The Best Blog for Comments on the Primaries/Elections, Especially for Showing the Emptiness of the Obama Campaign…

…Would be Good Times and Bad Times in Lost America.  Every other time I go to this site, I want to say thank you, for reminding me that I’m not the only blogger noticing how much this whole election is completely full of shit (even more than prior primaries and elections).  Obama has a lot of liberals and “progressives” hoodwinked into doing a big campaign for him - but why? 

The best recent post at Good Times and Bad Times consisted entirely of a quote from Noam Chomsky.  I’m not going to repost the whole paragraph here, but I really just have to copy about half of it:

When I was driving home the other day and listening to NPR - my masochist streak - they happened to have a long segment on Barack Obama.  It was very favorable, really enthusiastic. Here is a new star rising in the political firmament.  I was listening to see if the report would say anything about his position on issues - any issue.  Nothing.  It was just about his image.…  Because our electoral system, our political system, has been driven to such a low level that issues are completely marginalized.  You’re not supposed to know the information about the candidates.

Also well worth reading from the same blog (and posted just in recent days):

Ralph Nader:  Questions They Weren’t Asked:  The Great Clinton-Obama Debate  (with the title over there linking to the original article in Counterpunch).

Nader Should Run for President (with the title linking to an article in The Nation).  (And by the way, I will vote for him and urge other people to support him…  Not because I think Ralph Nader is perfect or I am in complete agreement with his political philosophy (I am not), nor because I think voting for Nader in an election is the best way to move us toward a significant change in the system…  But because this is the best use of the electoral forum and the election as it presently stands.  When there is a real organized boycott against an election such as this one (getting the word out to a large number of people exactly why not voting will be the best way to act on the elections), I will go with that.  But it’s extremely unlikely.  When there’s a socialist candidate who can get even a fraction of the votes that Nader can get or even be nearly as visible as Nader, raising the issues that Nader raises (which the major parties will not raise) in as wide a forum, I will go with that.   (Though many of these socialist candidates are Trotskyists or borderline Stalinists, which presents other problems for me…but I did once have a hard time choosing between Nader and the candidate for the old Debsian party, the Socialist Party USA - that was in ‘96, I think, when I almost voted for Mary Cal Hollis, but made a “practical” decision at the last minute to go for Nader)…  Anyway, we all have to decide what level of practicality we can stand vs. what our conscience tells us, and I think Nader is the correct choice, at least for me.)

If the aim is post-partisanship then why have parties (yep).

“What progressive wouldn’t want a “progressive Reagan”? ” R.J. Escow and the idiocy of the Obamanites (I’m reposting the title as it exists, though I think there’s something wrong with the way the quotes are set up.  But punctuation aside, it’s pretty much on-spot.)

This Just In, Obama Praises Uncle Adolph (quite amusing)…

Obama Praises Reagan (in case you were wondering what inspired the post just listed)…

And, anyway, there are many more where these posts came from…

Having a good time with Good Times and Bad Times in Lost America!

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P.S.  Some ridiculous spam sites are linking to, or copying from, all of my election-related posts, sometimes attributing the post to a different author name.  I don’t know how that happens or how to stop it, but unless somebody can offer me a useful suggestion, I guess I’m just going to ignore it for the most part.