tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post5832835761055977881..comments2023-11-03T08:52:13.914+00:00Comments on The Moonshine Memoranda: HAPPY DAYS are here again...Selena Dreamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-81980970033914942482008-10-22T17:02:00.000+01:002008-10-22T17:02:00.000+01:00...and let's not forget that Obama came into promi......and let's not forget that Obama came into prominence through the Chicago political machine and the politics of racial grievance!Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-77440389206971581902008-10-22T16:50:00.000+01:002008-10-22T16:50:00.000+01:00My thoughts exactly (see post). Trying to work out...My thoughts exactly (see post). Trying to work out which party has the best policies has only ever got us into deeper trouble.All Shook Uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815298630864905608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-84355337056003380792008-10-22T16:46:00.000+01:002008-10-22T16:46:00.000+01:00Elementary, Jonathan. Democracy is all about creat...Elementary, Jonathan. <BR/><BR/>Democracy is all about creating enemies instead of winning new friends, and the odds are that it will so remain...Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-55850922304339479222008-10-22T14:55:00.000+01:002008-10-22T14:55:00.000+01:00Well, to be serious one minute, maybe it's not suc...Well, to be serious one minute, maybe it's not such a bad idea.<BR/><BR/>The interactions of political parties, after all, are hardly the creative, rallying points for the interation of thesis and antithesis that one might have hoped they'd be.<BR/><BR/>Each phalanx has decided in advance what its agenda and programme is. The debate too often consists in which side will prove supreme and oust and silence the other.<BR/><BR/>The all-sovereign lust for power sidelines considerations and perceptions that the other guys might be speaking value, after all - because if they aren't so sidelined, so it's thought, you'll be left impotent, an audienceless middleman, shorn of influence, consoled only by the unvirile wisdom of the Janus faced fence-sitter, whose words court the wind.<BR/><BR/>At Camelot, where all had power, and none were owned by pre-solidified agendas, one imagines thesis and antithesis could interact with far greater fluidity and freedom.<BR/><BR/>One might have hoped it would be the same in a democracy.<BR/><BR/>How's blighty? I miss the place. Seems like another world, depite BBC World and this anglicised campus.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-13082881095796789332008-10-22T14:49:00.000+01:002008-10-22T14:49:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-47723750241522490272008-10-22T12:47:00.000+01:002008-10-22T12:47:00.000+01:00Well, that's show business, David...Well, that's show business, David...Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-57774632847114583382008-10-22T00:17:00.000+01:002008-10-22T00:17:00.000+01:00Excellent work!Excellent work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com