Sure it's been a difficult season in which to tackle any reading projects, but there must be some in Obama nation who have spent the nights poring over Jane Mayer's The Dark Side or Barton Gellman's just released Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Scary, scary stuff.
When she was interviewed on the Charlie Rose program, author Mayer discussed torture as a terribly misguided moral failure in the Bush administration, but then came back around to what does, in fact, work when looking for information: "money, flattery, and sex." (This comment occurs just after the 24 minute mark.)
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/08/13/1/a-conversation-with-author-jane-mayer
Now if that's intriguing to think about in regard to the mess we've slogged through since Bush brought us into Iraq on the back of a lie boldly and repeatedly told, then it's just as intriguing to think about what will likely be working in the forty-nine days that remain in this campaign.
If people truly are moved off the mark by money, flattery, and sex---what can we offer them as fellow citizens and potential voters? Let's say this: two out of three.
Let's flatter the American public by giving them enough credit, by assuming they can see through the lies and misdirections of the other side.
And then let's talk straight to the family checkbook. PLEASE download this flyer, print it off over and over again, and then do the ONE thing that has the best chance of working: go door to door in your own neighborhood first, and then go door to door in a circle that spirals outward from there,
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/giveupdefunk/tax_leaflet_back.png
Should we fail to do our part, we'll be left on the dark side November 5th.
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