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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
the problem with American Politics is that you only get losers who couldn't make it in the real world - and then they have to take these sh...y jobs!
I added a post explaining the error I made in addressing my letter to that other guy(s) instead of you. My bad.
I am not so sure it matters who created this phenomenon I perceive so much as it matters who embraces it. I think you make an excellent point when you suggest that the phenomenon is generational to some extent. Today's young American women are brought up with a sense of entitlement, even of divinity, in my opinion, and yes Disney and all the other agents of non-sense and fantasy do play a part. We, you and I, are perhaps not perceiving the same reality, which is not unusual when it comes to the perceptions of two individual Human beings.
I do however stand by my assessment and will continue to observe the situation. And rest assured, if I run into any guys proclaiming themselves Princess I'll be sure to tell them how absurd I think they are.
By the by, I did a myspace people search of the term Princess and there were over 8 million examples, far too many for my taste. I did the same search for the word Prince and there were only 500 examples. I cannot help but think this is relevant and informative.
to exclude Obama (the problem with American Politics is that you only get losers)
Is back in the house
A brand new alias
For the same 'ol stank ass mouse
This past election is not evidence that liberalism is on the rise or that conservatism is waning. Conservatism is and has been since the early 80s in the DNA of most Americans.
Evidence for this abounds, including:
(1) Even so called liberal Democrats present themselves as opposed to taxes.
(2) As someone in another Salon forum said, Democrats had candidates in the primary to the left of Obama and did not choose them.
(3) Gay marriage initiatives failed and much of that failure was due to opposition by blacks and hispanics, two key Democrat constituent groups. Those groups are unlikely to support San Francisco, white, liberal social policies.
(4) The blue collar Democrats who voted for Obama do not support gun control--one of the left's goals.
(5) Many of the Democrats elected in the House and Senate ran on platforms ranging from moderately conservative to conservative. How many of them ran as liberals and won? Any?
(6) John McCain, with all he had going against him as the GOP candidate, still received 46% of the vote. That, more than anything else, suggests just how conservative the majority of Americans are.
As a side note, how about places like Yale University, who accepted George Bush purely as a "legacy" student, thus allowing him to begin failing his way up to the presidency? The same could be said of Annapolis and their acdeptance of the unbelievably unqualified John McCain. These family-based acceptance decisions become foundational resume builders for completely undeserving and unqualified people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Frelinghuysen_(1753-1804)
Frederick Frelinghuysen (April 13, 1753 – April 13, 1804) was an American lawyer, soldier, and senator from New Jersey. A graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), during the American Revolutionary War he was an officer in the New Jersey militia and served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1793 until 1796, and served as a U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey in 1801.
Among his descendants are
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885) US Senator and Secretary of State;
Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (1869-1948) US Senator from New Jersey;
Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (b. 1916) New Jersey Congressman;
and Rodney Frelinghuysen (b. 1946) New Jersey Congressman.
- - Wikipedia
Some other prominent politicians who benefited from family ties:
Al Gore, son of Albert Gore, Sr., U.S. senator
Evan Bayh, son of Birch Bayh
Mark Udall and Tom Udall, sons of Morris Udall, U.S. Senator
Mary Landrieu, dtr. of former mayor of New Orleans
Nancy Pelosi, dtr. of U.S. Congressman and former mayor of Baltimore
Kathleen Sibelius, dtr of former governor of Ohio
Hillary Clinton, wife of former President
There may be quite a few more, because I actually don't follow political family dynasty's closely and I am aware of so many.
This past election is not evidence that liberalism is on the rise or that conservatism is waning. Conservatism is and has been since the early 80s in the DNA of most Americans.
It seems to make many conservatives and Republicans feel better to keep announcing how beloved they are even as their party and their movement disintegrates into ashes. Keep telling yourselves that. I don't have much incentive to try to talk you out of it.
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That first time blogger is a Easter Bunny.
He so obese and funny. Offspring think?
Thee Easter Bunny is obese. Nasty? Hops.
Blogger comments make obese belly pop.
The Easter Bunny and Santa belly jiggled.
Oy! say:`Thumper and Bambi are necrotic.
Who killed thee deers? If a head is lopped?
It's a good idea to practice a smile. O Role?
Roll up Capital Hill on a stinky scats board?
As always, great analysis. I wish I could add to it.
Yet there is one thing someone else mentioned. A lot of wealth is arrayed behind many of these elected people. So when a son or other relative is capable of stepping into the same shoes, that money and power is there to help them along.
Clarence Brown Sr, passed his seat to Jr, which then passed to Mike Dewine. Dewine, who has a son and cousin in state offices, made it into the Senate by defeating the son-in-law of Howard Metzenbaum. That particular nepotistic trail ended when Sherrod Brown removed him from the Senate.
There are lots of other examples and it's not only nepotistic, it's almost downright incestuous. If there were a political version of the song "I'm My Own Grandpa", it would have been written in Ohio.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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