Tom Paine 1949
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Well, part of reaching that goal, would be calling media institutions out on their bad behavior, such as the back and forth I describe with McCain.I think it is time that everybody stopped voting on the basis of who this or that mainstream media or talking head opposes ... or supports. Folks think only “the other side” spins the news. It is all mind numbing. Most Americans are, frankly, too lazy and ignorant to clearly and logically tear apart the lies and political prejudices on both sides.
Which I did.
It is worth noting that my support for McCain, such as it was, was completely independent of the idiocy the media was pushing. For whatever weight that holds for you.
Fair enough. I voted for Obama in 2008 because I agreed with his opposition to the Iraq invasion, and I felt McCain was a chronic warmonger. Also I thought Obama would be better able to get us out of the fiscal crisis. I hoped against hope he might afterwards fight the “too big to fail” banks by pushing hard for financial and structural reforms.
It was the first time I voted for a democratic Presidential candidate in decades. But I did admire McCain when he showed some personal integrity and defended Obama as a patriotic American he disagreed with, that time candidate Obama was attacked by some nutty woman at a town hall meeting in typical Trumpster style, as a traitor or Muslim or whatever.
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