Reply #164: To buy "The Universal Consensus" really is a dangerous thing... [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

One could also believe that Bush won the Presidential election....but I don't quite see it that way.

Who forms the "Universal Consensus" anyway?

Clark ran a bad campaign how? I agree that choosing not to compete in Iowa was probably the worse decision that his campaign made...but apart from that, I don't see how running for 4 months (while everyone else had been running for over a year)but coming in second in largest amount of campaign donations prior to the New Hampshire vote; having the 2nd largest grassroots organization; Coming in third in New Hampshire (only behind the 2 native sons); being the only candidate to win a non-Home state primary aside from Kerry; coming in 2nd places in states like Arizona, New Mexico and North Dakota....all while being being smeared by the media, GOP operatives and other Democratic Candidates (he was a Republican until 25 days ago--lie)......and then before voting even occurred in the first state that he ran, being ignored by the media while others are being nothing but media attention. All of that from a non-pol....

In my opinion, Clark ran a very competitive campaign...when one is FAIR-MINDED ENOUGH TO CONSIDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE ACTUAL RESULTS.

In terms of "verbal Gaffes"....who determines what those gaffes were? The Corporate media? Yea...I guess so! Let me know what those verbal gaffes were, please. Was it when he was defending Michael Moore's right to speak? Was it when he was taking Bush to task and demanding that he (Bush) be held accountable for 9/11 and the Iraq War? Was it when he was calling out PNAC and the Neocons? Was it when he said that he would "Kick GOP ass if he was personally attacked"....only to later correct himself to say he would "kick THE SHIT out of GOP ass if personally attacked"?

You see, the "Universal Consensus" aka "Conventional wisdom" is usually written and spoken by the proverbial mediaWhores and Presstitutes and is only bought by those who need something (anything) to substantiate their point....or when one is unwilling to actually analyse the facts for themselves.

PS: Note that the "Universal Consensus" aka "Conventional wisdom" was that there were WMDs in Iraq and therefore we should go to war. But on second look....those were actually nothing but a bunch of lies and deceptions.