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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I can see both sides of the issue here. Sen. Obama has set records raising money during the primary season. He did this with small donations. It stands to reason that during the general election with new supporters being drawn into the fold, he stands to raise and outstanding amount of money! However, he is the first candidate to refuse public money since 1975. That in and of itself is tolerable in my mind simply because Sen. Obama has been the candidate to “break the mold” since the beginning.

However, I feel that the reasoning that he gives for his refusal is a bit convoluted. I think that Sen. Obama filp-flopped here and he will get caught red-handed. The underlying question becomes: Does the money gained by this decision outweigh the loss due to the flip-flop? I say yes, the potential money to be gained here far outweighs all else. What do you think?

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