News and Politics | July 30, 2008 | 7 comments

And if Obama loses...What Then, Medialand?

source: http://gawker.com/5030554/and-if-obama-loses-what-then-medialand

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Political thinking, wrote Orwell, suffers from a universal problem. “People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” You’d think by now that sentence would be printed and tacked above every editorial desk in every newspaper bureau around the world. Yet who hasn’t read recently that Barack Obama is already the next president of the United States? Even where this presumption isn’t stated outright, it’s implied with enough moonbeams-and-gillyflowers sentimentality (halos if you’re Rolling Stone) that every guilty hack in the country must have laughed hardest at last week’s Onion headline: “'Time' Publishes Definitive Obama Puff Piece.” (“When the American people cast their vote in November,” remarked the only slightly exaggerated version of editor Richard Stengel, “this is the piece of fluff they're going to remember.”)

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7 comments // And if Obama loses...What Then, Medialand?

  • MissP84
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      MissP84  

    • I don't have anything against Obama, but I think I would feel a bit more comfortable with him as a candidate if he had strategic plans for implementing all of the changes that he and most of America deem necessary. I know that something needs to be done for America's healthcare, employment--or lack thereof--mortgage crisis, et al, but I just want to know how he plans to do it.

    • 3 years ago
  • Tgarius
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      Tgarius  

    • Argggggg, the good news is that the Clintons will not be running, after watching the interviews with Obama this last weekend on CSPAN it sounds like he is sliding to the middle more and more, there may not be room for both Obama and McCain in the middle.

    • 3 years ago
  • GavinTheMother
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      GavinTheMother  

    • It has already been decided. The powers that be need to have someone acceptable to the general public and pretend that the problems with GWB are all over. McCain is going to lose because he mirrors too many Bush policies. The guy is ancient and can't even use a computer. People may question whether Obama can lead and it is a valid question, but we already know McCain can't. This is a one man election.

      PS Hillary was a horrible candidate. Only die-hard liberal Dems would ever vote for her. Obama owns the swing vote.

    • 3 years ago
  • rightbrain
  • MissP84
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      MissP84  

    • We will just have to wait and see what happens on the 6th.

      *Furrows her brow while asking herself was the artist trying to depict Obama as...Jesus?

    • 3 years ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  

    • After eight years of dealing with the intolerant group think of neocons, now I'm supposed to support the intolerant group think of Obama groupies?

    • 3 years ago
  • Tgarius
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