I'm hoping that Saturday Night Live will take advantage of Hillary Clinton's story telling last week. She was reminiscing about her great experience as President's wife, the good old days of landing in Bosnia under sniper fire and not being able to go through the welcome ceremony in the run for safety. Video of the welcome showed her and Chesley happily greeting people, including a smiling young girl.
Oops! Here's the scoop:
Meanwhile, we're at 4000 casualties, 97% of which have taken place since Bush declared mission accomplished. I can only imagine the shredding of paper and cover ups taking place right now behind the scenes in fear that Obama or Clinton will be elected. I bet Bush and Cheney have more interest in McCain getting elected than supporting their party.
I wouldn't be surprised if we find them both in prison in a couple years if McCain doesn't win. I will not be surprised at all if we find out after the fact that this has been the most corrupt administration of recent times.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Example of Karl Rove at Work? MSNBC's Dan Abrams
Conspiracy theories are, by their very nature, less likely to be true than not. Nevertheless, something very fishy seems afoot below in Alabama.
Parts of this administration (especially Rove) have seemed so crooked to me, and my recent disliking to Clinton is my fear that she will only be more of the same on the other side. I just don't get that impression from the Obama campaign. My fear of McCain is that it would just be business as has become usual.
Admittedly, I thought Bush had a good heart when he took office. I continue to want to think the same thing, although I find it so difficult. So out of good will I have him in the "well intentioned but misguided" category. Rove I put in the "Machiavellianly misguided, but good intentioned by a warped and twisted standard" box.
Friday, March 07, 2008
A Warning to the Democratic Party
Who does the Democratic Party need to win this Fall? They need Republicans and Independents who are so disaffected with the trajectory of the nation that they are willing to vote Democratic.
You could argue that I fit that demographic. I can't hardly think of a single area in which I think the Bush administration has, in the end, done anything but harm the nation:
1. Economy worse than it has ever been since the Depression because of a frivolous war costing billions of dollars a week--which we are borrowing from China and Saudi Arabia, making them richer and richer every day!
2. Foreign policy in the tank because of a cocky administration with no understanding of other cultures and a ethnocentric arrogance that is part of the cause of our Middle East troubles in the first place!
3. Education in the tank because of sticks without money or the means to do what is demanded of it--closing schools that fail because of socio-economic reasons and then only transferring the problem to other schools that will now accelerate in failure because the underlying issues aren't being addressed.
4. In our desire to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, we have had to dig up some of the most extreme Supreme Court nominees since the 1800's, almost Nazi types. I have to wonder if the net gain--which has yet to materialize at all--off sets the potential loss in gains we've made as a culture since the days of lynching blacks.
None of the current candidates will appoint judges who will overturn R v W. Even if R v W were overturned, abortion would only become a matter of state by state voting. It would not outlaw it. Those who vote solely on this issue seem to me to be like bugs who can't see anything but the light they are flying into. Let everything else burn to the ground around them for decades on end because all they can see is this one issue... that we are hardly any closer to fixing than when we started.
The anger I have toward the current Republican trajectory is overwhelming.
But I have unequivocally decided since Ohio and Texas that I'll vote for McCain over Clinton. Why not? He has an evangelical position on abortion. Despite the fact that he has joined Bush for political reasons, he would never have got us into this war if he had been president. He'll be more fiscally responsible than Bush has. He won't cater to the Nazi wing of the Republican party any more than he has to to survive.
So here's my warning to the Democratic party. You might convince me that Obama is just the change we need at home and abroad, despite issues where I might disagree with him. But you'll never convince me that Clinton is just the change we need. She's a smug conniver who, if she gets the nomination, will do so by playing the system. My hopes that we might return to honesty and the "good of the people" will convert back to the depression of the Karl Rove years.
I'll not vote for her. So go ahead and be the stupid party... AGAIN, if you want to. Or wise up and pick someone who inspires hope in people like me--whether it's real or ephemeral.
How about it, Pennsylvania, superdelegates, Michigan, and Florida? Help your party, send Clinton a packin'. Or you'll alienate the very people you need to win the next election.
You could argue that I fit that demographic. I can't hardly think of a single area in which I think the Bush administration has, in the end, done anything but harm the nation:
1. Economy worse than it has ever been since the Depression because of a frivolous war costing billions of dollars a week--which we are borrowing from China and Saudi Arabia, making them richer and richer every day!
2. Foreign policy in the tank because of a cocky administration with no understanding of other cultures and a ethnocentric arrogance that is part of the cause of our Middle East troubles in the first place!
3. Education in the tank because of sticks without money or the means to do what is demanded of it--closing schools that fail because of socio-economic reasons and then only transferring the problem to other schools that will now accelerate in failure because the underlying issues aren't being addressed.
4. In our desire to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, we have had to dig up some of the most extreme Supreme Court nominees since the 1800's, almost Nazi types. I have to wonder if the net gain--which has yet to materialize at all--off sets the potential loss in gains we've made as a culture since the days of lynching blacks.
None of the current candidates will appoint judges who will overturn R v W. Even if R v W were overturned, abortion would only become a matter of state by state voting. It would not outlaw it. Those who vote solely on this issue seem to me to be like bugs who can't see anything but the light they are flying into. Let everything else burn to the ground around them for decades on end because all they can see is this one issue... that we are hardly any closer to fixing than when we started.
The anger I have toward the current Republican trajectory is overwhelming.
But I have unequivocally decided since Ohio and Texas that I'll vote for McCain over Clinton. Why not? He has an evangelical position on abortion. Despite the fact that he has joined Bush for political reasons, he would never have got us into this war if he had been president. He'll be more fiscally responsible than Bush has. He won't cater to the Nazi wing of the Republican party any more than he has to to survive.
So here's my warning to the Democratic party. You might convince me that Obama is just the change we need at home and abroad, despite issues where I might disagree with him. But you'll never convince me that Clinton is just the change we need. She's a smug conniver who, if she gets the nomination, will do so by playing the system. My hopes that we might return to honesty and the "good of the people" will convert back to the depression of the Karl Rove years.
I'll not vote for her. So go ahead and be the stupid party... AGAIN, if you want to. Or wise up and pick someone who inspires hope in people like me--whether it's real or ephemeral.
How about it, Pennsylvania, superdelegates, Michigan, and Florida? Help your party, send Clinton a packin'. Or you'll alienate the very people you need to win the next election.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
And then there were three...
Looks like we're down to McCain, Obama, and Clinton. I don't think it's possible for McCain to win against Obama, although he might against Clinton. Hard for me to see Clinton winning over Obama, but she's not to be underestimated. So I'm sticking by the predictions I made way back after Iowa, that Obama will ultimately win against McCain.
I'll confess that I'm getting the same vibe from the Clinton campaign that I had from Bill back in the 90's--"Slick Hilly." I guess the white male vote for Hilary breaks at 44 years old right now--white men over 44 go for her, younger for Obama. HA! I'm 41 and have liked her less and less with each passing bump in the road.
I'm getting that same vibe I've always got from her and her husband--manipulation. Whatever you think of Obama's views, he and McCain have seemed to me to run clean campaigns. My impression from her--she'll do whatever it takes and whoever she needs to run over to get elected.
My thought--this is Hillary's last chance. The boomer demographic barely continues to hold power. Next election the next generation will be in full control, and they can smell a ruse a mile away.
Clintons, rest in peace. You'll never go back to the White House.
I'll confess that I'm getting the same vibe from the Clinton campaign that I had from Bill back in the 90's--"Slick Hilly." I guess the white male vote for Hilary breaks at 44 years old right now--white men over 44 go for her, younger for Obama. HA! I'm 41 and have liked her less and less with each passing bump in the road.
I'm getting that same vibe I've always got from her and her husband--manipulation. Whatever you think of Obama's views, he and McCain have seemed to me to run clean campaigns. My impression from her--she'll do whatever it takes and whoever she needs to run over to get elected.
My thought--this is Hillary's last chance. The boomer demographic barely continues to hold power. Next election the next generation will be in full control, and they can smell a ruse a mile away.
Clintons, rest in peace. You'll never go back to the White House.
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