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Robert Scheer | Obama, Romney Leave No More Room to Argue

Sat, 10/06/2012 - 12:45 — Dave Culver
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  • Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences.
  • Noam Chomsky On How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012

Robert Scheer, Truthdig

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The presidential debate this week was much ado about nothing, and Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences. What generally has been celebrated by the mainstream media as a wonky debate over substantive disagreements on the economy and medical reform—“a fundamental choice about the future of America,” Peter Baker trumpeted in the New York Times—was nothing of the sort.

It is absurd to depict this rhetorical stew of superficial nitpicking by two candidates with a proven record of subservience to the Wall Street bandits responsible for wrecking our economy as a meaningful exercise in democratic governance. Both would rather talk about anything but Wall Street’s financing and control of both parties and chose instead to dwell on their nonexistent differences over health care reform.

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Noam Chomsky On How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012, Matthew Filipowicz, AlterNet

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  • He said he will probably vote for Jill Stein for president in effort to push a genuine electoral alternative.
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