"The winds of change are set to blow away the American right"

[Bluebear]

Michael Crowley
Sunday January 6, 2008
The Observer

For several years now, American politics has been in upheaval: terrorism, war, scandal, the meltdown of the Bush administration. But the results of Thursday's Iowa caucuses were the clearest sign yet that something transformative is happening - old orders are being cast away, new faces are surging forward. Iowa suggests that American voters are in a mood to place bets and take risks.

This is terrible news for the major party establishments. That was evident on Thursday night, on a chartered jet from Iowa to New Hampshire in the wee hours after the caucuses. On board was the press corps that follows Hillary Clinton, as well as her aides who worked their way down the aisle furiously spinning the night's disastrous results. With strained faces, the likes of longtime Clinton pollster Mark Penn and former Democratic party chairman Terry McAuliffe talked themselves hoarse over the engines, arguing that Hillary could survive a third-place Iowa finish some people consider a political death sentence....

...America is becoming a fundamentally Democratic country. That may surprise observers startled by the long reign of the Bush administration. But the notion that the Bush era showed the US to be a 'conservative' nation is wrong. And the 2008 election will prove it...

Polls show that Americans have grown suspicious of free trade, support raising taxes on the rich and back government intervention to increase health care coverage. Thanks to the debacle in Iraq, Democrats have even closed a generation-long Republican advantage on the question of who can best handle national security, once one of the Democrats' most debilitating weaknesses.

None of this guarantees that Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or John Edwards will win back the White House. Another 9/11-style event may rescue the Republicans. But the Iowa results suggest that voters are in a revolutionary mood, that they feel their political system has drifted out of tune with their true beliefs. After eight painful and confusing years, those beliefs will likely reaffirm themselves next year in the form of a Democratic President.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/comment/story/0,,2236160,00.html

[villager]

1. "Another 9/11-style event may rescue the Republicans"

Keep your Black Ops detectors quite handy during this election season...

[Hydra]

3. And do what about it?

We still haven't buried the republicans on the issue of 9/11, despite it being at least a LIHOP to their continued political gain.

It might be the most obvious Bushco attack ever, and I bet it still flies. People are just too afraid of the alternatives to fascism.

[villager]

10. well, the fear of the herd is a lot to overcome, I grant you...

We can start by not succumbing, ourselves...

[Swamp Rat]

2. "drifted out of tune" is an understatement.

More like completely out of tune with a lot of broken strings and a warped fretboard.

:kick:

[billbuckhead]

5. Why do you think McCain and Guilian are hanging around?

They're waiting.

[Swamp Rat]

7. They're waiting for Godot.

[bleever]

12. And

without a bridge.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Considering those fuckers stole several elections, they've been out of favor for years.

The media just wouldn't admit it.

[havocmom]

9. We have our winner!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

The citizens of the United States of America have been victimized by the biggest crime in the nation's history, and the GOP/Corporate Media are the perps.

[K Gardner]

6. Leave it to the UK to tell it like it is, god knows our media won't. Thanks for this !

[bluesmail]

8. not if Cheney has any say in it.

[tblue37]

11. Wih or without another 9/11,

we might not be able to overcome the Republican election-rigging expertise. They have honed their cheating skills in many elections, and unlike the democratic ledership, they are always looking ahead and preparing their underhanded tactics for the next election. Meanwhile, our Democratic leaders keep marginalizing those who have incontrovertible evidence of election fraud.