Archive for July 2008
“People vs. Corporations”: An Emergent Meme
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 21, 2008
Five years ago this December, I wrote an essay entitled The Fourth Turning predicts People vs. Corporations. That essay served as the start of this Duck and Gather blog.
Back at close of 2003, when I posted that essay, a Google search for “people vs. corporations” returned little on that theme. But try searching for “people [...]
It’s the Bankrupt Economy, Stupid
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 7, 2008
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Looks like the Obama campaign listened to the recommendation of my prior blog post entitled
Obama Strategy: Issues that Unite = Win; Issues that Divide = Lose.
That is, this morning, the Obama camp finally broke their 3 week long attempt at blowing up a magical campaign. They came close to that by having Obama [...]
Obama Strategy: Issues that Unite = Win; Issues that Divide = Lose
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 5, 2008
I just posted this on my.barackobama.com:
I think I’ve hit on the language that fits Obama, and that can articulate some of the outrage coming from the FISA group, and more broadly, from people horrified by Obama’s clumsy “move to the political center” in June.
It’s pretty simple, really. Sometime around mid-June, on the advice of his [...]
Obama as Gorbachev (3 of 3): DIO
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 4, 2008
DIO = “Do It Ourselves”. This the third of a three-post series. In the first post of the series, I explain that I was disappointed to learn, these past couple of days, that Obama is an unprincipled pandering politician, rather than the human I thought he was. In the second post, I somewhat rehabilitate my [...]
Obama as Gorbachev (2 of 3): Giant Shoes
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 4, 2008
In the first post of this series, I explained my disappointment in learning that Obama is nothing more than a pandering politician. But then I wondered whether I was just being naive. Perhaps the phrase “pandering politician” is a redundancy. Maybe what it means to be a politician is to be a panderer. And maybe [...]
Obama as Gorbachev (1 of 3): Disappointment
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 4, 2008
I’m disappointed in Obama. Looks like I’m not the only one. Check out Keith Olbermann grasping to hold on to his view of Obama as a human meriting respect:
That video was about Obama’s recent reversal of his position on the FISA legislation. That surprising reversal was just one among many that [...]
The Way Out for Obama
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 3, 2008
Yesterday, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times confirmed what one might expect: Obama is way stressed out. She paints him as caught between the “warped imagination[s]” of the left and the right in America.
If so, then his mistake these past few weeks has been in trying to pander to the pet prejudices of each [...]
Wouldn’t it be amazing if …
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 2, 2008
… Obama’s screw-up these past couple weeks (see the previous post) is a result of his campaign merging with Hillary’s? I don’t mean to “blame the witch again” with this post. But the idea bears consideration.
One thing Obama said he would do as president would be to appoint to leadership positions in Government the very [...]
Uh-Oh Obama
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 2, 2008
After what Obama has been doing since I posted my Landslide prediction two weeks ago, I might just have to downgrade that one. Read Ariana Huffington’s piece of June 30 entitled Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers. It’s a well-written article. I highly recommend it.
IMHO, Obama got to where he is [...]
You Go Baron!
Posted by: duckandgather on: July 2, 2008
WARNING: This post has pretty much nothing to do with Duck and Gather. Well, except maybe there’s a tangential correlation between how big corporations see us humans as inanimate, fungible, objects. But, OK, that’s a reach.
Anyway, over the last two days, an NBA basketball player named Baron Davis switched teams — going from Oakland (Warriors) [...]
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