In a post from the blog The Carpetbagger, Steve Benen talks about a ‘third term’ for Karl Rove. He documents cases where the media has embraced a style of Rovian politics.

A Rovian style of politics is geared towards eliminating the substance, which is just the way major news outlets like it. The feeding frenzy is easier than actual journalism anyway.

Recently, When Wesley Clark went after McCain’s military service as a qualification to be President, the media went after Clark, instead of going after McCain. What was the real story? I say it was weather or not John McCain’s military experience really makes him more qualified to be president.

I call this style of politics not ‘Rovian” but “Orwellian”. Rove was quoted in the book “Bush’s Brain”:

“When we act, we create our own reality. While your studying that one, we’ll act again, creating other new realities.”

Rovian can be called Orwellian because it employs George Orwell’s principle of Newspeak.

The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies which reinforce the total dominance of the State.

The substance of Wesley Clark’s comments are now gone, McCain evades serious questions as to his credibility. Problem solved again.

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Perhaps he is vying for a VP position? Well Duh! Of course he is. He is also the perfect person to go after McCain in these areas. He has the military experience as well as the political clout to make his words known to a wide audience.

There have been calls from the McCain side of the fence Obama to condemn the comments. Seems like wishful thinking from the McCain camp. I do not see the need for him to condemn anything! I will leave you all with this:

John McCain served his country. He was captured and taken prisoner. That was very brave and honorable. How does flying a plane and getting shot down make you qualified to be the President of the United States? It just makes you a bad pilot, that’s all.

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Today was the day when Al Gore finally threw the full weight of his support behind Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama. But how much weight does Al Gore really have to throw? I would say that the endorsements from both Obama and Edwards are pretty much par for the course. They keep the Obama campaign on track. The endorsements most likely do not come as any surprise to the Obama campaign.

It seems to me that the campaign needs to keep the big “M” going. The “momentum” that they gained from Obama becoming the nominee was reinforced by these two endorsements. Many people say that Gore should have done this during the Obama primary campaign. What good would it have served in the overall goal of getting rid of GWB? The endorsement coming at this point does much toward continuing the momentum of the Obama campaign and uniting the Democratic party.

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