Monday, March 14, 2016
Campaign news
News items:
The President said he's glad to see that in recent days Donald Trump, speaking in the eastern states, is sounding less like an isolationist. He said "I cannot trust a man who plays this kind of game with the grave issues of national security", and urged listeners to choose a candidate who maintains her principles under fire, and that candidate, he said, is Hillary Clinton. In upstate NY, billionaire mogul Trump finished a New England tour before enormous audiences with a speech tonight in Troy where he devoted himself to the subject of the nation's finances. He accused the administration of systematically encouraging inflation and using inflation as a national policy. The mogul's remedy consists of three steps. One, knocking down the administration's idol of cheap money; Two, getting unified action from the government's economic agencies; and Three, slicing the fat out of the national budget. Former secretary of state Clinton is in NY state too, and we're just getting reports of her speech in Buffalo where she said Fascist Buffoon Trump is guilty of a cruel hoax by holding out hope for the release of prisoners held by ISIS. And Clinton went on, it's a great tragedy that the Tea Party wackos have succeeded in doing what Hitler's best generals never could do: taking control of a major candidate.Needless to say, I'm pulling the tired old plus ça shit. This was actually a CBS radio newscast on October 12, 1952. The president was Truman and the candidates were Eisenhower and Stevenson. I changed the names, changed Soviet Union to ISIS, and changed Old Guard Republicans to Tea Party Wackos. Everything else is the same. What struck me as interesting was Stevenson's Hitler metaphor. I'd always heard that Adlai was the perfect model of delicate refined political rhetoric. Supposedly he lost to Ike because he was unwilling to stoop to gutter politics. And I'd always heard that Xenophobic Buffoon Trump Has Yanked Political Speech Into The Gutter For The First Time In The Whole Exceptional History Of Our Great And Grand Constitutional Democracy. Turns out old delicate Adlai could run a Godwin just as expertly as any modern Buffoon. ¶ 3:44 AM
