The video lasts about two minutes and is an easy download from the party But then we hated the movie, which struck us as an unimaginative 90-minute But it’s good the Democrats are pounding away at this point. One The Blog-inspired imbroglio about the CBS documents purportedly showing The election is coming down to trust, which strikes the Dowbrigade as On such gut feelings do the future of empires fly.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Democrats have released a new video called "Fortunate Son", set to the Credence Clearwater Revival tune of the same name, and questioning (again) Bush’s guard duty during the Vietnam war. The video lasts about two minutes and is an … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nfortunateson.jpg\")
The
\n Democrats have released a new video called "Fortunate
\n Son<\/a>", set to the
\n Credence Clearwater Revival tune of the same name, and questioning (again)
\n Bush’s guard duty during the Vietnam war.<\/p>\n
\n web site<\/a>. It is being sold as "In the style of Fahrenheit 9\/11, which
\n seems like dubious marketing to us.<\/p>\n
\n political commercial. Amazing anyone actually would pay money to
\n see that claptrap (the Dowbrigade downloaded it via Bit Torrent, for
\n academic
\n purposes only).<\/p>\n
\n must remember that the American political dialog is not like having a conversation
\n with a sane, intelligent individual. Logic and evidence
\n are useless. It
\n is more like yelling at a drunk deaf man in a darkened room, and hoping
\n he can
\n hang
\n onto a
\n few repeated words, and remember them the next day when he sobers up.<\/p>\n
\n Bush was derelict in his duty are a perfect illustration of the standard
\n modern defensive tactic in the face of damning direct evidence; yell
\n fraud and forgery, counterattack, obfuscate, question documents, line up
\n experts and witnesses to counterbalance the oppositions experts and
\n witnesses, impugn the character and qualifications of the opposition’s
\n experts and witnesses, change the subject, look for red herrings and throw
\n a few into the mix if none are obvious. The water around these
\n claims is now so muddied that no one can see a clear truth coming out of
\n it, and to a very real degree IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE what the truth
\n of the accusations is because that truth won’t be established, if at all,
\n until after the election, and meanwhile everyone is going to find authoritative
\n support for their own view, whatever it is, and keep in believing what
\n they believed before.<\/p>\n
\n ironic, since we wouldn’t trust either of these guys to watch our computer
\n while we went to the bathroom at Starbucks. Unless a story comes
\n out that brands George Bush as completely untrustworthy, he is bound to
\n win. Most people don’t know nearly as much about Kerry, and aren’t
\n sure they can trust him yet. They may not be ready to carve Bush’s
\n profile onto Mt. Rushmore, but after four years they trust him not to sell
\n us out to the socialist softies or let the barbarian hordes threaten our
\n profligate lifestyle. <\/p>\n