Letters to the Editor
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@anonymous 10:36pm -- Ron Paul is the other GOP candidate against torture
McCain is the only Republican candidate who not only classifies waterboarding as torture, but is completely against using torture in all it's forms.
Actually no--Ron Paul is the other GOP candidate who is completely against torture. Perhaps he and McCain deviate from the rest of the GOP candidates since they both actually served in the military.
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The Grey Lady
I am disappointed by the NYTs editorial endorsement of Hillary, following the wording of her campaign. As far as I recall it the New York Times endorsed the Iraq Invasion, too.
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I'm an Obama guy
Look, I defended Clinton with gusto and self-righteous fury while he was in office and ever since. I am still pissed off at those pricks in the Republican Party who wasted our time and money conducting their unending fishing expedition and ridiculous impeachment.
But you know what? Lately, I really am starting to get sick and tired of Bill and his sanctimonious attitude. If I have to look at that goddamn index finger wagging at me one more time I'm really gonna lose it.
Bill is running a retrograde campaign in the party of the progressives. I'm starting to feel the same animosity I had for Scoop Jackson and Richard Daley, those pricks. Bill can campaign for Hillary...I'm fine with that. But he needs to change his tone of voice and his choice of words. Otherwise, he will destroy his legacy in the Democratic Party. Hillary should either win or lose based on what Hillary's candidacy represents, despite my fervent desire that this sick and obsessed celebrity culture cast aside dynastic succession. As an Obama guy, I don't hate Hillary, and I even respect those qualities that the NY Times points out as worthy of presidential stature.
But with Hillary, it's not back to the future, it's onward to the past. Barack is a wonderful political historian, and he's right about 2008. This is a 1960 election. We were lucky to have JFK in the room during the Cuban Missile Crisis; Nixon's presence there could have doomed humanity. The old-style thinking of Hillary Clinton is not what this country needs. Biden said Obama was "fresh". Yep. We could use a little freshness right now as we face the most awesome decisions in human history.
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I look Backward too, with longing and fond memories for when Bill was in the White House
Quite frankly, I tend to think the Clintons have been truthful with their criticisms of Mr. Vague, who likes to say the Clintons are dishonest. But at the first hint of trouble, he cries racism. I have yet to hear ANYTHING the Clintons have said done to be racist. What a slimy accusation. Who is being "inaccurate" there? Speaks volumes about who Obama really is.
It has also been really tired to hear Shapiro's biased mantra rehashing the media's predictable and endless slander of all things Clinton. Get over it people. So they don't have a conventional marriage. So the man got his dick sucked and is still not contrite and she didn't care enough his litte indiscretions to leave him. Like attracts like. They both happen to be brilliant and I hope to GOD he has a hands on role when she gets the White House and is in her ear. My life was good in the Clinton years. I made money and the country was at peace and the consitution had yet to be ravaged. Bring back the good old days!
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Rat-a-tat-tat
You know, for all of the energy the media (including Salon) has spent talking up the "rat-a-tat-tat" attacks between Obama and Clinton, I can't help feeling like I'm living in some Alice in Wonderland fantasy when I actually read the quotes. In this story, the only actual Bill Clinton quote was strictly about his wife and what she could achieve. It didn't even mention Obama! Where in the world are these terrible assaults on each other that we keep reading about, but which mainstream media providers are seemingly incapable of providing? Frankly, having seen the debates and read the quotes, I can't help but feel that this has been one of the tamest political seasons in living memory. When Obama Swift Boats Clinton, or when Clinton claims that Obama has an Asian baby born out of wedlock, then we can talk about rat-a-tat-tat. Until then, let's keep some perspective.
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A good, even hand piece
I wish some other people would follow the writers example.
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Looking back
From what I can gather, there are only minor policy differences between Senators Clinton and Obama. The major differences aseem to be between their governing philosophies.
If this election is a guide, Sen. Clinton is more likely to govern relying heavily on a shrinking partisan base. This approach was used by both the Clinton and the Bush administrations and lead to the implosion of their corresponding parties.
Sen. Obama is is appealing to a broader slice of the political spectrum, and so far he brought to the political discourse people turned cynical by the political process.
For me one of the miracles of this election cycle is the substantial increase in the participation of young voters, and Obama is to be "blamed" for this.
We are entering a new stage in World history, for which the old paradigms of the 20th century are ineffectual. New blood and ideas are needed and I do not see the Clintons being that successful in this regard.
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Bill is stuck in the past...
And Walter Shapiro's head is stuck in his butt.
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"Barack is not cautious yet" - Michelle Obama
In her VANITY FAIR interview, Michelle Obama appeared to think that lack of caution is a plus in a Presidential candidate. When she added that her husband, Barack Obama, is ready to change the world my instinct was to plead "Oh, not again". The world has had more than enough of the United States riding roughshod over any country it chooses, with the catastrophic consequences so evident today. On the other hand, perhaps Mrs.Obama thinks that the US is "the world", a belief that seems to have many Americans by the scruff of the neck. I have no idea whether Michelle Obama has ever lived anywhere other than Chicago. If her entire life has been lived in the United States, global statements seem very presumptuous but, then, Hillary Clinton's oft-cited sense of entitlement is more than matched by Michelle Obama's in telling readers that if her husband is not elected the Obamas are not hanging around. You don't have to take my word for this as you can read the article yourselves. Above all the din, the harangues, the claims and counter-claims, it seems to me that the Democrats are in a sorry state. "Being cautious" is reprehensible and so the obvious conclusion is that impulsiveness, even recklessness, is admirable. In a lover, maybe, but not in a President. Btw, the "world" is sick and tired of hearing about Bill Clinton's sexual proclivities. If he lived in Saudi Arabia he could have a harem. It's an old story, done to death, and "the world" (at least the European "world") is not mesmerised by the Bill/Monica story as some salacious Americans seem to be.
I love a touch of whimsy and I'm sure you do too as it alleviates the burden of race, religion, gender, age so I dedicate these lines from Edward Lear to all those followers of Michelle and Barack, who believe that they are the bee's knees and the thrush's ankles:
"They dined on mince and slices of quince,
which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon."