John McCain, You Old Fool

Jeff A.

Old-style Washington politics doesn’t work well in the internet age.

One used to be able to hop from town to town and tell the people ANYTHING they wanted to hear. With a lazy, compliant “press” practicing the new brand of “journalism”, they could still get away with it, and pretty much do.

But the internet changes things, inconsistencies are pointed out, speeches are compared, simple little things like those which the press consistently fails to do.

Politics is not the only institution failing us, far more frightening, in my view, the press is circling the drain… These are both necessary and vital institutions in a free society. In fact the politics end of things can’t screw up too badly if the journalism end is doing it’s job — but it’s not.

The internet really did come at exactly the right moment to replace the functionality of moldy old corpse of the press. The press really should be the first thing fixed…

I think we are close to the day when we will start repairing our institutions, I’m a hardened cynic but even I feel some hope at this point. In a way, we can thank Bush and his cronies for making many of our problems so CRYSTAL CLEAR through their ineptness and failure to act on anything domestically — it makes it easy to list all the things that are broken.

KB

Anon, there is no way in hell that McCain “could work” for us. He is so not ready for primetime that he will cling to every fringe group that supports the status quo, including plenty of homophobe reactionaries that will pressure him to become one of the neocons once he gets into office. He is a dangerous, dangerous man. Look how long it took him to denounce Hagee and Parsley…and then claim he didn’t really know what they had said. Not a good sign…