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on the other hand, pan, it is in no way surprising that folk who see in the barrage of meaningless personal attacks staged as adverts, in the barrage of false accusations, distortions, etc., emanating largely from the m-p campaign an aspect of a strategy would have difficulty figuring out how it is possible for other folk to not see an aspect of a strategy in it, but instead see in this barrage of memes something meaningful independently of a strategy.
one side of this debate sees the strategy as such--and that strategy is to avoid debate about issues, avoid being-situated in contemporary reality at all---this because contemporary reality as other people know about it associates m-p with the bush administration, and the campaign has made the obvious choice that this association is for them fatal. the other, including yourself apparently, sees in this barrage an actually viable source of information.
now if this is true, that the kind of material you are asking about is meaningful in the context of that strategy, then it is hardly plausible to expect that it will also be understood as meaningful independently of that strategy. so you see stuff about obama or mc-cain---i see expressions of a cynical and well-funded campaign designed to gut the political by reducing debate to gossip.
now the fact of this move on the part of the m-p campaign is a matter of public record.
so there's no way around it.
i think in this case that you are wrong in your assumptions, wrong in your approach to this barrage of non-information, this non-politics. and i don't see this as a matter of opinion. you know that is the strategy, you know the explanation for it--but you ignore it. that is an error. that is not opinion.
if there's a problem here, that's it: it's not got anything to do with the interpretation you floated earlier, nothing to do with your whinging about attacking obama. it has to do with you being simply, fundamentally, wrong in your interpretation of the infotainment floated by the campaign.
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