Matt Taibbi, a "respected" blogger for Rolling Stone, has drunk the wrong Kool Aid in his analysis this week that 2012's presidential campaign is the "most boring election ever" and it was picked up by CNN this morning.
Maybe he hasn't heard about the Tea Party and how its disciples are killing our ability to legislate in Congress??? And although Obama looks good for re-election if these people control the House AND Senate in 2013 how will that go for our country's future?
Luckily, the simplistic views of OWS (the progressive "Tea Party") are getting pushed aside by presidential campaign news and the fact that many mainstream progressives see its inner core as too extreme to create a long-term movement and have ignored attempts at even a 99% Spring, but Taibbi dropped a big load of ignorance on us here.
After yesterday's Marriage Equality back and forth between President Obama and Mitt Romney we have one candidate supporting gay marriage and another supporting an AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION against it.
We also have the Mitt-endorsed Ryan Budget vs Obama's Affordable Care Act, American Jobs Act and Recovery Act along with Wall Street Reform as weapons to support the Middle Class. We also are on our way to two less wars than we did in 2008.
And Romney is running to the RIGHT of George Bush on a host of issues, including tax cuts for the middle class vs the rich, immigration reform and civil unions!
Yet Taibbi writes:
"Obama and Romney feels like a contest between two calculating centrists"
Maybe Obama is a centrist but how is Mitt running as a centrist exactly???
And Taibbi shows off the depth of his interest in the issues here:
"Obama versus Romney is the worst reality show on TV since the Tila Tequila days. The characters are terrible, there's no suspense, and the biggest thing is, it lacks both spontaneity and a gross-out factor."
Sounds like something Joan Rivers would say on the red carpet before a presidential debate.
When American soldiers die and poor people die or suffer because of our political choices it isn't "boring" to them. This isn't a reality show. This is reality. We can't let people think this election doesn't matter.
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