For those who believe in polls

Post #236,933 by marlowe 12/3/05 9:31:53 AM Reply	For those who believe in polls [link\|http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/War%20on%20Terror_Monthly_Update.htm\|Winning the war at home] Excerpt: December 2, 2005--Confidence in the War on Terror is up sharply compared to a month ago. Forty-eight percent (48%) Americans now believe the U.S. and its Allies are winning. That's up nine points from 39% a month ago and represents the highest level of confidence measured in 2005. Just 28% now believe the terrorists are winning, down six points from 34% a month ago. The survey was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday night following the President's speech outlining his strategy in Iraq. Huge partisan divisions on questions dealing with Iraq remain. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans believe the U.S. and its allies are winning. That's up from 64% a month ago. Just 28% of Democrats believe the U.S. is winning while 45% of Nancy Pelosi's party believe the terrorists are winning. Even that is a more optimistic assessment than last month when just 19% of Democrats said the U.S. was winning. Among those those not affiliated with either major party, 40% now say the U.S. and its allies are winning. Thirty percent (30%) take the opposite view. A month ago, unaffiliateds were evenly divided. I say: Bush keeps quiet, the numbers go down. Bush speaks out, the numbers go up. Perception is not reality, but perception is a reality, that needs to be managed. The truth has got its boots on once again. What the opinion polls measure is something shallow, emotional, ephemeral. It's the froth of the zeitgeist, not its soul. The proof? How easily it can be swung back and forth, by talking heads and pictures on the boob tube. So who speaks to the American soul? Not the mainstream media. Those blow-dried bimbos haven't even got souls. Nor the Democrat party. Same reason. The Republican party? A little bit, but not as much as they think. Talk radio? Somewhat. Talk radio is mostly about callers. It's about listening to the American soul and letting it have its say, and then responding. In short, dialogue. This is what Al Franken could never quite understand. But who really connects with America at a deep level? I say it's the bloggers. They're less centralized, more democratic. Also, blogs do a better job of reporting and investigative journalism (or at least fact checking) than do the mainstream news outlets. This is the future, folks. As far as the reality in Iraq goes, I'll have a post shortly on what Joe Lieberman has to say, about what he saw in Iraq. But for now, there's [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/iraq.html\|all this]. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/politics.american.html#20051203\|Angelfire link] (turn off Javascript to avoid popups) Freenet: /SSK@jbf~W~x49RjZfyJwplqwurpNmg0PAgM/marlowe/22//politics.american.html#20051203 [link\|http://fnmarlowe.blogspot.com/2005/12/for-those-who-believe-in-polls.html\|Comment at blogger.com] [link\|http://marlowe-essays.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-we-need-prescription-for-our.html\|What We Need - a prescription for our times] [link\|http://marlowe-essays.blogspot.com/2005/01/where-i-stand-proverbs-and-axioms-for.html\|Where I Stand - Proverbs and axioms for the real world] [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/dictionary.html\|the Marlowe Dictionary] ---------------------------------------------------------------- 4 out of 5 Iraqis choose democracy! If you don't like my posts, don't click on them. Never mind the AP. Here's the real Iraq reporting: [link\|http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/\|http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/] "The period of debate is closed. Arms, as the last resort, decide the contest." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Post #237,028 by Ashton 12/4/05 6:15:02 PM Reply	Pollmeisters abound; now there's a New Hire in Cheneyville And clearly the Nintendo Eloi have done the hook, line, sinker dance.. to a fare-thee-well. Singing telegrams to the basest of The Base, next? Indeed, the effectiveness of the new-hires and that comfy Victory word - is a wonder to behold. Why, merely by piping aboard a new spinmeister from Duke U., the visceral blood has been conditioned to pulse faster in the chilled veins of the Believers - now searching desolately for any sign that their mantra, Let's Kick Some (more) Ass was: Right-sized and Invasion-sized for er Victory. "This is not really a strategy document from the Pentagon about fighting the insurgency," said Christopher F. Gelpi, Dr. Feaver's colleague at Duke and co-author of the research on American tolerance for casualties "The Pentagon doesn't need the president to give a speech and post a document on the White House Web site to know how to fight the insurgents. The document is clearly targeted at American public opinion." When the quicksand is up near the Adam's Apple, the throat is raw from shrieking mawkish slogans, Wolf! Wolf! Terrierists! Trust-Me!! ..as have all worn gossamer thin: grasping at a proffered rope is as certain a stimulus/response as the guaranteed momentary-relief, after a sneeze. Apparently for those wearing blood-colored glasses, a lime jello rope appears to be hemp-colored. It must be wretched to have invested all that energy, which most functioning humans reserve for living a Life - into the patently false semantic trickery of a cabal. But I have no sympathy for those gulled so easily and completely.. Not now, not after an unbroken succession of compounded blunders - which even the hurling of Jesus' Name, as condiment, can no longer magically re-misunderexplain. As [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/politics/04strategy.html\| Scott Shane] points out, in describing the panicked accession of the New Spinmeister, Peter D. Feaver - an acolyte of Poll-mining: it's all only ever been about.. (building on the earlier work of their Spin-god, Paul Joseph G\ufffdbbels.) Whether or not spin-Doctor Feaver is worthy even to lick the shiny boots of his deceased paragon of manipulative bafflegab -??- we shall all find out, as the center ~~cannot hold~~ was steamrollered long ago. For the Believers, it's just another day in the trenches with Sisyphus, rolling that large round boulder back up the Teflon-covered mountain - while seeking relief in new calumnies to hurl at the Idiots; those idiots who saw the idiocy and the Presidential/Wolfowitz zealotry laid bare - - from that very first recycled-G\ufffdbbels slogan, Three. Long. Years. Ago. and Counting. Sorry, Charlie Sunkist\ufffd does not want fish with good taste - it wants fish that taste good. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use -- Colon swallowed -- irony.
Post #237,047 by boxley 12/4/05 8:21:39 PM Reply	so when the greater persian empire is born you consider your job done? well we hae the same aims at least. thanx, bill "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #237,058 by ChrisR 12/4/05 10:03:59 PM Reply	In BLogs We Trust.
Post #237,090 by jb4 12/5/05 1:49:18 PM Reply	(all others pay cash...) jb4 shrub●bish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT

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