Quatro mas mes!

For Obama — Biden helps ease the FISA blow.

Here’s a proud vote for Obama!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6lCBnRoHQ

It’s part of a larger problem and I feel like I’m in a race with the moderator here because I think some of my comments about this have been deleted.

But basically, the convention is not a very newsworthy event because the whole thing is scripted spectacle and designed to have as few suprises as possible. But WBUR and others have spent vast resources in coming to Denver so they have to talk about something; they’ve got to find some interesting attention-getting angle and the Clinton-Obama division is one of the very few genuinely interesting topics at the convention, so as a result it gets amplified or magnified.

Why should they? The Democrats are just as much in the pockets of big corporations as the Republicans. This is not to say that there’s no difference between the two parties – I much preferred the 8 years of Bill Clinton’s presidency to the years that followed.

But let’s be realistic here – the corporation is THE defining institution of our culture. Many Americans have a closer, more frequent relationship with Verizon and Apple and McDonalds and Microsoft than they do with their own families. The main events of the Democratic convention will be held at the Pepsi Center and Invesco field. The whole topic of corporations in our national life and and personal lives is WAY bigger than we can discuss here. On Point could easily devote a week to discussing the role of corporations in everything from politics to language to art to family relations to foreign policy to the environment.

As long as it’s satin from fair-traded, renewable resources such as organically-fed silkworms, and not polyester from imported oil, then I don’t see the problem with Obama getting his funding from the textile industry.

One of many sad things about the divisions that Clinton has engendered is that those divisions do not reflect deep policy differences. As far and I can tell, Hillary was fighting to the bitter end for Hillary

The fact that we’re discussing this so long after the primaries shows how much damage the Clintonistas have done. The fact is that if Obama loses this will become part of the political legacy of the Clintons (both Bill and Hillary). It’s not too late for them to decide which is more important: their egos or the Democratic party. But it’s almost too late.

The media, including WBUR, is responsible for strengthening the polarization between supporters of Obama and Clinton. This is a disservice to the Democratic Pparty and to those of us who see little difference between the two in terms of their ideals or their policies.

Yes, there are some differences but many more similarities. That we are focused on the differences speaks to the larger problem of negative and divisive programing that WBUR has seemingly fallen prey to.

Yes, it did help the Klansmen stay in the ascendant a bit longer (being in charge of the relief money and jobs gives you power) but it set in motion events that led to their losing a lot of power and living to see their kids vote Republican.

If that does not fire up the reticent Hillarians, then I don’t know what will.

I hope Obama wins, but it’s starting to look as if the Republican smear machine is going to convince the general public that the Democrats are in cahoots with satin and are unpatriotic. It’s seems to be working. The American people who by and large seem to me to be to be very uneducated with matters of politics, are always fooled by this BS.