28 posts tagged “clinton”
We began our presidential primaries with a tremendous showing of how much our country has advanced. We had a female candidate, an African American candidate, a Mormon candidate, an actor as a candidate, a candidate who is advanced in years, and a bunch of other people.
But, somewhere our great nation took a left when we should have taken a right (not the revered of course).
There was the issue of Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor that brought out this huge race issue and revealed to the world that as a nation we have ignored and never closed the door on our ongoing race issues dealing with people of African heritage and/or their deep resentment of their treatment at the hands of the laws and people of this nation from it’s inception.
Then we revealed to the world that with all of our pious talk of equal opportunity for women in our country and how advanced we are in terms of gender equality there was suddenly a rush of both accusations and some demonstrations of chauvinism and hyper-feminism. This showed the world that we are clearly not as far along as we let on.
Then we decided it was time to demonstrate to the world that we had no dignity or class at all. We suddenly saw images of members of our senate who were realistic hopes for leadership of our nation using such things as bowling, taking shots in bars and chugging beer, and describing our nation as people who cling to religion and guns because we are angry used as serious campaign strategies.
On the Republican side there was this McCain fellow, another prominent member of our Senate, stating that the American people were basically on their own and the government would do nothing to help (probably not exactly what he meant, but that was what came out of his mouth) and that the solution would be a “Gas Tax Holiday” which was immediately reamed by economists and the media worldwide.
And, let us not forget the images we saw on Martin Luther Kings birthday of Senator McCain somewhere in the south in front of a largely African American crowd apologizing for having fought so diligently against any official acceptance of the Martin Luther King Holiday and trying to explain why he did with the background being a huge chorus of boos.
By this point, people the worldwide laid their only hope in the American public and the media to sort this all out.
Then the statistics and interviews started to pour out that either clearly stated or hinted to the fact that much of the population of our nation that votes, does so for the most ridiculous reasons imaginable. One of the most important positions a human being can hold on this planet and this person is chosen because he or she is: a woman, not a woman, is African American, is not African American, is like movie stars (such as Paris Hilton), is a “maverick” (which is synonymous with the word reckless in the minds of many the worldwide), a member of the party the individual is loyal to (no matter how ridiculous or idiotic the individual may be), and so on.
Now the entire planet is concerned with our election. Not only because it is definitely the best reality show on the planet, but I suspect that there is such concern because many around the world recognize the influence this position has in the world and there is a genuine concern that this years vote will be so screwed up that it may mark the beginning of the Apocalypse.
Then just when it seemed it could not get any worse, the conventions proved that to be just the beginning of the stupidity. There were great speeches and suddenly this woman shows up and describes herself as being like a pit-bull wearing lipstick (the hokey mom that said the only thing between hockey moms and pit-bulls was lipstick). Within a weekend the direction of the votes of the American people (according to the coverage) shifted into the direction of the person who is in reality only running for Vice-president.
I receive emails and responses to my blogs and from people around the world that show a deep concern and interest in our elections this year and the scary part is that the people in this nation are not that deeply concerned.
Over the last week the most important political conversation and coverage that was consistently heard had to do with putting lipstick on pit-bulls and pigs. Seriously folks, have we collectively lost our minds!
The conversations and correspondence I have had with people here has greatly discouraged and almost angers me. People here are acting like we are voting for who is the better football team. I am loyal to my team because they are from my area, they have more people like me, they have better media coverage, because they play a little dirty, they don’t play as dirty, they have better fans, etc.
Although there has been a lot of calls for the facts and less campaign nonsense the truth is when different forms of media have offered both the facts and the nonsense people have drawn in droves to the nonsense. No matter what people say as a group, the fact is that the nonsense and negative tactics have once again shown that they work as evidenced by the polls.
In one conversation I had, someone made a very good point: “You have to vote for someone so I guess you are going to have to do the best you can and vote for the lesser evil.”
At that point it hit me. It is like asking me to vote for the Apocalypse I would be more comfortable living through. Or maybe like the guy in the mafia movie about to be killed and asked by the guy about to kill him if he would rather be shot in the front of the head or the back.
The truth is that the entire planet is deeply interested in and can watch our government in action and we are blowing a great opportunity. I am not the only person who thinks we have a pool of the worst candidates we have ever had, there are many prominent members of the media and political community that agree. And have we all not seen the petty and childish actions that have been the basic normal operation of our government as a whole for the past few years. These things have doubled during this election.
If you are American, please take a second and imagine how all of this would look if you lived somewhere else. Is it any wonder that over the past few months all of the nations who hate us have ramped up the rhetoric and worldwide less and less people like us?
What is wrong with everyone? I keep hearing and reading peoples reasons for who they have decided to vote for and I have never been so disgusted in my life.
Let’s look at some of these reasons:
- Because Senator Obama is African American
- Because they do no think that the country is ready for an African American president.
- Because Senator Hillary Clinton would be the first woman president
- Because Senator Obama would be the first African American president
- Because Senator John McCain is a veteran like me
- Because I think Senator Obama is a secret Muslim
- Because I do not trust his wife (either Senator McCain or Senator Obama)
- Because he or she is too rich I will vote for another (has there ever been a poor president in say the past hundred or so years – how about ever)
- Because I feel he or she was rude to my favorite candidate I will do anything to spite them even vote for a candidate I don’t like.
- “I don’t give my vote on the first date.” “I need to be courted.”
- I don’t like him that much but I will never vote for a Democrat
- I don’t like him that much but I will never vote for a Republican
- The Republicans don’t like African American people
- The Democrats don’t like Christian people
And on and on the list goes on.
Where are ideas like: The most qualified, who will do the best job, who most represents your values? What we have is wild generalizations, wild accusations, bigotry of different sorts not the least of which is racism, spite, and ultimately stupidity.
How can any human being truly place wellbeing of our country, the lives of the people that live here including our children, the peace of the entire world and all of the rest of the spheres of power or influence that the president has into someone’s hands for such reasons.
People! Each one of our votes is precious and a presidential election is not a game of Monopoly with toy pieces, play property to buy and have taken by the bank, and play money. This is our lives involving real people, real homes in foreclosure, taken by real banks, and we are spending real money.
Even more astonishing is the fact that people are even so bold as to think it is okay to say these things publicly and even on television.
The entire planet is watching one of the most powerful nations in the world (the most powerful in the eyes of many) in the democratic process it has repeatedly told the world is the best system going. Then we show the entire planet this nonsense as the way we chose our leadership.
The facts are that we have two candidates that do not really represent anyone in any party. We asked for change and got confusion. We asked for non-partisan and we got people who really believe in nothing and stand for nothing.
They build a pretty good case for what they say they stand for, but the evidence is that they stand for nothing.
The fact that so few people even care to look that deep is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
I have come to a conclusion. If you vote for one of these stupid reasons, don’t vote, or vote in line with my biggest pet peeve; voting simply by party, you have no right to complain later no matter who is elected and what they do.
Here we are going into September, near the end of the Democratic Convention and the biggest rival Senator Barack Obama has is…Senator Hillary Clinton?
How can this be? How do the Clintons get more airtime and media attention than the nominee, Senator Obama?
I have to question how this man intends to unite the country and the world while he cannot even unify his own party. The independent voters and unsure Republicans in particular have a hard time thinking he can carry out anything if he cannot even get his own party behind his ideas.
The government is divided enough with two parties fighting and being childish without separating the members of one of those parties and in reality pitting three groups against each other in a fight to the death (although it is others that seem to do the suffering and dying while they sit on Capitol Hill playing games).
This potential scenario is quite scary. If that is the new Washington we are being promised, it is actually worse than what Washington is now. Tri-partisan politics under the president of a kingdom divided against itself.
In Senator Obama’s defense I have to admit two things.
The first is that while Senator Clinton has stated all of the right things over the past few days, she has been slow to undo the damage she did to Senator Obama in the brutal cage match that they had against each other.
A simple statement to the effect of: “I know I said that Senator Obama was not ready to lead or to beat Senator McCain, but the experience and growth both of us has had over the past few months on the campaign trail has made him obviously a far stronger candidate than he would have been without our brutal battle and things that were true than have been proven not to be the case now.”
That is the kind of political statement a person who was truly supporting a candidate would make. Her whole case over the past few days as to why we should vote for Senator Obama is that Senator McCain is such a terrible choice (not that I disagree, but it is not a very strong case for Senator Obama).
The second is that the diehard Democrats and Hillary Clinton supporters who seem to be holding out on Senator Obama all seem to be total wing-nuts whenever they are interviewed. I honestly tried to hear their case with an open mind but they sound so silly, petty, and spiteful that I cannot take them seriously.
This one lady I saw on Larry King yesterday named Elizabeth Joyce stated she was not ready to vote for Obama because she doesn’t “vote on the first date” and that he hadn’t “courted” her vote enough yet.
She basically stated that she wants to vote for the person most adept at behind kissing. Not whoever she believes is most qualified, will do the best job, who most represents her values, or even who is more likable, or any of that. She sat on national television as a representative of the progress and strength of women in 2008 and said the key to the votes of strong women like her was political foreplay (I personally think she just set the cause she represents back thirty to forty years in one interview).
This was not an isolated incident (although it may have been the stupidest that I saw). All of the people I heard trying to defend this stand basically made it clear they were making a political statement by not voting for Senator Obama. Most of them would state however that they felt he was a better choice than Senator McCain. A political statement? Who are these people who would throw away what they themselves believe to be better for the nation, the world, and all of us just to make some point.
This is the party Senator Obama is supposed to represent in his plan to unify and run our great nation and this is the result of his candidacy.
Whatever the reason is for how it happened, I am not finding a lot of hope in what I am seeing.
Recent comments by Charles R. Black Jr., a key advisor to Senator John McCain have sparked a firestorm that is being fanned by the Senator Barack Obama’s camp. Mr. Black merely stated that a terrorist attack during the campaign would strengthen Senator McCain’s presidential bid. The real question in this campaign is what idiot picks these advisors?
This year seems to be plagued with crazy remarks from crazy advisors, supporters, friends, and family members that completely undermine the candidacy of the person they are trying to support. Where are all of these people coming from and how can they be stopped.
I do have to wonder, in light of what I have seen throughout this year if any of the serious candidates for president (Senator’s McCain, Obama, and Clinton) have shown themselves unable to fulfill the office of president simply because they have no ability to appoint the right people, discern which people are good or outright stupid advisors, and control the crazy people that are otherwise involved in their lives.
If the campaigns of these three people are any indicator of what a presidency will look like, I certainly will pass.
A huge part of a presidency finds it’s foundations in whom the president surrounds himself or herself with and appoints to major positions that have influence over the entire planet. The people around the three serious candidates that we had been left with (now two) are amateurish (to put it politely).
The mistakes and stupidity seen this year are not old Washington politics they are best classified as armature Washington stupidity.
Once again, I assert that clearly non e of the aforementioned candidates is ready to be president for the next four years and we need a better candidate from somewhere.
Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are to begin campaigning together. The question is will this be a good thing for each one of them and for us who have to watch the whole thing. I am not sure it is the best thing for any of us.
First let’s look at how this is bad for Senator Obama. Having Senator Clinton on his side probably will greatly help him gain some support with female voters and add a strong counterattacking voice that will counter the strong attacks of Senator McCain’s camp.
The problem is that there is another part of the package that comes with a Hillary Clinton; former president Bill Clinton. Each candidate has their strange sideline person that in trying to help them just makes him or her look bad. There is a certain Mr. Wright for Senator Obama, Cindy McCain for Senator John McCain, and there is Bill Clinton for Senator Hillary Clinton.
Senator Obama has finally gotten past his and the memories are gradually dying and the effort by the McCain camp and particularly Senator McCain’s wife Cindy McCain to make Michelle Obama Mr. Wright’s replacement is failing.
Is the Obama camp sure it is ready to take on the burden of Senator Clinton’s anchor and husband Bill Clinton. After all they are married and he loves to get passionate about whatever he is supporting politically. The problem that has surfaced over the past few months is that he gets passionately stupid. Why would a candidate volunteer for more obstacles to overcome?
Next let’s look at how this is bad for Senator Clinton. She spent months tearing down the credentials of Senator Obama and convincing the entire planet that he would be one of the worst choices for president of the United States there has ever been. Her campaigning to the contrary confirms the suspicion that she is all rhetoric and she doesn’t mean half of what she says.
The fact is, that if an Obama presidency has half of the problems she stated it may have, it would be better for her political career to have distanced herself from him during the rest of this race and just announce that she is supporting her party’s candidate because she has to. This means if he is elected and all evil breaks loose, she can run four years from now as the “I told you so” candidate and possibly be the better choice for her party.
Finally let’s look at how this is bad for us. Clearly the campaign is going to get ugly. The McCain camp is starting off with a similar campaign mindset that Senator Clinton had; if you keep attacking Senator Obama he will crack (although this seems like the obvious right direction to go with the slight leads Obama has in many polls, it just failed for Senator Clinton). What is going to happen once the Clinton family are on the other side of this manner of campaign. The mud slinging war to end all wars and we have to endure it all. Smear tactics, attacks on family members, rude and often misleading adds, racial divisiveness from both sides, childishness, and on and on.
The worst problem with all of this will be the lack of genuine conversation about real issues and solutions to compare. We will be simply voting for who fights better, not who is the better candidate.
This is a two sided coin. Good in some ways and bad in some grave other ways
Just as everyone was beginning to hear a steady flow of media stating that it probably would not be a good idea for Senator Barack Obama to pick Senator Hillary Clinton as a running mate for the presidential elections the voters in the party have thrown a monkey wrench into the program. A CNN Opinion Research poll (which can be seen at - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/06/majority-of-dems-want-clinton-to-be-vp-2/) states that 46% OF Democratic men and 60% of Democratic women think Senator Clinton should be Senator Obama’s running mate. Overall 54% of Democrats polled think that Senator Clinton should be Senator Obama’s running mate.
This changes the equation a bit. If Senator Obama would like to get the vote of the women voters of his party, ignoring the fact that a majority of them (a small majority, but a majority none the less) feel that she should be on the ticket might give him a great deal of trouble later on.
The key to this is the next month or so. These numbers may move, the question is in which direction? If people get less interested in her that would seem to be a clear indication that she is not the person that should share the ticket and has lost some of her political appeal through all of the antics of the past few months.
On the other hand if those numbers go up in her favor, Senator Obama’s camp would be foolish to ignore a large voting segment of the party without being able to convince them there is a really good reason for doing so. The key word in that sentence is “convince.” His task would not be to find and have a good reason, it would be convincing that voting block that it is a good reason that they agree with.
I suppose that this would be a good trend to keep an eye on. Which direction will the voters go? Tune in next time, Same election time, same election channel.
I was thinking about our government and the stalemate that we are in and I thought of an analogy. What if the goal of the government next week was to screw in a light bulb.
Senator Obama would give an awesome speech about the equality of all light bulbs and discuss how he is going to get everybody light bulbs if elected.
A certain Mr. Wright would suddenly surface describing how different light bulbs are just different and how Senator Obama had to distance himself from him because of politics.
The media would find every tidbit that could sound strange to listeners from Mr. Wrights speech and play these clips over and over and discuss these clips over and over.
Senator Obama would again try to distance himself from this person.
Senator McCain would ask Senator Obama why he spent so many years in a church with such beliefs about lightbulbs.
Senator Hillary Clinton would have said that Senator Obama does not have enough experience to put in a light bulb and does not really have enough support to screw in a light bulb, but she has finally realized that she is not going to win the Democratic primaries. So now she will say that Senator Obama, her friend, is well equipped to screw in light bulbs. But, she continued to campaign because she felt the American people deserved the best light bulb screwer-inner person that there was and she is that person. The popular vote showed that the American people know who can better screw in a light bulb and voted that way.
Hillary Clinton supporters would say that the media stated that Senator Clinton could not do a good job of screwing in light bulbs because she is a woman and would want her to keep trying to stop Senator Obama from being the one to screw in the light bulb.
Former President Bill Clinton, would start calling members of the press scumbags and other names for the conspiracy against his wife and for using the light bulb as a tool to help Senator Obama get elected. He would later apologize but, Senator Hillary Clintons approval rating would take another hit anyway.
The media would have debates and talk show hosts would rip on different people for not getting the light bulbs in fast enough.
President Bush would tell congress to write a bill stating that the light bulb should be installed. Because the bill idea came from the President, the Democrats would say it is a terrible idea and try to draft their own, somehow different proposal. The Republicans will write a really long version of the bill and have it read aloud to the entire group to irritate the Democrats.
Senator McCain would say nothing about the President Bush idea (because he has to distance himself from the administration). The Senator would get in front of his green background with a small handful of supporters (trying to sound like more than they really are) and give a speech repeatedly saying that the kind of changing of light bulbs that Senator Obama wants to is not change at all. He would then give some reasons why the light bulb that was already there is fine and should stay and then screw up a perfectly good speech by saying it would be okay if the light bulb stayed in for a hundred years.
Senator Obama would reply by saying that Senator McCain just wants to keep changing the light bulbs with the same kind of light bulbs that President George Bush has been putting in which means that electing Senator McCain is just like giving George Bush a third term.
The media would just keep playing clips of Senator John McCain saying he would leave the light bulb in for a hundred years.
The Democrats would fight amongst themselves in drafting their own bill because of the carbon footprint of making the light bulbs and that the light bulbs create. There would be a huge debate on florescent light bulbs and the fact that their disposal is as big a problem as the footprint of regular bulbs.
The tree huggers will protest outside of government buildings demanding that the light bulb not be put in and that the light bulb is destructive (because they heard all of the news reports about the fight the Democrats were having).
I would take one look at all of this, freak out, turn on my computer and type a blog post. This post would talk about how stupid all of this is and how our government is broken etc.
In the end, the light bulb will not get put in. Everyone would still be fighting and the whole government would still be in a stalemate.
Where is (really who is) the person who would just take charge and put the light bulb in. The person who could do what is the best solution to the problem and rally the American people and the media to support what has been done. That person should be president and other like him or her should replace the people that are in our government at all levels.
This is the only way I could think of to describe how ridiculous all of the partisan politics that is going on at this point in history seems to me. There is a lot going on while at the same time nothing is really happening of substance and even less is getting accomplished.
What a Mess!
Our government is caught up in elections, partisan politics, and all other kinds of political blah, blah, blah. The problem is that there are no plans to help American Citizens with the troubles we are having now and our government on all sides is caught up in ridiculous distractions that do absolutely nothing for what is going on with American citizens here and now.
President George Bush did his best with the stimulus package, but by the time the checks are getting to people gas is well over four dollars a gallon and the massive amount of people that are unemployed or in fear of soon being unemployed cannot afford to spend their stimulus checks shopping on frivolous knick-knacks simply to stimulate our economy. This stimulus package was not a great idea and many of us knew it wouldn’t work the way that was planned, but at least it was some attempt at doing something.
President Bush today placed the blame for no other plans squarely on the shoulders of the “Democratic Congress” for not passing his other ideas such as making his tax cuts permanent.
The problem is that the parties are too busy with, ending primaries, preparing for presidential elections, global warming, fuel alternatives that will not be feasible for the average American citizen for five or six years, and so to be worried about such trivial matters as all of us loosing our jobs, spending every dime we have buying gasoline, and loosing our healthcare benefits.
This week we discovered that wealthy people who had good loans (as opposed to a sub-prime loan) were loosing their homes now also (the poster child for this is Ed McMahon of Publishers Sweepstakes and Tonight Show fame), unemployment is again breaking records (at 5.5% according to the Labor Department), the Dow Jones dropped over four-hundred points today, the NASDAQ dropped more than seventy-five points, oil prices broke the one hundred and thirty-seven dollar barrier but is now expected to go over one hundred and fifty dollars a barrel by the Fourth of July, houses are being foreclosed at record levels, the U.S. dollar is hardly worth the paper it is printed on and on and on.
I think I have figured it out, if everybody looses their houses and cannot afford to drive their cars, global warming will be reduced at record levels. The American Public as a whole will be homeless and angry but at least Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize will not have gone to waste.
Our government officials don’t have time to be worrying about what “drama-queen” Hillary Clinton is going to do. We are all eagerly awaiting the moment that she informs us that she has lost a race that we all know she has already lost (all except her and her advisors).
There is endless partisan bickering and finger pointing.
The Democrats are spending all of their time on global warming and trying to prove that the Bush regime did all kinds of secret evils. If he did or didn’t how is that going to help the economy or price of gasoline. The guy is in his last few months, the country is going to a place very close to hell (I suppose partially due to global warming) and more than half of our government is focused on being a lynch mob.
The Republicans are busy having President Bush blame the rest of the government for not pushing through his half-baked ideas (but I have to admit, at least there are some ideas) and the rest of the party is busy separating themselves from the President to try to get Senator John McCain elected.
Senator McCain first said that we should do nothing to help anyone, then he said to do mostly the same stuff that we are doing. Then his party comes out and says; “Well, the economy is not his strength.”
It is beginning to cost more to go to work than people are making, and after these people loose their homes and file bankruptcy, there will really be no need to spend more getting to work than you make when you get there and these people are going to start quitting and looking for government assistance (and unemployment that will be charges to the people they were working for). What then.
I don’t care for or about the parties. I do not care which one of these lackluster candidates becomes president. I don’t care quite as much about what is going to happen five or ten years from now when I have to be concerned if my family and I will survive this year.
I guess in Washington we are simply numbers and statistics unless you are a person running for office. When that is the case we get attention (in the form of lip service) for a few months and then we are again reduced to pawns in a huge game of numbers.
Both of the main candidates are Senators. I think the real race is to see which one can come up with something that can be done now (before that person is elected president or not) to help the American people.
Iraq is a war and clearly is not going anywhere in the next few months. Global warming is the evil to end all evils; I get it! But, it is going to be much more evil for me and my family if as the planet warms I am homeless. I understand that we want to preserve the wilderness and the beautiful places and protect these places from all of the evils of drilling. What is going to happen as the state and federal governments begin to loose funding to protect and maintain these areas because the gasoline is to expensive for their vehicles and they lay off the employees that didn’t already quit because it cost too much to get to work.
All of the stuff they are worrying about are lower on the priority scale and both the Democrats and the Republicans area doing nothing. The Democrats keep saying the Republicans are doing nothing about the economy, while they are doing nothing also. The Republicans are finger pointing because their harebrained ideas are being held up by the Democrats.
It doesn’t matter who is to blame, the question is who is going to actually do something sensible about what is going on here and now.
Imagine a person on a treadmill in workout clothes with a towel around his or her neck. That person has on fancy designer running shoes and has a fancy pants MP3 player. The only problem noticeable when the person is about to turn the treadmill on is that the person is facing the wrong direction reaching backwards to turn the thing on. What is going to happen?
Former president, Bill Clinton has again made himself the laughingstock of this year’s political campaign. This time by publicly throwing around words like; “scumbag,” “sleazy,” and “slimy” in describing former New York Times writer and current Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum who happens to be married to the former press spokesperson of his administration. This was done in response to a Vanity Fair article that stated many negative comments about the former president.
The first thing that crossed my mind in hearing his rant was the type of comments that were made by Republicans at the end of his administration to describe him.
As with all press related to presidents and presidential candidates for the past several years, I am not sure that I agree with all of the negatives I hear and take them with a grain of salt, but I find myself worried when press comes out saying that the former president had done something shady and he denies it.
My mind cannot help but remember how convincing he was when he made the, “I did not have sex with that woman speech.” I am sure we all remember how that turned out.
This tirade is just one more foolish outburst of several that have distracted from his poor wife is trying to do. She is a strong candidate (not my personal favorite, but a strong candidate none the less) and the biggest thorn in her side has been defending the random nonsense that emanates from her husband when he tries to help (and of course that hilarious nap he took behind the African American speaker during a speech on Martin Luther King Day).
Now, as the last of the primaries are winding down, the effects of his “helping’ his wife are coming clear. With the probability that the nominee from the Democratic Party will be Senator Barack Obama, the biggest reason anyone can give for why he may not or in some views should not try to persuade Senator Hillary Clinton to run as vice-presidential candidate on the ticket is the presence of her husband and supporter, former president Bill Clinton. He is seen as a political anchor of sorts that randomly drops and slows the progress of those he supports.
As president he did some good and some bad, but over the past few years he has focused on building a legacy that will have history remember him as an all around good guy who made a few mistakes.
How does this man in a matter of months reduce himself to a political outbreak monkey who poisons those he supports? I have mixed emotions about the content of the Vanity Fair article and the absence of names from those accusing him. The issue is that with the amount of negative pressure, threats, and the fear that some have that people have mysteriously disappeared around the Clintons and their dealings, I am not sure it is wise politically or for ones safety to give ones name to such accusations, true or not.
Regardless of the reason, the poised, confident, and seemingly friendly guy who ran for president successfully has been replaced by the political dead weight that is his current reputation and may turn out to be a huge part of his legacy from now on. History was just starting to remember him as a hero that any Democrat running for anything would be glad to have publicly support him or her. I wonder if he can get back on that track or if he is now forever marked as the mark of death to a campaign?
The Democratic Party’s activities from this weekend should be convincing evidence (when combined with the past few years of what has been done by the Republican Party) that the current party system and those in power cannot possibly produce a good presidency out of this year’s voting. We need someone else and that person is nowhere to be found.
Let’s slow down and backtrack a bit to the Democratic National Committee mess.
The Hillary Clinton camp has completely lost its mind with desperation and Senator Barack Obama’s camp and the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee are afraid to say so. The D.N.C. has agreed to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan but to only give them half votes. The problem is that the Democratic Party has continued to allow Senator Clinton and her camp to go on with the outlandish demands she makes publicly hoping to create a big enough push by her supporters to force the party to give in to her unreasonable ideas.
The wildest of stupid suggestions I have heard was the idea the Clinton camp proposed to the D.N.C. that Senator Obama shouldn’t get any delegates from Michigan because his name was not on the ballot in that state. Are these people serious.
Let me get this straight. These states decided they were not important enough in the primary process so they were going to move their primary forward (the ironic thing is that with all of the ruckus to move primaries forward last year the states that came last turned out to be the ones who became more important). Other states also had done the same which would make their move less impacting. These two states decided they would move their primaries in front of the other states even though they knew it violated Democratic Party rules. The Democratic National Committee informed these states that this was against party rules and would lead to the punishment of not having their votes count for the primaries. These states moved their primaries anyway. The D.N.C. stuck to its guns and its rules and did not allow the votes of these states to count with the approval of the candidates. The candidates agreed also, not to campaign in these states and in Michigan some of the candidates (including Senator Barack Obama) pulled their names off of the ballot all together in support of the D.N.C.’s decision.
Senator Clinton wins both states, but all of the candidates, including Senator Clinton had already agreed that the votes would not count. Then Senator Clinton turned out not to be the untouchable candidate that she had thought she was by loosing a string of primaries to Senator Obama. All of a sudden the Clinton camp begins redirecting her campaign efforts to promoting how unfair it is that these votes are not being counted and a focus on getting them counted in her favor. Her supporters begin to threaten the party saying if things don’t go her way they will vote for the most likely Republican candidate, Senator John McCain.
Why is this even still being discussed? If the party as a whole cannot make rules that they can follow amongst themselves what business do these people have running our country.
Ave you ever bee in a grocery store or some such place and observed parenting that looks like this. Little Jimmy, starts touching something little jimmy should not be touching. Mom or Dad or both tell little Jimmy to stop. Little Jimmy doesn’t listen and keeps touching. The parent or parents keep telling little Jimmy and then move to threatening little Jimmy. Let’s say its “Jimmy if you don’t stop I am going to drag you out of this store and spank you!” Little Jimmy keeps on and eventually breaks whatever it is. The parent says something like “Now look what you did Jimmy” and rushes little Jimmy to another isle and tries to act like it never happened. Guess what little Jimmy starts doing in the next isle? Of course, Little Jimmy starts touching more things.
Can our entire country be run like this?
Do not get me wrong, I think that the Republican party has shown clearly over the past few years that they are not capable of running this country, but now we are seeing the Democrats are no more capable than the Republicans. But, are we content with simply picking the lesser of the evils.
The current Democrats in power are clearly swayed far too easily by pressure from powerful people (like the Clintons) to ignore what is right. The vote to fully seat the delegates from Florida as voted in January received twelve votes for it and fifteen against. These twelve people are the problem. If there is a clear rule and several warnings that say if you do something so and so will be the consequences and within your own party you cannot stand your ground what kind of wishy-washy government would one led by such people turn out to be.
If Senator Obama is not a strong enough leader to stand up to this sort of nonsense and not only say it is wrong, but get the general public to see it and turn on Senator Clinton for being so ridiculous, he is clearly not ready to be president either.
Of course, it seems obvious, that the fact that Senator Clinton and her supporters act so much like spoiled children who will do anything to win demonstrates that the country needs few things less than it needs this crazy Senator and her folks in office.
I have maintained and will continue to maintain that when you look at the voting records of these candidates and the actions of the three candidates we are flooded with information about, none of the three are a good option. It is becoming clearer and clearer that a large percentage of the population is voting not for what is best for the country, but for some ideal represented by one candidate or the other regardless of if the person is crazy or will make a terrible president. Someone somewhere has to come up with a better option for the American People and the good of the country.
Our country and its people are in far to fragile of a time in history right now to be putting a crazy person who has no business in the White House into the position that will most determine what happens to us for at least the next four years because they simply are Republican, Democrat, Black, White, a woman, a man, a veteran, upper-class, middleclass, he or she drinks beer and shots, he or she bowls or doesn’t bowl, that person’s pastor is crazy or not crazy. We need to find the person who can take the reigns and do what is right from day one and is clearly not what either party has been doing for at least the past few years.
None of these three are that person!
