MCCAIN’s TARGET AUDIENCE CHOOSES TO REMAIN IN A CLOSED SYSTEM WHILE SEEKING SOLICE BY INDULGENCE IN FALSE COMFORTS FOUND IN THE EFFORTLESS ROUTES OF UBIQUITOUS CONSUMER MENTALITIES, ADDICTIVE PREOCUPATIONS WITH (UN)REALITY SHOWS, VIDEO GAMES, SHALLOW CELEBRITYHOOD, AND THE SELF-SEALING UNIVERSE OF ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT (OBSESSIVE SPORTS AND FASHIONS NOT WITHSTANDING). THESE ARE THE DRUGS OF CHOICE FOR DROPPING OUT.
SUCH SECONDARY REALITIES PROVIDE AN INSTANT, MANUFACTURED IDENTITY, A SWIFT AND SENSATIONAL ESCAPE FROM THE OVERWHELMING PRIMARY REALITIES WHICH THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND CANNOT MANAGE. DOING THAT WOULD REQUIRE NEW LEARNING, SELF-REFLECTION, OWNERSHIP OF THEIR IGNORANCE, VISION, AND OPENNESS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS AND WAYS OF BEING. TO BE SURE, THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN PROCLIVITY; MUCH OF AMERICA IS OPTING OUT OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT BY VARYING DEGREES THROUGH SUCH PALLATIVES. BUT THIS ROUTE IS DECIDEDLY RICHER IN THE CONSERVATIVE GROUPS WHICH MCCAIN’S STRATEGISTS HAVE TARGETED. IT IS THE INVENTIVE SNARE THEY HAVE DEVISED FOR GAINING SUPPORT FOR HIS CANDIDACY.
BY CREATING PALIN AS A POPULAR CULTURE ICON STRATIGISTS KNOW SHE WILL BE ARDENTLY EMBRACED: SHE REPRESENTS THE SUCCESSFUL AND TRIUMPHANT “THEM” AND SERVES AS THE CELEBRITY HERO WHO WILL SANCTIFY THEIR INSULARITY, SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS, AND RETURN THEM WHOLE AND PROPEROUS TO A SIMPLIER TIME. THEIR APPLAUSE IS NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR NATIONAL OFFICE IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES; IT IS ABOUT SHORING UP THEIR FRAGILE IDENTITY!
And what better way to cement that celebrity than by having a wedding? No wonder the distracted Mom couldn't think when she spoke with Katie - so much on her mind. Who can't relate to that?
Posts
11 comments:
I think this pegs their strategy right on. The question: will it work?
We can only hope that Thursday night will be a reckoning and a little bit of reality will come crashing in as 50+ million people watch and decide if they feel safe with her 1 HBAFTP (= one hearbeat away from . . . )
It also helps that her unfavor rating now is 10 points below her favor rating.
If Obama's people were smart this is the ad they'd run.
Voice over, "This is Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate."
Run a clip from the Couric issue - probalby the one about Putin's head.
When it finishes the narrator asks -
Do you really want this person one heartbeat away from the Presidency?
End.
New strategy from McCain: free Palin to be Palin, the combative conservative.
Apparently they have realized that she doesn't do well when trying to give the answers drilled into her. She does much better when speaking freely, even though she may reveal how uninformed she is.
It's a lose-lose situation. Either she sounds confused and canned or she sounds woefully unprepared.
They know she can't win the debate on substance, so they're going for style and banking that her freewheeling, combative style will appeal to working class voters.
They can't win both those who think and those who don't think; they're opting for the latter.
i saw a clip with Sarah Palin saying she's been hearing about Joe Biden since she was in the second grade. Does Sarah Palin really want to raise the age issue????
Also, OMG, I do my banking at Wachovia. We're going to hell in a hand basket, especially after 8 yrs of Bush. I knew it would be bad, in 2000, if Bush were elected, but I could not imagine how bad. HELP!!!!!! Maybe help is on the way with Obama, but GW Bush has spent all the money, so . . .
Ed, as I understand it, if you just do banking with Wachovia, you're fine because you've insured by FDIC.
If you have stock in Wachovia, that might be a different thing.
What I heard is if you have more than $100,000 with Wachovia you could be in trouble.
But since I'll never have that much to worry about, I can sit back and sip a pina colada.
It's true, I belive, that $100,000 is the amount that FDIC insurance covers for any one account in federal banks.
Most people therefore prudently do not have more than that in any one account.
No, the FDIC insures the aggregate of your qualified accounts in one bank up to $100,000. So, if you have a savings account, checking account, and CDs with ONE BANK that all add up to less than $100,000, you are ok. FDIC insures by the bank, not the account. Some accounts are not qualified (stock-based accounts), so are not included.
Thanks for the clarification. Never having come anywhere near that aggregate amount, I hadn't bothered with the details.
So, if you had more than $100,000 you wanted to keep in banks, you could spread it around in different banks and still be insured?
Yes, you should spread it around in several banks. I've not had enough to worry about it, either. But now, if you want something really scary, go to www.fdic.gov and look under the consumer/communities tab for the Find Bank database. Search for your bank and compare to the "standard peer group". It will list the assets and liabilities of your bank compared to a set of similar institutions. Then look at the derivatives (at the bottom of the list). The amount that my bank had was scary. I don't know exactly what are included in this category, but the way everyone is throwing around the word, I assume that a large portion is the mortgage securities.
Post a Comment