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I support Obama but this is secondary to finding a technology capable of warping space/time to make the next 11 months vanish. 11 more months of a Republican adimnistration is an unacceptable nightmate that violates the fundamental laws our universe is built on. This administration is just as bad as the Third Reich and 11 more months of it would be just as horrifying as having the Third Reich stay in power after the occupation of Berlin.
The Israelis insisted on becoming a cruel and draconian colonial nation in the aftermath of the six day war, falesly deceiving themselves into the notion that occupying Palestinian land and civilians is absoliutely indispensable to their security and exsistence. After 40 years of behaving like the old S. Africa, they find themselves morally exhausted and corrupted, unable to let go of what is destroying their nation:deep paranoia and the addiction to occupation and settlements. No one can help the israelis as long as they are unwilling to go through a national detoxification.
HRC is a dead woman walking, whether she knows it or not. She'll be the Democratic nominee only if Obama dies suddenly. She has 3 more weeks to live in denial before she realizes that she will never be president. Her chances of winning this nomination are zero.
The Democratic primeries will probably end up with the Clinton campaign going to court, attempting to force the DNC to reinstate the Florida and Michigan "delegates". The Clintons aren't going to give up the nomination without a fierce and brutal. They consider the nomination to be their porperty, being stolen from them by an irritating newcomer. A professor of statistics explained to me last night that even if they succeeded in such a court battle, they still wouldn't have enough delegates to overtake Obama, unless they win TX, Ohio and Pensylvenia by almost 60%, which is extremely unlikely, but that won't stop them from plunging the party into mayhem.
HRC's to her string of humiliating defeats is to pretends she had actually won. She doesn't acknowledge defeats and flows each defeat with a speech that thanks her voters for imagined victories. Every Obama win is dismissed as trivial and insignificant, while every vote cast for Clinton is deescribed as a huge achivement and a sign of impending victory. I watched one of her senior advisors on PBS yesterday, and according to her, Obama's wins were an indication that Hillary's campaign is successful and doing very well-for a moment I thought I was listening to the unforgettable former Iraqi information minister.
Jazz is a unique art form that makes your soul soar to unimaginable heights, just like the great impressionist art to which it's often compared. Two incredible jazz giants should've been mentioned here:the astonishing late bass clarinet, alto sax and flute player Eric Dolphy and the very much alive and well brazilian mad genius composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist hermeto Pascoal, now widely acknowledged as possibly the greatest improvisationalist who ever lived.
is that they will get the nomination somehow, some way, no matter what, and unless the party wants to go down in flames at the August convention ala Chicago 1968 and hand the presidency to McCain, it better let HRC be the nominee. Listen to Clinton's people carefully, and the underlying message and tone is clear: Hillary will be the nominee, regardless of the delegate count, regardless of Obama's victories, regardless of pledged delegates. It reminds me of the moto of a fictional private investigator from Peter Cheney's legendary crime novels:"We always get there somehow, and who the hell cares how".
McCain has been one of the most corrupt senators for many years, taking money from lobbysts while serving on the commerce comittee. Everybody in Washington knew it, but being the MSM darling fratboy, it has gone on undiscussed in the media. McCain, by his own admission, started cheating on his first wife right after returning from his captivity in Vietnam, providing an insight into his true character. The notion of McCain as a corruption hating mavrick is as insanly absurd as the notion of Hitler the Zionist. McCain is a corrupt warmomgering creep, always has been, always will be.
John McCain has based his quest to become President on two pillars:
1.He stopped just short(but encouraged his lackys to brand him as such) of describing himself as a war hero who survived tough captivity and is an expert on national security and foreign affairs.
2.He is a crusader against the power of lobbyists and their strenthhold on the government.
I never bought#1, but #2 is totally bogus. McCain has always hung out with Washington lobbyists, regardless of whether he actually had sex with one or more pretty female lobbyist(who cares). He has obviously done favors to them in his capacity as a senior member of the senate commerce committee. This hypocrite is running as an anti-lobbyist mavrick when he is actually really tight with lobbyists.
John McCorrupt is the most hypocritical politician of our time. He has based most of his appeal inventing an image of a mavrick politician who is disgusted with the Washington corporate lobby industry while being a serial friend and confidant of lobbyists. The Keating 5, taking campaign contributions from corporate lobbyists and doing favors for them, taking trips on corporate jets, etc. He's no different morally from Larry Craig, a fierce right wing anti-gay crusader who cruises gay bathrooms for sex. Kudos to Howard Dean for expressing his disgust with this media darling corrupt and aging fratboy.