In a way, John McCain, Republican candidate for president of the USA, is playing indirectly on this image: "Now, we can declare victory and move on."
McCain may even win the US election-if Americans accept the "We can now declare victory in Iraq" imagery and mentally tell themselves "the nightmare is over".
NOTE: If Al-Qaida is planning an October Surprise, perhaps McCain will have to abandon such imagery. However, he may do well just growling at Iran and telling us lies, like Biden and Obama are doves or wimps.
CONCLUSION: IMAGE OVER SUBSTANCE IN BANKS AND STOCKS Finally, most every single day in the mass communications world we now live in, Americans are constantly being subjected to some of the world's greatest spin doctors and propagandists. These leaders and mind-manipulators love pithy phrases, like "It's a done deal!", "Whose cool-aid are you drinking?", or "Declare Victory and Go home!"
America has the most powerful and wealthy political and image consultancy in the world. This is why we have to be vigilant and encourage our friends to ask the hard questions-especially the queries that wealthy media sources fail to shine their light on.
This autumn, as one of the most important presidential elections in world history is at our door, Americans must do better than our forefathers who have fallen time-and-again for pithy phrases and images of "victory is just round the corner".
The American economy is in a mess. Over half of all Americans are either struggling financially or have no health insurance.
As a matter a fact, the world economy is now being hurt by business-as-usual in America.
NOTE: America still has a plethora of human and natural resources, though. So, there is certainly a way out of bad governance and economy.
All-in-all, my critique of the past is that the coziness between big business, big investors, banking interests, lobbyists, and those in Washington, D.C. leads to horrible banking laws and regulation, like the horrible Phil Gramm legislation on investment banking and mortgages from a decade ago-which has led to the demise of many large mortgage lenders and investment lenders in recent decades.
Let's stop calling bad bills good bills.
Let's stop calling a recession a non-recession.
Let's stop declaring victory when there is no victory.
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