What Hillary's Boo-Boo Means

Hillary's boo-boo during the debate clearly illustrates the dishonesty of politicians in general. It also clearly shows how off-base the Democrats are regarding representing the wishes of the public. Eliot Spitzer's arrogant dictate that New York give out driver's licenses, and Hillary's and the other candidate's approval of same, illustrates that giving illegal immigrants I.D., and ultimately amnesty, is more important to them than representing American citizens.
If these politicians were as aggressive and manipulating as they have been in furthering illegal alien's causes; by solving Social Security, universal health care, Iraq, Iran, off-shoring, government fraud, oil depletion, energy, and other issues, American citizens might then feel better about their government.
The media has been better at being skeptical of the Bush administration and of Democratic spin but they still are not doing a good job. They in turn have been intimidated by the Bush Propaganda machine, which is composed of some media outlets such as Fox News, partisan congressional members, partisan think tanks, elites, big-business, and the like.
Bush utilizes Propaganda techniques, which I have written about in earlier blogs. His favorite ploys used in his speeches are appeals to flattery, juxtaposition, one-of-you, patriotism, transfer symbols, glittering generalities, bandwagon, fear, demonizing, dishonest renditions of history, and parsing of facts. Propaganda--that is all his speeches are.
But back to the media. Their approval numbers are going down too--partly because they appear to be more "partisan" to partisan viewers and part because it is hard to get to the facts on issues. The media, unlike the government, cannot tie slick politicians down and "water-board" the truth out of them.
Pointed and explicit questions are side-stepped, smoke-screened, and misconstrued ever-which-way by politicians, the elite, business men and women, and others and there is little that can be done about it except by researching well and pointing out immediately deceptive answers and tactics. As the propagandists get better at deception those employed to ferret out the truth must also get better. Studying what constitutes a fallacious argument, what propaganda is, and how to deal with "spin" is a first step to skewering the fallacies bandied about these days. We do not put emphasis on critical thinking in this country. A person does not learn about critical thinking until he/she reaches College and even there one might only receive a brief introduction to logic.
An example of how the media is falling down in bringing out the truth is the uncertainty still in people's minds about the Bush administration's use of propaganda to sell an invasion of Iraq and their continued use of Al Qaeda to keep the war going. The use of the word "Freedom" is constantly being used by Bush in regards to Iraq. Juxtapositioning of a word with a war is a propaganda ploy. I would argue that "Our" freedom is not at stake here. Al Qaeda may attack us here in our country someday but it will not take away our freedom--unless of course our own government takes it away. We have seen that already take place when Bush imprisons suspects indefinitely, wire-taps without warrants, tortures suspects, and what else may we find out later?
So, the Hillary Boo-Boo illustrates clearly that the American public is not getting the truth; that politicians will do anything, say anything for power; that they will sacrifice American sovereignty and citizenship for potential votes. It is time to stop listening and start watching what they do. Actions speak louder than words. Remember Bill Clinton brought us NAFTA and look what that got us, and does anyone know what the definition of "is" is?