such use suggests that it is fine to abandon any notion that theories or ideas should be understood in their entirely or in context. Indeed, it suggests that any attempt to reach such a level of understanding is somehow either elitist or subversive. And it indicates an environment in which the meaning of words and concepts is irrelevant - reduced to some spin-doctored newspeak - and where dialogue between competing positions is replaced by deformed caricatures of increasing simplicity and extremity."
Barbara West (WFTV, Orlando, FL) Joe Biden Interview
"I wouldn’t be worried about creeping Marxism as long as you can own private property. My point here isn’t to try and show off that I know more about political theory than a TV news anchor. Truthfully I haven’t studied Marx in years so I remember only the rough outlines. My point is that you wouldn’t pretend to have a serious understanding of computer programming or mechanical engineering or modern art based on reading a few well-known quotes on the internet. In this context it’s frustrating to see political theory reduced to soundbites and wielded as a dull club for partisan political purposes. Such use suggests that it is fine to abandon any notion that theories or ideas should be understood in their entirely or in context. Indeed, it suggests that any attempt to reach such a level of understanding is somehow either elitist or subversive. And it indicates an environment in which the meaning of words and concepts is irrelevant - reduced to some spin-doctored newspeak - and where dialogue between competing positions is replaced by deformed caricatures of increasing simplicity and extremity."
Barbara West (WFTV, Orlando, FL) Joe Biden Interview
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Ames Campaigns for Change
The story of my friend Lori, in Texas, and her adorable little boy Ames, and their challenges of affording adequate health coverage on the open market are part of why I am fighting for Obama. Now, with the economy in shambles and that huge new outlay for the Wall Street bailout, it will be even harder for a new administration to find any money for health care reform. But Obama is still by far the better bet to get the economy working again for the middle class :-)
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