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Alegre's Corner
We're not finished folks - not by a long shot!

Nowhere else to go

by: twandx

Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 07:12:48 AM EDT


The spirit of Lolita rises to challenge of the politics of the Ring, as O-life imitates art and Tolkein and Nabokov are revisited.

One hears it everywhere.  The warnings, the insults, the charges of racism and anti-Americanism and all because a few, who turned into a rapidly increasing flood, stood up and said, "NOBama".

"You have no choice.  Don't you stupid women realize that McCain will take away all of your rights, the rights given you and protected by Democrats?  OK, we know you are pissed because Hillary lost.  Tough titties.  Get over it.  Come home to the Party and drink the kool-aid, safe and happy under the giant wings of the newest self-proclaimed Archangel - the leader of the whole world.  You have nowhere else to go."

Democratic Party maybe presumes too much - about women (by Robin Lakoff,  professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley and author of "The Language War," "Talking Power" and "Language and Woman's Place")

"I am reminded of a particularly chilling passage in Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita." Humbert Humbert, after raping the 12-year-old, is pondering why she has come back to his bed. "You see," Humbert tells the reader, "she had absolutely nowhere else to go."
http://tinyurl.com/5ga98a

"You traitors!  If The Precious should lose it will be all your fault and the country will suffer for what you are doing with your PUMA, your Make Them Accountable, your Denver Group and all the rest."  

Wrong!  You, the DNC and BO's campaign chose to allow denigration of women in order to defeat Hillary.  You chose to break your own rules, for example, favoring one candidate over another by taking votes from Hillary and giving them to BO.  Using a willing media, you tried to force an empty package, decked out like a rock star with super powers and a mega-hubris down our throats.

twandx :: Nowhere else to go
Anglachel , http://anglachelg.blogspot.com/  in "Precious Little", made the analogy to Tolkein's, Lord of the Ring for the Literati.  Below, C.K. brings it home for those of us who may not have grasped all the nuances.

"Obama is the Ring and we are the Fellowship of the Ring.  It makes sense, once you understand that the ring was Evil and the purpose of the Fellowship was to destroy it, even though it was pretty, and tempting, and it's hard to actually destroy something that might be useful...

"There's a little poem inside that ring... 'One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them.'

"See why Obama makes a good "Ring" in this sense? Some people wanted to use that Ring for good and believed they could control it, but the Ring itself was uncontrollable, and turned every good impulse into Evil.

"The Fellowship (us) was a brave bunch of ordinary people who saw that  
the Ring wasn't as good as everybody else thought... and they took very special measures to destroy it, because they recognized they could never control it, once its power was loose on the earth."

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i have somewhere else to go... the house. (0.00 / 0)
i can stay home on election day and still say i've voted for every legitimately chosen democratic nominee since 1972.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

our biggest sin (0.00 / 0)
is being right.  Many of Hillary's backers didn't just back her, but backed a Democrat winning the GE and we had serious doubts that Barrack's early popularity would hold up over time.  We've seen fads come and go, and we could see that his followers came from different groups that wouldn't necessarily even like each other. There were the progressives who wanted to believe that Barack's anti-war speech told them everything they needed to know about his judgement, and they wanted to punish Hillary, for her vote that didn't stop the war.  And there are the kids, who wanted to get behind the newness, and didn't care what Barrack had to say about issues, they were going to back him until he got boring to them.  And then there are all those indies and cross-over pugs, who were mad at Bush and wanted to send a signal to the pugs, but didn't care that much about the candidate, and they polled they had a hard time deciding between Barrack and John McCain.  And then there are those intellectuals, who liked his theory, of finding common ground, and working toward consensus, but those that got the point of his message are in the minority.  And of course he doesn't walk his message, he's plenty divisive when it suits him.  

We thought this would fall apart before November, and that McCain wouldn't be seen as horrible enough to need to vote against.  I mean, Bush beat Kerry, how strange was that?  

The only large group of voters who'd like to go for unity is us, Hillary's supporters, we want a Democrat, but we're the only group he doesn't care about winning, no healing divisions for us.

It would be so simple, Barack is running as unique, but that's not working. He needs to run as a representative of his unity theory, his consensus theory, and he needs to show he can, by campaigning with Bill Clinton, and by asking HIllary to be his running mate and making it clear to her and all of us that it'll be a shared responsibility, he'll share with her. That's the theory, not the unique man, and the theory can win, but the unique man cannot.  

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I've often thought that Axelrove is Sauron (0.00 / 0)
and Obama is just a Nazgûl


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I'm all for throwing the Precious (0.00 / 0)
into Mount Doom. I'd bite off my own finger before I'd vote for Barack. First, I will do everything I can to make Hillary the nominee. If that should fail, I will cast a protest vote for McCain.  

Alice left me in Wonderland.  

"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you?re knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
Hillary Clinton - June 7, 2008

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