Comments on: Black President by Rick Schmidt http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/10/01/black-president-by-rick-schmidt-2/ Picnic Books Sun, 22 May 2011 14:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rick Schmidt http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/10/01/black-president-by-rick-schmidt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Rick Schmidt Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:46:28 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=134#comment-936 Thanks Roger, for reminding me I'm not alone in my fear-factoring of McCain/Palin ticket. When Ronald Reagan was threatening to be elected back in 1980s several friends of mine promised to leave the country if he made it. Hardly anyone really did. But THIS TIME...Three weeks of craziness left to tell the tale!! Thanks Roger, for reminding me I’m not alone in my fear-factoring of McCain/Palin ticket. When Ronald Reagan was threatening to be elected back in 1980s several friends of mine promised to leave the country if he made it. Hardly anyone really did. But THIS TIME…Three weeks of craziness left to tell the tale!!

]]> By: Roger cottrell http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/10/01/black-president-by-rick-schmidt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Roger cottrell Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:19:47 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=134#comment-773 Hi Rick, Very interesting and it has to be said, even a cynic like myself is beginning to really root for Obama against the grim prospect of a McCain-Palin victory delivering a government even more reactionary and incompetent than George W's. Of course, US Imperialism is actually in decline (a bit like Britain at the time of Suez) and it's this which is telescoping freaks of history like Bush, Palin and McCain to the fore. That they can get away with "knobbling elections" represents a triumph of the executive (and thus of parapolitics) over the legislature that is a key characteristic of the coercive state and (sadly) something that we also see in a different form in the UK. Thus while Obama "aint no comrade" an Obama victory is somewhat desirable as a basic defence of democracy - if nothing else. And by the way....Sara Palin really is a reactionary, backward pig in lipstick. I'm NOT running for office and I CAN say it....and I don'ty care about the spin! Hi Rick,
Very interesting and it has to be said, even a cynic like myself is beginning to really root for Obama against the grim prospect of a McCain-Palin victory delivering a government even more reactionary and incompetent than George W’s. Of course, US Imperialism is actually in decline (a bit like Britain at the time of Suez) and it’s this which is telescoping freaks of history like Bush, Palin and McCain to the fore. That they can get away with “knobbling elections” represents a triumph of the executive (and thus of parapolitics) over the legislature that is a key characteristic of the coercive state and (sadly) something that we also see in a different form in the UK.
Thus while Obama “aint no comrade” an Obama victory is somewhat desirable as a basic defence of democracy – if nothing else.

And by the way….Sara Palin really is a reactionary, backward pig in lipstick. I’m NOT running for office and I CAN say it….and I don’ty care about the spin!

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