Association is Not Free!

Unless given con text. 

Original intent ?  A Mitt-Flop on ** "free association"* or snooze in peace?

Put up or shut up? 
Yeah, that's the ticket!  NOT!

* anachonism of the ... N'th kind [!]
** ribble this

[Ouch!  A tribute to Specter and McGovern?]

10-22-12:  The point?  Bold added above, not really the point. Put up, don't shut up! That is the point.  So-called "un-decideds" may just be hesitate to settle on a pick for fear of ending up being responsible for being on the wrong side of history.  Like Herman Cain, "I don't have facts to back this up" but along with the potential that being undecided has for getting attention, there may be something to not being associated with a loser.  So... Put up, don't shut up!  VOTE!   BTW:  Obama may be the one, but is Romney the other one?  The other point?  There is less point in the effort to Restore Our Future(grammatically pointless), than to have Priorities USA !  

Death of the Middle Man.

R.I.P. David S. Broder
Ledership aside... that is my take, not that I always liked his takes.

Clause Wits

...war is politics by other means
I'm sorry... someone*** has made a point of my tangents. But it might be Germane*, or was he Austrian. No.. Prussian and Hegelian.
Could it not be said that economics has been the same, politics by other means?
What about religion?** Is that a valid spin?

*intended spelling
** in an evolutionary sense

[See update paradox of congress regarding line item veto]

*** also bowing to someone I include a definition from spin link:

Clausewitz’s trinity comprises three specific elements. The identity of those elements is readily evident to anyone who actually reads the first paragraph of his description: It is "composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity, which are to be regarded as a blind natural force; of the play of chance and probability within which the creative spirit is free to roam; and of its element of subordination, as an instrument of policy, which makes it subject to reason...." (emphasis added). This set of elements is usually labeled "emotion/chance/reason"; sometimes "violence/chance & probability/rational calculation"; or, even more abstractly, "irrationality/nonrationality/rationality."

It would seem that this creates our reality as opposed to an original intent begetting results, let alone values. Oh, but I guess it does. But some just have a different ge oh me try.
[12-15-10 Speaking of timing or tangents(footnote)the original purpose of my blog was to record such leaps, not always capable of recording their inspiration.]
[In the above footnote I succeeded in not loosing that inspiration, though it was close, but we have lost a very important piece in our power portfolio in Richard Holbrooke, may he rest in peace.]