Reply #28: "...American Idol political fan clubs" is exactly right. [View All]

[Joe Fields]

It makes me sick to see so many "enlightened" people, "progressives" fall for the same bullshit spewed by candidates and media time and again. There is a reason that Obama uses the word "change" in his speech 37 times. It sticks in people's minds. They can't see past the image of the man. And Hillary? We don't even need to go there, after the democratic leadership pulled out all the stops and called in all of their favors to put a stop to the Obama juggernaut in N.H. But so many people become emotionally attatched to a candidate, ignoring huge flaws, such as voting for war resolutions, sponsoring war resolutions, voting for Patriot Acts, not once, but twice, and keeping mum on impeachment, in order to advance their blind ambition. Those actions matter. They matter a lot when assessing a candidate's merit to become our next commander-in-chief. Talk is cheap, and actions always trump words. A lot of people talk pretty, but it is usually just a lot of gas escaping from always open pie holes. THEN, as you mention, all one has to do is look around and see what assholes are advising these candidates and coordinating their campaigns. It's almost always the usual gang of suspects.

And if it is this way on the progressive side, it's absolutely no wonder that the rest of the country is so clueless. People, like my sister, who is a very good person, and has always voted democratic, but hasn't a clue. Try as I may to enlighten her, she refuses to listen because the truth is just too damned depressing, and it would upset her whole world. The majority of Americans fall into that category.

That is exactly why a candidate like Dennis Kucinich never has a snowball's chance. An honest man cannot win in today's political climate. They don't get the political backing, the slick organization or the donations to make a real race of it.