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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Counting The Days

Eugene Talmadge
We count the days until the election is over. Then we shall count the days until we have left this period of time and all memory of it behind us. I have never seen an election like this. I suppose if you are younger, all elections seem to be pretty much the same: trot out a lot of pastors and reverends, kiss their hands or condemn them to hell; avoid too much policy chit-chat; call your opponent a demon, a communist, a terrorist; operatives mutilating themselves and crying "Black guy!". I am told that the national election is redolent of campaigns in Georgia run by Eugene Talmadge in the 19302 and 1940s. When I was young, each side insulted the other Party, but the did not vilify the individual Americans running for office. Oh, McCarthy did, but that was his sole line of work: vilify, not verify.
And Talmadge was an undisguised white supremacist. His opponents could end up beig vilified by the existing Southern Vituperation of the day. This political process we have is not good. It is broken like everything else about our system. It needs an electorate that will grow up and act like adults to straighten it out.

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