The Ticket That Imploded

The naked truth about the soft machine of the American body politic is that we are incessantly manipulated by invisible forces orchestrated by a conspiracy of strategists with vastly superior intelligences.

In recent months, weeks and days the American people have been programmed by the MSM to anticipate a Democratic presidential ticket that simply defies logic. Theoretically, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will lock themselves together in a strange and troubling political embrace under the time-honored captions, "Opposites attract," and "Politics makes strange bedfellows."

The earliest intimations occurred some time ago in the immediate aftermath of the presidential debate before Super Tuesday moderated by Wolf Blitzer of CNN who boldly mooted the possibility of a dream ticket: a black man and a white woman united together in a quest for the White House. One month later, these titillating intimations escalated to a higher level in the aftermath of the Texas and Ohio primaries.

First, when the question of a dream ticket was broached by CBS's Harry Smith on the Early Show, Hillary Clinton said, "That may be where this is headed." Emboldened by the former First Lady's eager acquiescence to the rather dubious proposal made by a network go-between, the next day ABC's Diane Sawyer repeatedly raised the possibility of the dream ticket in a comic pantomime with James Carville, a long-serving Clinton factotum.

From that point, there was little secret that egged on by the Clinton political family, the MSM wanted what was for all practical purposes an arranged political marriage. The media industry saw this once only conjunction as a surefire formula for astronomical ratings via the big buildup in a premeditated vulgarization of the presidential campaign.

Without missing a beat, the MSM's campaign to infantilize the American public continued its unrelenting onslaught. To satisfy the gargantuan hunger and thirst of the insatiable MSM Leviathan, come hell or high water, the presidency must be leveled to the lowest common denominator - audience share, ratings, sales and advertising revenues. Of course, the beneficiaries of this tawdry carnival would have been the owners and stockholders of the major media, while the two candidates would suffer hideous discomfort in their portrayal of the political odd couple.

The incompatibility of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with race or gender. Their incompatibility is purely and simply political. One represents the politics of change, while the other represents the status quo ante. One has launched an inclusive movement that is bringing new blocs into his column, while the other is projecting her politics of divisiveness by segregating her supporters across a racial fault-line.

Last week, when Clinton described her political appeal as derived from, "working class, white Americans," she invoked the language of the Dixiecrat movement of 1948 when Strom Thurmond led a massive exodus of segregationists away from the presidential campaign of Harry Truman that nearly cost HST the election.

Negotiations for the arranged political marriage hit a feverish pitch on Fox News. The moves were not subtle. On several Fox News programs, experts extolled the appeal of an Obama-Clinton dream ticket. In an interview on Sirius radio, Terry McAuliffe excitedly enthused about the dream ticket.

Swiftly after that episode the dream ticket farcicality escalated to the dowry negotiations and that is where it hit a brick wall. On Fox News Sunday, Howard Wolfson revealed a massive 20 million dollar Clinton campaign debt, but later on the same program Obama's chief advisor, David Axelrod, coldly rejected the possibility of transferring such a massive amount of political dowry from one campaign to another.

In a long and witheringly embarrassing series of overt maneuvers, the Clinton campaign floated their trial balloon for the ticket of their broken dreams. When the public negotiations eventually reached the dowry stage, representatives of Obama balked leaving a jilted bride committed to a shotgun wedding alone at the proverbial altar in her faded wedding dress with the wilting flowers and the stale wedding cake as props adorning a rapidly decaying backdrop fit for Miss Havisham.

In his classic Nova trilogy, William Burroughs warned America about the political abuse of the viral nature of language. In his chillingly accurate prophecy, Burroughs described our culture as defined by mind control via psychic, electronic, viral, subliminal and pharmaceutical agents under the control of a fiendish gang of miscreants, the Nova Mob. Burroughs explained,

The basic nova mechanism is very simple: Always create as many insoluble conflicts as possible and always aggravate existing conflicts -- This is done by dumping life forms with incompatible conditions of existence on the same planet.

Every American knows that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are incompatible partners for a political marriage. While Burroughs defined language as a virus, we can now define the offspring of language, politics, as a virus -- a psychic virus that compels us to fantasize about the impossible while careering headlong aboard an express train towards a terrible explosion in an insoluble conflict leading to what would certainly have become a political nova.

For all concerned, it is just as well that the Obama-Clinton ticket imploded. Whether Hillary Clinton will morph into a political version of the vindictive Miss Havisham remains to be seen.

In a spate of blatant misogyny, the Bible informs us of the "fury" of a scorned woman. Let us hope that Miss Hillary Havisham does not chose to reward our programmed political fantasia with her vengeful presence even though it would thrill the MSM and their shadowy controllers -- the Nova Mob.

Comments

[lennix]

you are so right if the msm has it way we are in big poop its like something out of a movie mind control and murdoch is at the controls it's like the cartoon pinky and the brain when pinky ask the brain
what are we going to do tomorrow and the brain says same thing we do ever day try to take over the world this might be funny but we better look at it hard.

[kusalarhetoric]

Two of two

Poorly motivated are the alternative news sources and bloggers who sell themselves and their stories as the "true" (hence objective) antidote to MSM lies. They also have this culture of non-constructive discontent down pat. Better to take the shards of truth, facts, and organize them either in relationship to those in the vicinity (stream of consciousness), themselves, or a goal they at least feel to be potentially productive. The universalist fallacy is still strongly with this culture.

We seem to be heading in the direction where the 'new' journalism of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson has perhaps the best hope of credibility. Stream of consciousness and inserting your own story into the story. In general, I liked Carmichael's castigation of the main stream media (but Wolf Blitzer . . . bold??!!), and his perspective about how they approach events like the campaign as a ringmaster approaches a circus. It may be that real news is becoming a commodity, like Bloomberg or the Economist, and you have to pay for it.

With regard to BHO and HRM, the time for voting being past, and having been a delegate at a previous convention, I"m perfectly happy to wait until the Party decides, while continuing to organize support for the issues, using the National election to the degree that it furthers those interests. When an organizer gets distracted by the election itself, s/he"s taken his eye off the ball.

[kusalarhetoric]

One of two

One always appreciates a reference to Burroughs. As an expat journalist, I've watched CNN grow more and more -- biased is perhaps too strong a word, but less objective is certainly too weak a phrase -- deliberate in the way they spin stories, and of course they are not alone. Some of the comments here point to a conspiracy to promote one and dis the other. Others point out that the media does not have this much power. The algorithm proposed here, "Always create as many insoluble conflicts as possible and always aggravate existing conflicts " seems to nicely cover the evidence, and also goes far in explaining the "culture of Fear" that I have noticed on visits to the U.S.

To expand this theory a bit, I do not think that the players doing the influencing " various factions and power centers within the government, for example -- quite share this goal of exacerbating conflicts, but they do recognize the efficacy of the methodology. The media realize that maximizing non-constructive discontent translates into viewership/readers, and hence ad revenue. So news sources and the media work hand in glove. But theoretically, they should be open to covering any story from any angle that is sold to them -- as long as it is sold so that it fosters discontent.

[flanardiente]

I wanted Senator Edwards as President, but since he was forced out of the race, I guess I'll have to vote for McCain. Or not vote at all. Does any of that make sense? OK, drop in "Senator Clinton" in place of Edwards. Does THAT make sense?

[GoodbyeKitty]

You are kidding, right? What psychotropic drugs does one need to ingest in order to be able go from Edwards to McCain?

[2LaneIA]

I hope Obama vets and picks a running mate well before the convention, to head off a scenario where he is forced to take Clinton by a vote of the delegates. If the Veep candidate is out there campaigning with him for a few weeks, it will be much harder to get rid of him/her in favor of Her.

[NABNYC]

I don't think Obama's that stupid. If Hillary was on the ticket, I think she would do everything she could to make sure he loses the election. Or, if they won, who could trust her in the white house knowing she wants to run against him in 4 years?

Do we think the Republicans would simply forget, in a joint campaign, that Hillary has repeatedly said people should not vote for Obama because he's black, because he is not as old as she and McCain are, because he's not white, because he's a doo-doo head and so's his wife, and all the other stupid things she and her supporters have said?

Harvey Weinstein was reported by CNN to have called Pelosi and told her that if Hillary is not chosen, he and "his" people will not give any money to any Democrats. It could be that the neocon Democrats will force Hillary in as VP to try to spy on Obama, so they know before anyone else what he intends to do.

Do I trust the Clintons? Not a big.

[popecorvo]

There are minutes to go on this Nova Express, and we're the cut-ups.

[DennyCrane]

There's no question the media is pushing the so-called dream ticket, which is anything but. In fact, the media is why Obama and Clinton emerged as the leading candidates for their party. If the media had done their job from the start, they would've pounced all over Hillary's claim of experience and brought up Jeremiah Wright a lot sooner than they did. But they decided to sit on it so that the two "historic" candidates would come out on top and the "same old white guys" would be forced to drop out. I like Obama and will vote for him, but even I can admit the media helped make it this far. They went easy on him in the beginning and then when he pulled ahead of Hillary, the dug up Reverend Wright to make sure Hillary could make a comeback. The media wanted to see a convention floor fight. But since that's not gonna happen, their next best option is having Hillary on the ticket. Imagine if Obama picks some white guy as his running mate. No big ratings there.

[ddoston10]

What a dumb comment. The media does not have the power to cause people to vote for a candiate. If that were true, Obama would have won TX, OH, PA ... And as far as Reverend Wright, I suspect that it was Clintons who held back the story ... they knew about him long before the media. And the media folks who did raise Wright aka Fox, didn't try to hard to press the issue because everyone was too busy anointing Hillary. So what if some secondary candidate has some crazy reverend ... that's not news. It was only news when Obama was the front runner.

[waiguoren]

Dumb comment, you say.

The media takes in billions of bucks to sell worthless junk to "consumers" (previously "citizens"), yet they have no power to frame politics in a way that favors one candidate over another....Odd.

[moda31]

dan abrams has made it his personal goal to ensure the so called "dream ticket," and he's not alone, there's at least one on every major network spouting the same nonsense, ignoring the million and one reasons why this would be anything but a unity ticket, and one which would spell certain disaster. i'll give people the argument that obama probably has to at least consider extending a faux vp offer, but anybody that actually believes it would be a strong ticket is deluding themselves.

[BlueAsh]

"... we are incessantly manipulated by invisible forces orchestrated by a conspiracy of strategists with vastly superior intelligences." How painfully true!

Except you must leave Wolf out, for he does not belong to any group that can be tagged as "intelligent."

[apoyo]

How can you have a political marriage between someone who wants to bomb and someone who wants to talk?

[Midnightrain]

It may come to an Obama - Clinton ticket, but the MSM is not the sole orchestrater of this incompatible marriage, make no mistake. The public at large is plagued by a much bigger 'virus' than language: it is plagued by unresolved pain surrounding race and gender-based violence and injustice. Please don't cloud the issue, Mr. Carmichael. Please.

[EngineerBill]

This post is awesome! I think it also explains the Kerry-Edwards debacle of 2004 too. Thank G-d the "Nova Mob" failed this time!

[KillTheMessenger]

Where some see a vast conspiracy, I see "dumb and dumber". "Where" is on tv, in newspapers and sometimes on the internet.

[Countess]

Not a day goes by without Blitzer pushing Hillary's neocon dream to bomb Iran. He has always manipulated his show to force this agenda and he loves Hillary Clinton so the fact that he is pushing for her on the ticket is perfectly natural for a true believer like him. Gore made the terrible choice of another neocon as his running mate and Hillary Clinton has the same views as Lieberman so forget it.