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what do folk want from a presidential candidate?
what are you looking for?
this seems a curiously royalist thread, like we are surveying the pretenders to the throne who might follow the aging and decrepit present king and are trying to figure out which abstraction, which "personality" fits best with--well what?
at this point, most of the "coverage" of the horse race between pretenders to the throne seems to be about money: candidate x will say something, funding streams will react in directions on, off, neutral....it's like some bizarre little stock market--we watch the relative prices of obama vs. guilani go up and down as if this was rational, and because there is money being streamed into politics, it is a market and so is necessary and so is rational.
on the other hand, we are little royalists in a way---j.g. ballard was right in "the secret history of world war 3" that television makes us all ultra-royalist in that we collapse the political onto the person of the el jeffe.
very strange business, all this.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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