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Cassidy begins: "One of the delights of Twitter, I am rapidly discovering, is that it relieves you of the obligation to think for yourself. You fire up your home page, and there they are: rolling news plus a handy collection of ready-made conclusions about practically everything under the sun."

Gov. Rick Perry listens as Michele Bachmann speaks at the GOP presidential debate, 10/11/11. (photo: Adam Hunger/Reuters)

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+31 # jon 2011-10-12 16:30

What a sorry bunch. I wonder what is really going on here - you know, the smoke filled room.

The easy supposition is that the powers that be are testing the electorate - if we are stupid enough to vote so profoundly against ourselves as to elect one of these corporate prostitutes, then maybe they can skip the next step of un-bridled nazi/fascism and go straight to feudalism.

Patience is not a trait of the ultra-greedy.

+13 # martina 2011-10-12 22:48

Did someone say that Herman Cain's "Nein, Nein, Nein" is an economic plan? All that is is typically Republican't cant.

+12 # MainStreetMentor 2011-10-13 03:01

The person that deafeats Perry is ... Perry.

+1 # futhark 2011-10-13 04:40

And not to be mentioned...again...Dr. Ron Paul!

+7 # kelly 2011-10-13 08:31

I'm struggling about whether to give your comment a thumbs up or down. I'm so glad they didn't mention Paul, I want to "like" it but the fact that you were bemoaning, not celebrating, his well-deserved fewer-than-fifteen-minutes-of-fame, it leads me to conclude you are just another one of his "Paulitico supporters". Too bad.

0 # futhark 2011-10-16 03:17

I gave you a thumbs up for calling me out correctly. I am a registered Green who gave money to Cindy Sheehan's congressional campaign and voted for Cynthia McKinney in 2008, but am a tremendous admirer of Dr. Ron Paul, for his outspoken consistency in opposing American military intervention around the planet. He courageously calls out his party's hypocrisy about "small government" and "fiscal responsibility" and "constitutional liberty", all the while funding military aggression on money borrowed from China, to be payed back by generations yet unborn, who have no representation. The truth is that there is really nothing conservative about the neocons, except the protection of the wealth and power of the plutocrats. No Democrat, with the possible exception of Dennis Kucinich, regularly speaks out in opposition to the ethical transgressions of his party's "leadership". OK, and I also like Dr. Paul's low-key style with no Obama-like tennis match spectator alternating right and then left teleprompter reliant speech delivery.

One of the biggest obstacle any reform movement faces is the tendency of adherents of one set of ideological dogmas is the insistence on uniformity, with little attempt to find common ground upon which coalitions can be formed. Ideological squabbles lead to fragmentation that always plays into the hands of the established powers.

+4 # KittatinyHawk 2011-10-13 16:35

He was mentioned again. He has introduced a bill giving yet another punch in Public stomach to allow polluters not to contain any of their Pollution, that no bill can ever be written again to stop Air Pollutions
So where are our Ron Paulers... I hope they enjoy the air, I said he was afoul from the start.

+8 # kelly 2011-10-13 06:06

For someone so allegedly clued-in to the politics of the day, I find your first statement particularly hard to swallow. If, indeed,you consider yourself just rapidly discovering these facts then you have never covered Palin have you. The Twitter Queen has always led with her thumbs. If you want to talk tweets, why not not mention the series of tweets coming directly from the Perry camp during the debate?He had nothing of value to say but each time he made some sort of gaffe another tweet would come from his campaign saying something like,"Well, what Gov.Perry meant to say about that was really this, or what he wanted to ask him/her was this." Not the best use of the medium but perhaps his only way for his minions to save him. Finally, there was no need to mention Ron Paul, the only thing you can do with a skipping record it toss it or listen to the same note over and over and over...snore.

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