Thursday, October 16, 2008

For Joe, The Plumber



What I was looking for was Ethel Waters doing this song in Cabin in the Sky, but YouTube seemed to have everything but. So Ella will have to do, even though, lovely as she is, she just doesn't bring the same ebullience to the number that Ethel did.

And Lord knows, a certain joi de vivre is what this day calls for in view of the fact that last night's debate seems to have put another nail in the coffin of John McCain's '08 presidential campaign! I don't think I'd go this far though. It's not "conservatism" that has been repudiated at the polls, it's rightwing reactionary McCain/Bush/Republicanism. Not the same thing. As Digby and Greenwald have both noted repeatedly, we have a long way to go in order to restore the good name of "liberalism" from the trashing that GOP extremists have given it and, unintentially I think, the same is true for "conservative." What a relief it will be, just to get back to actual centrism!

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