Mother Davis wonders what it would be like if presidential candidates were treated with the same kind of kid gloves approach as Supreme Court candidates and imagines the following news conference:
Candidate: I have asked you to come here today to announce my intention to campaign for the office of President of the United Stattes. Any questions?
Reporter: What are your professional qualifications?
Candidate: I have served two terms as a member of the House of Representatives, and have been governor of North Dakota for five years.
Reporter: What can you tell us about your personal background?
Candidate: Well, my mother always told me that I should go to church, and I think that’s a really good idea. Also, I have a wife and three kids.
Reporter: Yes, but is your wife pretty?
Candidate: I think so. My press secretary will be happy to furnish you with a photograph.
Reporter: I’d like to ask a follow up question. Your kids – are they cute?
[Gasp, then silence, from the press corps]
Candidate: It’s all right, I’ll take the question. Yes, they are cute as buttons, even when they are engaged in harmless juvenile hijinks, a list of which will be provided by my staff upon request.
Reporter: How popular are you in Washington D.C.? Do you attend a lot of cocktail parties? Also, can you tell any good jokes?
Candidate: Yes, I’ve got a lot of friends in high places, but remember, I’m just a regular guy. I like to watch ESPN, after all, so let’s not put too much emphasis on all those black tie galas I attend. But that reminds me. What did the black tie say to the cuff link?
[Room erupts in appreciative laughter]
Reporter: Sir, what specific changes would you make to America’s energy policy? Would you sign any international agreements to fight global warming, such as the Kyoto Protocol?
[An aide to the candidate steps to the microphone]
Aide: I thought that we had agreed that there would be no such questions at this news conference.
Reporter: But I’m only asking about the candidate’s policy position on…
Aide: It would not be fair to ask this candidate to prejudge any policy positions prior to his acceptance of the Oath of Office as the President of the United States.
Reporter: But what about the candidate’s position on federal funding for stem cell research?
Aide: The candidate would implement the law. That’s all we have to say on the matter.
Reporter: Would the candidate continue the policy of preemptive war begun by George W. Bush?
Aide: That is an inappropriate question. The candidate would perform his duties as President in accordance with his interpretation of the law. Now, if there is a reporter with a more relevant question, the candidate will provide just one more answer today.
Reporter: Ooh me! How do you feel about bullies? Also, do you like puppies?
Candidate: Well, I hate bullies. I’m very, very solid on that issue. I just don’t like bullies at all. However, I would place myself firmly in the pro-puppy camp.
Aide: Thank you for coming, that’s all the time we have for questions today…
Wondering if John Roberts likes vanilla or chocolate ice cream better,
Mother Davis
The soft-ball questioning begun in W’s first term continues to this day. When Clinton was around, the media was contentious and asked difficult questions. Bush has been handled with kid gloves, even though Ari Fleischer thought the media too confrontational during his time as press secretary and would only give vague answers to any substantive questioning (this from his book, around p. 100) to avoid being “misinterpreted”. So we’re left with no real journalism, fact-finding, or reporting and the White House remains secretive and won’t talk to the public. Meanwhile, any details you want of W on vacation – hey, there’s some news!
Let’s see…The media handles Dubya with kid gloves…The media handled Bill with a confrontational manner…the people who own the media are, by and large, rich as hell…by and large,most rich people in the USA are Republi…canssss….OH! OKAY! Do we get it NOW???
i just love the “liberal media”. we have more corruption than tricky dicky could ever handle and we get to hear about another presidential vacation.
The Reich-Wing owns the media, therefore don’t ever expect anything critical of Shrub. They are whores, all of them(except Air Ametica and a few others).
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management –
3. Mafia (evil) aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere (“On planets where they approved evil.”)
Then we come to terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans – they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia – the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Survival of the favored.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1986 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
They can affect the weather and Hurricane Katrina was accomplished for many reasons and involves many interests, as anything this historical is::
1. Take heat off Sheenhan/Iraq, protecting profitable war machine/private war contracts
2. Gentrification. New Orleans median home price of $84k is among the lowest in major American cities, certainly among desirable cities.
3. Punish red states
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