I'm finding amazing writing in the most unexpected places including two fantastic articles in Rolling Stone this month. One made me laugh out loud all the way through. Written by a guy my age, it's about why Mitt Romney, despite being the slickest package a president can come in, won't win because he's the energetic captain of a sinking ship. A recent article in The New Yorker about Bush & Co engineering a war against Iran the same way they did against Iraq in 2002, said that Bush and Cheney could "give a rat's ass" about the Republican party and the damage they're doing to it. Keep up the good work boys!
This article about Mitt is really worth reading. Here's an excerpt to whet your appetite:
Yesterday's liberalism is slowly but surely turning into a new generation's conservatism. So when some starched-up, smooth-talking, TV-ready creature like Mitt Romney, who made his fortune laying off factory workers, walks onto college campuses and starts bashing cohabitation and having children out of wedlock, he loses young people who are tired of watching our leaders fuck things up on a grand scale and then turn around and blame our problems on stoned teenagers.
YEAH! That's the kind of guy (the writer) I want to have a drink with. Creature is so my word, by the way, I've been using it for a decade. I've only recently started giving a shit about the presidential race but my opinion (in a nutshell) is that Barack Obama, precisely because he isn't an automaton but a real person, might be the ONLY candidate that can lead this country in the truly new way that the challenges ahead will require. The mere suggestion that we should work WITH Iran instead of bombing the hell out of them like Bush & Co. are hopped up to do, at this point looks like revolutionary thinking.
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