Silly season
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 17 years ago, in 2007, on the World Wide Web.
This ad is nothing more than a series of strawmen. Still, it may be the most exciting race to watch in this campaign season. In any case a lot more turns on it than whether or not I personally choose to vote for Ron Paul.
(Via Majikthise 2007-12-10.)
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As far as the real candidates go, Gravel gets my vote for the best campaign vids by several light-minutes.
His rock + lake one was a masterpiece in terms of illustrating the solidist/fluidist dialectic so inherent to the very semiotic ontology of contemporary U.S. American politics.
The fire one I didn’t like quite so much, but it still provided a far better analysis of the problems with a fiat currency based fractional reserve banking system than anything St Ron. has said on the matter.
But then, actually teaming up with Rx2008…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S2zkh6ZOGE
Chapeaux, Mr Gravel!
(e.d. not that I want to be seen saying good things about anyone running for office, dunces and rogues the lot of them, as Emma put it.)
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