24 posts tagged “president”

In an interview with the Rocky Mountain News on Monday, Independent Party presidential hopeful (it is hard to type that without believing it should be followed by a punchline), Ralph Nader, made some very interesting statements. 

When asked what is different about Senator Obama relative to other democrats he has run against, he stated that the only difference was that Senator Obama is “half African-American.”  Oh yes he did.  He went there.

He also said that Senator Obama is trying to (are you sure you are ready for this, hold on to your chair) “talk white.”

Did a person running for president actually accuse another candidate of talking white?  Seroiusly? 

It is interesting that the other candidates have mostly relied on their supporters and spouses to say incredibly stupid things, but not Mr. Nader.  He doesn’t need others to do his “stupid” work, he is perfectly capable of doing that himself. 

This crazy candidate (I will avoid the other descriptive terms that come to mind) even took a shot at Jessie Jackson while trying to explain why Senator Obama is talking white.  He stated that one of the reasons he is talking white is (hold on, I have to compose myself) he doesn’t want to “appear like Jessie Jackson.”

Holy smokes!

Is this guy for real?  I seriously think he has come to believe that he can gain more support than he has gotten in past elections by getting the racist vote.

Remember all of the talk about voter who said race mattered in the elections mostly voting for Senator Clinton.  It seems he heard that and decided that being a racist was his best bet in trying to get support.

I have looked at comments on several blogs and some chats on the subject and this foolishness seems to have some support. 

As for me, a person who does not belong to political party, I have to say I hate to have to refer to myself as an independent voter for fear that I will be associated to such an person (I’m being politically correct and nice instead of using many of the other descriptive terms that come to mind for this person). 

Just to leave us with a thought, what exactly are the implications of saying that a person of color or of mixed origin can attempt to “talk white?” 

Is he referring to that fact he does not use slang or “Ebonics” or sound like any of the rap stars on the television.  That would mean that he is saying that those who are white and “talk white” are okay in sounding educated, but any person of color or mixed origin who “talks white” is faking it to distance themselves from someone (as Mr. Nader implies) as stupid as Jessie Jackson or other persons of color.

Is he saying that “talking white” speaks of people who have money and that he is avoiding talking about those in the inner cities and poor neighborhoods of our country.  As if there are no people of color in these better neighborhoods and only people of color live in poor areas and inner cities. 

Need I go on?  How dare anyone who is not a publicly proclaimed racist support this man.  This is an assault on our sensibilities and the Independent party has a responsibility to all of us who call ourselves Americans to pull the plug on this racist madman.

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. 

President George Bush is pushing congress to allow the big oil companies to drill more in places that are protected from drilling currently.  When I hear proposals to allow major oil companies to do more of something from a politician that has much of his wealth and support coming from the oil industry I am a bit skeptical. 

In truth I do not agree with much of the bad press that we are forced to endure about the current president, but it is illogical to think that oil and gas prices would be his strength. 

To me seeing President Bush tell me how to solve the oil problems we are now having is a bit like having Osama Bin Laden on video telling me how to catch Al Qaeda troops. 

The other problem with his proposal for more drilling is when this would help us.  Every solution I seem to see for the oil crises and in reality from my perspective gas prices is a long term solution that will take seven to ten years to begin to see any results. 

As an average person I have one bottom line question:  If the congress allowed all of this drilling, when would the gas prices change?  In thinking this proposal through, I am not sure the prices would change if this is the only factor.

The truth about all of this is that if the oil companies can continue to charge more for gas and other oil products, why should they charge less?  In other words, if the United States produced more oil, what guarantee is there that the prices would go down a whole lot? 

To bee honest, the only guaranteed positive from more drilling on our soil that I can see is less dependence on foreign oil.  We seem to depend on too many countries that either doesn’t like us or that there is evidence that they secretly don’t like us.

The fact that this proposal has President George Bush as it’s face man does not help the cause for me because his family, his state, and his support base seems to gain the most from this and seem to possibly be the ones that may be gaining the most now.

I see the need for some more drilling here, but it seems obvious to me that more, less, or the same amount of drilling here will not effect me at the pump at all and the people who are standing to gain from this are trying to tell me it will. 

Why is the president or anyone spending more time on solutions for right now rather than on solutions for the distant future that will have minimal effect if any at all?  I suppose I should just wait for ten to twenty years and see if we get the alternative fuels worked out so that something is a reasonable alternative while hoping that somewhere there is a level off point to the price of gasoline and it does not just keep rising all of that time.

As for the president speaking on solving an oil crisis, I think this president should have a spokesperson, possibly an economist of some form, speak for him as it would be a little more believable to me.

Senator John McCain and his advisors finally picked a subject to attack Senator Barack Obama with that actually helps his campaign.  Until now the topics Senator McCain’s camp has been addressing seem to only be targeted at getting approval from those who are already his strongest supporters already.

Senator McCain went before small business owners and said flat out that Senator Obama is bad for business.  As Senator Obama is speaking of tax breaks for the general population and increasing taxes on businesses (the latest example is big oil) Senator McCain is speaking to the businesses saying:  “Hey!  This means more taxes for you and less profit!”

This serves to make all of the rhetoric about how to fix he economy look a lot different to American business owners. 

Another smart benefit that Senator McCain gets from this ploy, is that while Senator Obama has been a campaign contribution machine that has been getting millions of dollars from lots of small contribution s from lots of donors this starts massaging the large donors that are largely untapped by the Obama campaign.  This says, “I am the candidate that will give you return on your investment in me” to the business owners.

This appears to finally be the real start to Senator McCain’s serious campaigning as much of the rest of what has transpired from his camp over the past few months seemed to be just killing time until real campaigning started.

There is however, another side to this coin.  There is the risk of appearing to be the “Same Old Washington” candidate who steals from the poor to buy support from the rich.

Senator Obama responded to Senator McCain’s accusations by discussing things like three-hundred billion dollar tax breaks and loopholes for big corporations and the wealthiest Americans to start to show this as the nest wave of media we will be hearing. 

I have to admit, that while I agree that we need businesses to stay open or there is no economy, I do have to wonder if it is not rewarding businesses and the rich while hanging the general population out to dry in the hopes of saving the economy.  Maybe, something in between the rhetoric of the two camps is much more realistic.

As I have repeatedly stated that I am not a big fan of either of these candidates much in terms of becoming our commander and chief.  The thing is, if I am going to end up casting my vote for the lesser evil, for lack of a better choice, I would like to know that there was a good campaign that dealt with real issues.  Like the ref before a boxing match I want to see a good clean fight.  I do not just want one candidate to just pummel the other one in the media and at the ballot boxes.

This is finally a good and sensible start to Senator McCain’s campaign against Senator Obama although it is very risky and may backfire.  I think it is also good that actual issues for right now have come to the surface for discussion. 

I hope to hear more about different sides of the issues (including both candidates’ strange voting records that seem to contradict their campaign rhetoric) and less about the candidate’s friends and distant acquaintances. 

Maybe the real campaign has finally has begun at last.

What is going on in the presidential race?  Democratic Senator Barack Obama went at republican Senator John McCain with both guns blazing in discussing the economy and I began to think:  “Finally, we will get to the real issues.” 

Boy oh boy was I mistaken.  I was all ready for Senator McCain (who is now known for being weak on matters of the economy at the worst time ever for that to be the case) to get with his advisors and start devising strong solutions for our economic woes.  Then I pictured this huge back and forth campaigning where two different plans that would both make some sense would be brought before the American people and we would all be thinking; “Wow, what great candidates.”

This however, was not what happened.  Senator McCain went back to that absolutely stupid “Gas Tax Holiday” idiocy that helped us all understand economy was not his strength.  Then Senator Hillary Clinton supported it also and some of the cooties of being economically illiterate seemed to get on her and her campaign.

I thought; “That’s it?  All of those campaign strategists and speechwriters and whoever else in his political entourage and that is it?”

But, no it was not.  Then he went back to this town hall meeting idea.  I admit it is a pretty cool idea, but seriously, one candidate is just going to dictate how another candidate is going to campaign for the entire summer and this other candidate is expected to just agree and go along with this?  (Is this one of those places where people on the internet us the letters “LOL?”

I personally believe that both candidates that are left from the two major parties have these gaping holes in their qualifications for president (particularly saying lots of things that neither of their voting records support), but if this is the best Senator McCain can come up with against a person with a gift for speaking and a charisma that attracts so many, Senator McCain will be reduced to a straw man for Senator Obama to knock over.

If there are any advisors to Senator McCain reading this, please gather some experts on the economy and draw up something substantial that will appeal to the public. Then spend some time educating Senator McCain on this plan.  Once that is done release him on the public with these fresh new ideas and a solution to a real problem in the here and now.  That will make him a solid candidate and definitely make the race more interesting.

I suppose Senator McCain may have such plans and be keeping them hidden is his grand plan to unleash this weapon of mass destruction on Senator Obama during these town hall meetings, but let’s face it, that is not going to happen.  An I am not sure if it were to happen that the results would be what Senator McCain expects.  I remember a debate between the Republicans that was televised on CNN that had an approval meter that was on the screen the whole time.  The relevant fact here is that almost every time Senator McCain spoke the meter shot down.  That went double when he got excited or agitated.

I think to win, Senator McCain better come up with more than the stuff he has put out there so far.

If Senator McCain does not retool his message, this will be one of those really boring elections where one candidate just sinks fast as soon as the votes start to be cast.  Today I was aghast at his lack of anything to say and found his whole message just plain boring.  

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?

What started as Senator John McCain’s campaign strategy has become another interesting diversion from the problems here in America. 

It seems that a huge platform that Senator McCain is going to run on is foreign policy.  Over the past few weeks a new race card has been pulled by Senator McCain; the Jewish/Israeli card.  Over the past couple of weeks reposts of Senator McCain’s attacks on Senator Obama in front of largely Jewish crowds have set up another diversion from the core issues. 

I understand the question of foreign policy but speaking to Iran’s government or not is not the key issue on American’s minds.  It is a valid issue but, there are much bigger fish to fry. 

The fact that this argument is playing out in front of Jewish crowds is incredibly divisive and I find it to be an effort (which may not be intentional) to create one more racial divide within our country and this election season.  He is using people (in this case the Jewish population) to divide and conquer the nation. 

Now, Senator Obama has to address this issue with the Jewish community also.  Although this is a very valid issue, we here in America are loosing our jobs, can’t afford to put gas in our cars, and are loosing our medical programs due to cost.  Our government is trapped in a war with no plan on how and when we will be finished (I do not believe in the immediate pull out ideas, but I do believe in solid plans not possibly this, that, or a hundred years).

I am also one of those people who believes in tough diplomacy, but this not talking to folks for decades and decades is clearly a stupid failed idea.  Look at our relations with neighboring Cuba.  How long have we been practicing this kind of diplomacy with this tiny little island that is our neighbor and have achieved nothing. 

How many people are we not going to talk to anyway?  Cuba, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. and anyone else that challenges us in any way.  It is probably time to look at things a little differently at this point in history where worldwide people have begin to like us less and less, our currency is falling like a brick in water, and we have shown the world that our government does not know how to plan a was or handle bad press.

We might want to at least start these processes over and at least look like we are trying to do better in the eyes of the rest of the world, before the entire planet turns on us and we are left a huge disaster.

Talking to a resistant person may not achieve much, but doing nothing achieves even less and while we are in big financial and military trouble our sanctions (threats) are beginning to carry less and less weight. 

Imagine you are in elementary school and there is this large bully who is always threatening everybody.  All of a sudden, one day, a much smaller child decides to take the chance of fighting this person only to find that the bully cannot fight that well at all.  In the middle of the fight the bully yells too you, if you don’t come help me I am going to beat you up.  Now you think, if you cannot beat that little child up what do your threats mean to me.  What do you do the next day when that child comes to you and demands your lunch money or else. 

The point is, we are still a super power with nuclear weapons.  The problem is we do not know how to fight wars any more and will not use the nuclear weapons which reduces us to a paper tiger of sorts in many cases.  

I hate to admit it, but the rhetoric about “more of the same” is right in this case.

We need to look at new strategies for world diplomacy or move to a point where we are really as dangerous as we threaten.  We either do something different or become ready to really blow up some countries civilians and all.  I suspect that we are at a point in history where that second option will never fly so we are only left with finding a different means of working with other nations.  In other words we are not able to back up all of our tough talk because the American people and many of their representatives on Capitol Hill are not interested in backing these things up.

We can talk tough about sanctions against Iran and continuing them against an already impoverished Cuba and on and on, but how has this been working for us.  What exactly do we threaten the oil producing section of the world with?

This is not about one candidate or another, I am just trying to state that I think it is time to rethink our foreign policy (particularly relative to those nations that we consider hard to deal with) and realize that we are not the same power that we were fifty or sixty years ago.  We cannot keep doing what we did forty or fifty years ago (which in some cases didn’t work then).

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?