Josh Marshall - Pukes now in third of 5 stages of grief

[better2know]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_07_25.php#003207

(July 27, 2004 -- 03:43 AM EDT)

"Keep your eye out and you're bound to see this argument -- now floated by many conservative columnists -- that Kerry may win because voters need a breather -- a time-out, if you will -- from the turbocharged rush of history we've experienced over the last three years under George W. Bush. The president has simply accomplished so much, bent the world so mightily to his will, that Americans are craving a return to normalcy, as that campaign neologism once had it."

-gives example of a peggy noonan column-

"Rather than taking it on its merits, though, I have a different take on this argument. It's a rhetorical or logical reasoning halfway house on the way to a realization of how badly the president has screwed up what one might generously call his ambitious plans. As with Kubler-Ross's grinding five stages of grief, first we have denial. Then anger. And with this argument we have something akin to that tipping-point stage of 'bargaining' -- the sensible pundits' first tip-toe out onto a serious consideration of the impact of the president's term of office."

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Kubler-Ross's grinding five stages of grief:

http://imc.gsm.com/demos/dddemo/consult/kublross.htm

denial of death because they are unable to admit to themselves that the patient might die and/or they will suffer the loss death represents;

anger by which the pain of loss is projected onto others;

bargaining which represents a last effort at overcoming death by "earning" longer life;

depression when the full impact of imminent death strikes them; and

acceptance when the grieving come to grips with the fact of the patient's "illness"(edited for word choice) and make preparation for it.

-Hoping So! (in a metaphorical sense only!)

[jeff30997]

1. Interesting analogy.

"the turbocharged rush of history we've experienced over the last three years under George W... ".That is pathetic.I can't wait until they accept the fact that the Chimp's reign was a catastrophe.

[daveskilt]

3. turbocharged - as he marched into poland and then - history

[countmyvote4real]

2. I don't know if THEY can accept people before corporations. n/t

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