Catch Up
I've decided that rather than a dump I'll just briefly state what I've thought the last few weeks.
--On the Dem convention. I predicted that there would be no unity, and that Barack would get no bounce. There was no unity, though more civility than I'd expected. Hillary's speech was predictable, but far more skillfully written and delivered than I'd imagined. Bill's speech did surprise me, in that the words were so measured and "seemed" so positive. I guess he was content that things were going well enough so that he could "seem" to play ball, I suppose recognizing that nobody would believe him anyway. Together they gave Barack a four or five point bounce.
--Barack's speech, on the other hand, gave him no bounce at all. I had no prediction as to what the speech would contain, only that it would not be effective. That's because he's lost his brand. Only the already damaged can continue to think that he's new.
--On the Repubs: I didn't see Sarah coming. What a stunning, marvelous surprise. This is an elemental force, it's the force of the authentic. As long as she can hold up, she's a mirror to the lie of The Obama, and of the whole Democrat party. These last four years have been fantasy. All the opposition to the war, the nut stuff about Global Warming --everything-- has been the creation of a dream. But now there's a genuine woman --the VP!-- who's new and inexperienced yet more competent than the Democrat nominee. That's so sudden and unexpected that it may be the snap of the finger that ends the whole trance. Every Liberal position is illusion, opposition simply to discredit so that they might gain power. The creation of such a vast lie is vastly unwholesome. It may end. Snap.
--On Russia I've said that their invasion of Georgia is their new Afghanistan. I think that's holding true, though the method of war is going to be far more sophisticated than I'd thought.
Okay, this is brief enough. I do have my emails if I ever do need details.
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10:30 AM
Tried to send this to Krauthammer but it won't go through. Doesn't matter, he'll get 10,000 similar emails. He argues that Palin can only succeed if she becomes another Obama, if she becomes a personality that deceives the public that she's ready to be president. Charles is really hung up on that ready-to-be-president bit. But that's not her function. She's clearly not ready. Her function is to make it unavoidably clear that Obama, the head of the Democrat ticket, is not ready either.
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Another Abusive Email
Dear Mr. Krauthammer,
You make this statement of Obama: "The sheer elegance, intelligence, and power of his public presence have muted the uneasy feeling about his unreadiness. Palin does not reach Obama’s mesmeric level."
You, my young friend, have been mesmerized. Obama does not have elegance, intelligence, or a powerful public presence. He's a stuttering, stumbling dolt, and comes across as such to anybody not already in a media induced trance. Palin's function is not to become Obama, but to be absolutely not-Obama. She's unready, but authentic; he's unready, but a created messiah. These come and go.
This is how it works: When authenticity meets fraud it's a snap of a finger, the veil falls, the King is naked. The particular nakedness of The Obama is not that he's not ready, that's recognized, it's that he is not intelligent, elegant, or in anyway a powerful public presence. When the trance is broken, he's a schoolboy. Sarah sees that. She's got two months to do her work. It is possible she might be broken by the press, but she certainly won't be fazed by a kid, and the kid she sees is the kid everybody else is going to see soon.
You, however, a normally bright man, are a hard case and do have that glassy stare. It would do you good to get out of Washington. Go shoot a moose.
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Note:
--McCain's acceptance speech may have drawn greater numbers than Obama's;and Palin's speech, all numbers added up, certainly drew more, about 40 million to 38.4. And according to Rasmussen, Palin is now more popular than either Obama or McCain, and McCain is now within two points of Obama in presidential preference, and that's including only one day post-Sarah's acceptance speech in a three day rolling average.
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And, 11:10 AM, crude continues down. $106.11 just now.
--On the Dem convention. I predicted that there would be no unity, and that Barack would get no bounce. There was no unity, though more civility than I'd expected. Hillary's speech was predictable, but far more skillfully written and delivered than I'd imagined. Bill's speech did surprise me, in that the words were so measured and "seemed" so positive. I guess he was content that things were going well enough so that he could "seem" to play ball, I suppose recognizing that nobody would believe him anyway. Together they gave Barack a four or five point bounce.
--Barack's speech, on the other hand, gave him no bounce at all. I had no prediction as to what the speech would contain, only that it would not be effective. That's because he's lost his brand. Only the already damaged can continue to think that he's new.
--On the Repubs: I didn't see Sarah coming. What a stunning, marvelous surprise. This is an elemental force, it's the force of the authentic. As long as she can hold up, she's a mirror to the lie of The Obama, and of the whole Democrat party. These last four years have been fantasy. All the opposition to the war, the nut stuff about Global Warming --everything-- has been the creation of a dream. But now there's a genuine woman --the VP!-- who's new and inexperienced yet more competent than the Democrat nominee. That's so sudden and unexpected that it may be the snap of the finger that ends the whole trance. Every Liberal position is illusion, opposition simply to discredit so that they might gain power. The creation of such a vast lie is vastly unwholesome. It may end. Snap.
--On Russia I've said that their invasion of Georgia is their new Afghanistan. I think that's holding true, though the method of war is going to be far more sophisticated than I'd thought.
Okay, this is brief enough. I do have my emails if I ever do need details.
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10:30 AM
Tried to send this to Krauthammer but it won't go through. Doesn't matter, he'll get 10,000 similar emails. He argues that Palin can only succeed if she becomes another Obama, if she becomes a personality that deceives the public that she's ready to be president. Charles is really hung up on that ready-to-be-president bit. But that's not her function. She's clearly not ready. Her function is to make it unavoidably clear that Obama, the head of the Democrat ticket, is not ready either.
...............
Another Abusive Email
Dear Mr. Krauthammer,
You make this statement of Obama: "The sheer elegance, intelligence, and power of his public presence have muted the uneasy feeling about his unreadiness. Palin does not reach Obama’s mesmeric level."
You, my young friend, have been mesmerized. Obama does not have elegance, intelligence, or a powerful public presence. He's a stuttering, stumbling dolt, and comes across as such to anybody not already in a media induced trance. Palin's function is not to become Obama, but to be absolutely not-Obama. She's unready, but authentic; he's unready, but a created messiah. These come and go.
This is how it works: When authenticity meets fraud it's a snap of a finger, the veil falls, the King is naked. The particular nakedness of The Obama is not that he's not ready, that's recognized, it's that he is not intelligent, elegant, or in anyway a powerful public presence. When the trance is broken, he's a schoolboy. Sarah sees that. She's got two months to do her work. It is possible she might be broken by the press, but she certainly won't be fazed by a kid, and the kid she sees is the kid everybody else is going to see soon.
You, however, a normally bright man, are a hard case and do have that glassy stare. It would do you good to get out of Washington. Go shoot a moose.
------------
Note:
--McCain's acceptance speech may have drawn greater numbers than Obama's;and Palin's speech, all numbers added up, certainly drew more, about 40 million to 38.4. And according to Rasmussen, Palin is now more popular than either Obama or McCain, and McCain is now within two points of Obama in presidential preference, and that's including only one day post-Sarah's acceptance speech in a three day rolling average.
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And, 11:10 AM, crude continues down. $106.11 just now.
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