Gibberish Bombast and Bullshit… [UPDATED: DMR final poll]

… and it has given me a headache the size of Texas.  Candidates, their handlers, political writers (almost all), self important “voters”, and the DC jellyfish brigade, too.

And still they ladle out the platitudes and promise us tended rose gardens.  If we are “responsible”, watch our diet, buy their mandated health insurance fangle-dangle, don’t smoke (but be sure to drive alone on the caustic highways, there being little choice in the USA!!USA!! – and do ignore the trucks and the shipping and the exhaust… and don’t look too closely at the Rio Grande river, choking on the factory effluvia), if we do all of that AND there is no stray chocolate on our white cotton gloves, why, Hosanna Lord and Master, that tended rose garden will be very well tended.

Somehow or other.  They all get vague… I read that Hillary now has her music start up loud at the end of her presentations (how are your white gloves doing, lady?) so there can be no Q&A, Edwards cut off questions following an inconvenient one about that 527 (as if it matters, no clean white gloves anywhere in Iowa) and Obama, well, catch him now or, Michelle says, it’s over for them.  They know Target, so they know us.

One is hope one is change one is the fervent warrior.  Change used to be Hope, Hope used to be Unity and Colorblind and, god help us, the Warrrior used to be both Hope and Help.

Hogwash with a pigshit back.

I did get some amusement out of this, NeoCon Lite Peter Galbraith gets his head and his ass handed back to him, in the thread to his Pakistan comment in the Guardian.  What a fucking loon.  Another guzzler of hogwash, smeared in pigshit, ready to sell us into war.

Here, have a rose.  It smells a lot better than the stench out of Iowa.

       

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UPDATE, 3:49 am

IOZ read the Reza Aslan opinion piece in the Wapo too.

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UPDATE, 7:16 pm

DMR final poll is up:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has widened his lead in Iowa over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards heading into Thursday’s nominating caucuses, according to The Des Moines Register’s final Iowa Poll before the 2008 nominating contests.

Obama’s rise is the result in part of a dramatic influx of first-time caucusgoers, including a sizable bloc of political independents. Both groups prefer the Illinois senator in what has been a very competitive campaign.

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The poll reflects continued fluidity in the race even as the end of the yearlong campaign nears. Roughly a third of likely caucusgoers say they could be persuaded to choose someone else before Thursday evening. Six percent were undecided or uncommitted.

The poll also reveals a widening gap between the three-way contest for the lead and the remaining candidates. No other Democrat received support from more than 6 percent of likely caucusgoers.

The findings mark the largest lead of any of the Democratic candidates in the Register’s poll all year, underscoring what has been a hard-fought battle among the three well-organized Iowa frontrunners.

It is also the only recent poll of Iowa caucusgoers showing Obama with a lead larger than the survey’s margin of sampling error, which is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

The telephone survey of 800 likely Democratic caucusgoers was taken Dec. 27-30. ::snip::

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UPDATE, 1:30 am

    

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UPDATE, 3:16 pm

The world outside Iowahhhh:

  

TimesOnline has an article up on the protests the past few days in Kenya.. with a javascript pop-up of photos…

A mob has torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence, killing at least 50 people, many of them children, as the country’s disputed presidential election set off a bloody convulsion threatening what had been East Africa’s most stable and prosperous democracy.

Four days of rioting has killed at least 228 people, and 70,000 have been displaced in western Kenya by the post-electoral disruption, according to a Kenyan Red Cross report today.

The newly re-elected President Mwai Kibaki said today that political parties should meet immediately and publicly call as the for calm as the opposition leader Raila Odinga told Associated Press that the government is guilty of “genocide” after the deadly violence sparked by the disputed election result.

Fears are increasing that the bloodshed, which marks the worst crisis the country has known for decades, will spread into a larger ethnic conflict between Luo, who generally support Mr Odinga, and the Kikuyu tribe of Mr Kibaki. ::snip::