Egg on our face

August 24 2008

Barack Obama chose Joe Biden to be his candidate for vice-president. We predicted Hillary Clinton, so we have egg on our face. Now it is likely that McCain will respond in a particular way to Biden, perhaps by adding fierce counter-campaigner Romney.

We confess to adding to the problems of the Democratic Party by raising the subject. McCain is now spending money on ads to raise why it was not Clinton.(1)

The choice of Biden is a shock to us. It is significant that Obama did not pick a governor with no experience in foreign affairs.

The Republican candidate for president John McCain is also saying that Obama will now get a 15% bounce in the polls in the Democratic convention this week.(2) That is to raise expectations and leave voters disappointed.

The Biden selection has deeper significance in the issues of plagiarism and office bugging.(3) Rumors swirl around Obama and the question of plagiarism.

Innuendoes from the highest ranks of the Republican and Democratic parties suggest a plagiarism problem that could knock Obama out of the race with McCain. In connection to these rumors, MIM has received death threats from the Democratic Party, including a threat to use material obtained while bugging MIM--threats leading to mafia pressure on MIM and a whole host of imaginary charges.

What we know for sure is that in 2006, MIM received similar death threats after publishing exposures of the "Revolutionary Communist Party" connection to Democrats. We had also told the supporters of that organization that their true party chair was Howard Dean and to avoid being "revisionist," they best admit it and move on. Revisionists in our usage are people dishonestly claiming to be Marxist.

MIM is not involved in electoral politics. If the bourgeois parties use some piece of dirt against each other, it is not our concern. Nor are we really in a position to stop it. Neither party listens to MIM.

The leaders of the united $tates sometimes use scandals against each other toward multiple ends. The use of scandals creates a market for intelligence, whether it be mafia moles, private contractors or FBI, NSA or CIA agents who talk. The people who conduct this sport are more likely to know things about politics in general. On the other hand, the intelligence war --the scandal mode of politics--still has a bourgeois dynamic to it.

Notes:
1. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign25-2008aug25,0,5293547.story
2. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/23/1285720.aspx
3. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/23/political-opponents-may-have-bugged-biden-in-late-80s/