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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Musings on Giuliani and the Lunatic Fringe

I thought you might like to read my latest email in a chain with an independent reader from NYC who likes Giuliani:

I've always been an independent myself and I appreciate your realization that Bush has been an incompetent abomination. However, on the Guiliani side of things, I grant you that he did good things as mayor and it was nice to have him around for 9/11. However, he has proven himself over the years to be a 200% Bush/Rove-style culture war nutjob.

If you grant that Bush was a phenomenal disaster, you have to ask yourself: 'Why?'. Bush is obviously a man of marginal intelligence and enormous suggestibility. He surrounded himself with right-wing religious fanatics and stratospherically incompetent neoconservative ideologues. Bush had something to do with the disaster of the last 8 years but, really, in the final analysis, it was the people who surrounded him and the ideology they got him to go along with that created the mess we're in.

What does it then tell you that people like Romney, Giuliani and McCain have taken up all of the same lying, craven, lunatic characters from the Bush administration to craft their campaigns and worldview? If it was bad for Bush, it would be doubly bad for someone with half a brain and a more extreme version of the same ideology to be elected on the same lunatic fringe platform.

Posted by Metavirus at 9/04/2008 11:18:00 AM 2 comments  

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Monday, July 14, 2008

A Reader on Carly Fiorina

A reader emailed me the following in response to my posts on the repellent McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina. Apparently there are depths to her continued pollution of America that I hadn't explored.

Your assessment of Ms. Fiorina's appearance on Meet the Press didn't go far enough to expose her for the fake she is. If she said the words, "I'm a business person" or "as a business person" one more time to somehow set herself apart from politicians I would have thrown something at the TV. What a fraud. She was never a numbers person. Not ever. Your excellent 10 points didn't even hit on her days at Lucent. There are tens of thousands of people who used to work at Lucent and HP who would form a powerful block of voters who would NEVER vote for any ticket she is a part of. Interview some past employees who worked for her. She's ALL style and NO substance. She is one of the CEOs that personally and professionally thrived on the backs of so many 'displaced' workers'. She's an originator of the spin culture she now so comfortably promotes. Tom Brokaw caught her in her baseline hypocrisy - stating surrogates shouldn't be listened to....ick. I felt like I needed to take a shower after listening to her bs her way through that interview. She is ruthless, self-aggrandizing and self-promoting. The truth is irrelevant to her. Please keep up the pressure to expose her for what she is.

Thank you.

Posted by Metavirus at 7/14/2008 03:35:00 PM 0 comments  

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