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arib ([personal profile] arib) wrote2012-09-06 08:14 pm

Wake me up in November

I'm skipping both party conventions this year. The blatant rah-rah "patriotism," massaging of the facts and one-true-way-ism is just really bothering me. I'll catch the debates, and run out to vote and watch the returns, but I don't feel a need to participate in the past two weeks' brand of crazy.

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2012-09-07 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
You want to watch Clinton's speech. It's fifty minutes of solid policy wonkery with actual checkable numbers -- but is entertaining. Bill is one of the greatest orators of the modern world -- heck, he's in the same league as Cicero.

[identity profile] goldsquare.livejournal.com 2012-09-07 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
And, strangely, it was honest