Tuesday 19th of March 2024

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First Woman Picked to Lead Major Party


 

  • Democrats formally nominated Hillary Clinton for president, looking to move beyond the lingering anger that has brought dissension to their convention.
  • In a gesture meant to unite the party, Senator Bernie Sanders asked that his rival be voted in by acclamation.
  • (The New York Times...)

 

the bill and hillary show...

Hillary Clinton officially nominated, Bill Clinton praises wife as a 'natural leader'

Hillary Clinton's husband and former president Bill Clinton calls his wife, the Democratic nominee, "the best darn change-maker I have ever known" on the day she is officially nominated by the Democrats for US presidency.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-27/clinton-official-nominated-as-democratic-candidate/7663880

democracy has fled...

We are witnessing a presidential election of epic farce.  The Republican Party nominates the caricature of a tinpot dictator.  The Democratic National Committee is a caricature too, of comic opera: exposed in collusion with a favored candidate it anoints a felon, shown to be such but unindicted.

We are witnessing the collapse of democratic presidential politics.  It is a derelict process, complex, absurdly long, insanely expensive, tedious, inconsistent and now chaotic. 

Professional football is a public extravaganza, its six-month season culminating in the tangible climax of the Superbowl.  It is dwarfed in spectacle however by the same suspense and dramatic finale of presidential politics—which also displays a sports-fan mentality but lasts three times as long.  The Republican fans and the Democratic fans hold one another in mutual contempt, their shared citizenship and sense of community overcome by righteous dedication to their cherished teams. 

Civil discourse is impossible between the parties, and within them as well.  Trump fans clash violently with Cruz fans, Clinton fans disdain Sanders fans with vehemence.  Reasoned discussion and debate are no more likely than what you'd see at a soccer riot.

No one benefits from the epic farce except the nation's advertising agencies and the mass media, reaping billions in creating and disseminating episode-response campaign advertisements, their span of relevance measured in hours.  Everyone else suffers: the potential candidates tasked with raising and spending the billions and the general public made to endure a year and a half of inane spectacle.

read more: http://ahtribune.com/us/2016-election/1098-banana-republic-of-america.html

 

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