Asia Times: Outhouse politics

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Outhouse politics
By Julian Delasantellis


The daughter of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Alexandra Pelosi, has recently been making her own name for herself as a skilled video journalist and documentarian. Her most recent production, currently being shown on the Home Box Office cable network, s Right America - Feeling Wronged, her account of the interviews she conducted at John McCain and Sarah Palin rallies during last autumn's presidential election.

These were the people in absolutely no mood to listen to the Barack Obama campaign's argument that the division of America into hostile red and blue camps was artificial. They proudly proclaimed themselves rednecks, by virtue of both the hard, manual work they did in the hot sun all day, and their self-professed ideology. One young man sported a T-shirt with a handwritten message advising voters to "say no to socilism". When informed by Pelosi of the spelling error, he requested a marking pencil to fix it. When further asked for his definition of socialism, he knew where the truth did lie.

"There is a definition. I can look it up really quick. " He turns to his Blackberry, punches a few keys.
"Tell me just in principle," requests Pelosi.

"Umm, OK, well socialism, it's basically like the views of Hitler, it's ... it's the in-between, it's like, between communism, and, ahh I don't know what the other word is, but it's between, it's like, the medium between two views, between communism and another view, but I don't know exactly what that is. " .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KC04Dj03.html

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1. Ignorance

is appalling, but ignorance of the Palin supporters goes beyond that.

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2. LOL. Well done Mr. Delasantellis.

What it makes clearer as time goes on is that our money is fake. It's all fake. They pull it out of their asses. We have "faith-based" money.