Nathan

One might see the post about Republicans using the church as a cover for their true policies and intentions and/or for politics in general – one might think, as Gindy wrote in about, that I write this directed solely at Republicans. I do not. I find all modern politics despicable in this right whether it is Bill Clinton using his persona and speaking skills as his own veil to Bush using his aw-shucks personality to deflect serious questions about war and poverty and the environment.

I think the media feeds into this politics of personality as much as any other entity and it is really hurting America and hurting our process of understanding. It is hard enough to be educated about our current world without our media falling for privatization vs. personalization or nuclear vs. smear tactics or whathaveyou. Arnold did not represent himself as he is now acting when he was running. Bush went with ‘compassionate conservative’ when he first ran as well. The marketing bullshit and lies and deception bug the hell out of me whether it comes from the left or the right.

What we are faced with right now is very serious – they just had to delay a spring baseball game due to feet of snow dropping in Ohio – it is high time that we demand more than buzz words and marketing BS from our leaders and from our press.