THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 34, February 6, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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THE NAUSEA FACTOR
By Alan Caruba
THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION PROCESS IN OPERATION: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES & PARTY CONVENTIONS --
POLITICAL RHETORIC & POLITICAL PROPAGANDA -- RIVAL PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS BARAK OBAMA, HILLARY
CLINTON & JOHN MCCAIN, THREE POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS WHO HELPED PUT AMERICA IN ITS PRESENT MESS -- THE
EVENTUAL ARRIVAL OF WISDOM, WHICH WILL TELL US WE HAVE BEEN ARGUING OVER WHICH OF THREE UNPRINCIPLED
POLITICAL RIVALS SHOULD BE ELECTED PRESIDENT & ALLOWED TO DIG THE HOLE DEEPER
FULL STORY:
There always comes a time at some point in the process by which Americans select the next “leader of the free world” that
one experiences the nausea incurred by too much political rhetoric. There is an impolite expression for this, the expression
that begins with the word “bull.”
Depending on one’s age, fortitude, gullibility, gender et cetera, the nausea can set in early or late, but it will arrive and, with
it, what is generally called wisdom. There is that quiet voice in the back of your head that says these are the same people
that put the nation in the mess we’re in and we’re arguing over which one of them should dig the hole deeper.
How much change will either of the three U.S. Senators, Barak Obama, John McCain or Hillary Clinton, bring about, when
they have all been part of the gang that managed to add 55,000 “earmarks” over Bush’s seven years in office that cost
Americans more than $100 billion? When the President sent a $3 trillion dollar budget to Congress this year, not one of the
three Senators rushed to the microphone to suggest that we’re broke. The government keeps itself in business by
borrowing millions every day.
And, guess what? All around the world, bankers and hedge fund gamblers are trying to figure out how much money they
have already lost in the subprime mortgage debacle. One bank in France lost $7 billion because one very low level employee
broke the rules and nobody noticed. That doesn’t put folks in a mood to lend to anyone, including the U.S.A., where the
value of homes is dropping like a stone.
I do not normally pontificate about politics. I am busy enough pointing to the cracks in the dam where public policy failures
in areas like energy, education, or immigration are showing signs of stress and collapse, enough to leave politicians standing
around in Congress asking, “What happened” and not, as usual, having any common sense answers.
That said, it seems to me the wheels are coming off both parties. Forget about the rallies filled with cheering crowds, the
endlessly parsed speeches and answers, or the drama of who won what state, has x-number of delegates, or cried (again).
The voters are so sharply divided that the party leaders must be wondering how their candidate will be nominated without
conventions where television viewers will watch anarchy in the aisles.
The party conventions are likely to be a bloodletting as the “big tent” collapses under the weight of fractious constituencies.
Ultimately, the “super delegates,” party workers, most of whom will vote to protect their jobs, will decide the outcome. And
absolutely no one will be happy.
For now, this onlooker is trying to recover from the nausea of a night of endless blather by people who are supposed to
know what’s happening, but, more often than not, seem as confused as the viewers. As for the polls and the pundits, pay
them no mind.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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