A famous Illinoisan is said to have once said that you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. If Hillary Rodham Clinton can convince people that she’s an economic populist and anti-Wall Street, it will be a darned good trick.
Oh, I don’t know. Having made the horrible mistake of hanging out a bit at OTB recently I’d say Clavin, alMeada, anjin-San and perhaps Reynolds will make the transition seamlessly…….
The trouble is that you don’t have to fool all of the people all of the time. The bar is set at fewer than 50% of the people! as long as they are congregated in the right states to deliver 270 electoral votes. For that matter, you still do t even have to fool those people- just count on them thinking that the other guy is worse than you are.
Perhaps I was overly specific.
The Underwear Gnome Model of American Politics:
1. My candidates are awful, but yours are worse, so vote for my guys;
2. ????
3. Utopia!
#TUGMOAP
Now the CDC is once again changing it’s story:
New CDC confusion over Ebola as it deletes warning that virus can spread through coughs and sneezes from its website
Consistent pupublic messaging is, like, SOOOO hard!
(PD, the conspiracy gets its tentacles in deeper every day!)
Ellipsis- honestly, don’t you sometimes get the impression that they (the current administration and its minions) are just messing with us?
CS, I would, if I didn’t have such deep faith in this Administration’s incompetence.
Oops, the poster may be back up! Perhaps it is just more of the sterling website work for which this Admin is noted!
But this still doesn’t inspire confidence.
@Elipses, it’s a different poster. Patterico saved the original. They read similar though:
1. “Ebola is not spread through the airborne”
2. “Airborne spread happens when a germ floats through the air after a person talks, coughs, or sneezes.”
3. “Droplet spread diseases include: plague, Ebola. ”
4. “Droplet spread happens when droplets that are coughed or
sneezed”
The distinction might make some difference in a clinical sense, but its irrelevant for regular people, particularly as to the recommendation (wash your hands, be careful touching eyes, nose and mouth).
They rewrote it, apparently to make it more understandable for those who think there is a conspiracy, or for those who don’t understand biology. It says pretty much what it said before.
The difference between airborne spread and droplet spread is real and has significant relevance to how we respond.
Steve