A propos de Palin contre Biden

Pour les anglophones je ne peux que recommander la lecture du billet ci-dessous trouvé sur le blog de Melanie Phillips.

Survival is not enough


Deux extraits pour vous mettre l'eau à la bouche:

"Once again, Sarah Palin has made the sneerocracy look ridiculous. Before her debate last night against Joe Biden, the chatterati were salivating at the prospect of Palin’s knock-out humiliation. The Times quoted Mrs Thatcher’s former image adviser Tim Bell:

I don't think any amount of preparation could help Palin; it's going to be bloody.

Au contraire; she danced round Biden like a matador sticking her knives into a clapped-out old bull -- who was clearly seriously constrained by the terror of making yet another of his jaw-dropping gaffes which appear to have passed the media by. Palin’s talent, and it is considerable, is to appeal over the heads of her media tormentors and speak directly into the camera and straight to Middle America which sees her as one of their own. That is, after all, what she was chosen to do – to shore up the conservative Republican base which otherwise would not come out for McCain, whose heterodox views are regarded with suspicion. Palin’s performance last night will have reinforced that momentum, which is crucial if McCain is to stay in this race ... "

Dans la deuxième partie du texte elle évoque la responsabilité de l'Affirmative Action et celle d'Obama lui-même pour sa contribution décisive dans une organisation communautaire appellée ACORN. Celle-ci était spécialisée dans des actions d'intimidation contre des instituts bancaires qui refusaient d'accorder aux minorités ethniques des crédits immobiliers. Vraiment passionnant.

"Stanley Kurtz has been chronicling the part Obama himself played in this disaster through his association with the Alinsky-inspired Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) whose core tactic appears to be intimidation. As was noted below during my absence this week, Investors’ Business Daily ran an editorial a few days ago which said:

In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago's ACORN to run training sessions in ‘direct action.’ That's the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called ‘Ninja’ loans — no income, no job, no assets — to people who couldn't afford them.
CRA was designed to increase minority homeownership. Whenever a bank wanted to grow or expand, ACORN would file complaints that it was not sufficiently sensitive to the needs of minorities in providing home loans. Agitators would then be unleashed.

Chicago's ACORN used Alinsky's tactics against institutions such as Bell Federal Savings and Loan and Avondale Federal Savings. In September 1992, the Chicago Tribune described the group's agenda as ‘affirmative action lending.’

Obama also helped ACORN get funding. When he served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its activist agenda.

In 1995, Kurtz reports, Obama chaired the committee that increased funding of ACORN and other community organizers. The committee report boasted that the fund's ‘non-ideological’ image ‘enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and governmental 'establishments' without undue risk of being accused of partisanship.’

The CRA empowered regulators to punish banks that failed to ‘meet the credit needs’ of ‘low-income, minority and distressed neighborhoods."’It gave groups such as ACORN a license and a means to intimidate banks, claiming they were ‘redlining’ poor and minority neighborhoods. ACORN employed its tactics in 1991 by taking over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA.

This is simply devastating stuff. Why on earth doesn’t McCain start using it"

Sauf que les sondages sont massivement hostiles à Palin comme Vice-Présidente potentielle--pour ne rien dire de "Présidente" !
Cette femme est le symptôme d'un déclin sans rémission de l'Amérique, et le choix de McCain n'est qu'une provocation télécratique, télégénique et démagogique.

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Cette femme est le symptôme d'un déclin sans rémission de l'Amérique, et le choix de McCain n'est qu'une provocation télécratique, télégénique et démagogique.

Vous me faites sourire, cher Bruno, car cela fait déjà longtemps que les campagnes électorales américaines ne sont plus que des opéras-bouffes démagogiques et télécratiques et que ces méthodes de marketing électoral sont utilisées systématiquement par tous les partis politiques.

Vous voulez parler du déclin de toutes les démocraties car ni la France ni l'allemagne ne peuvent, par exemple, se targuer de recourir à des tactiques électorales plus honorables.