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Democratic Convention Musings
Maybe I'm the only one but I wasn't all that impressed by Michelle Obama's speech on Monday night. The speech was fine and she did a good job delivering it (although i could have swore I saw a bit of teeth clenching in some of her delivery) but she just seemed to be so muted. Love her or hate her the Michelle Obama who we were introduced to in the early days of this election cycle was a strongwilled woman with a good bit of character to her. Of course she was derided by people because this country has a very antiquated idea of how a first lady should behave...its all pearls, plastered on smile and demure attitude. I was hoping to see a bit more Theresa Heinz Kerry and less Mrs. Bush ( pick one it really doesn't matter). I guess this is the game that must be played to keep people from being afraid of the "angry black woman".
Rep. Dennis Kucinich gave a rousing speech on Tuesday afternoon/evening. He said all the things you would expect in a Democratic Convention speech (and had been missing up till this point): how much Bush has sucked, how much McCain does suck, a little cheerleading for the current nominee. But no one saw it because Dennis was exiled to the early evening/late afternoon shift while the Mr & Mrs Walking Dead Mark Warner and Kathleen Sibelius) were trotted in primetime to bore the assembled masses into a catatonic state. We can all agree that Dennis is funny looking but the guy deserves better than he gets from his own party.
So the anouncement of Joe Biden has given no hint of a bounce to the Obama campaign which doesn't surprise me. For starters Biden is the antithesis of everything that Obama has built his political persona on. He's been in the senate since forever, he voted for the Iraq War and under his time on the Judiciary Committee we got not only Alito and Roberts (both of whom Joe seemed to glefully let pass through to the high court) but he totally frakked up the Clarence Thomas hearings. But those greatest hits aren't the biggest reasons why Biden is a horrible choice.
Nope, the main reasons Biden sucks is that he is a whore for the banking/credit card industries in his home state and to show just how big of a whore he wrote the horrible Bankruptcy Bill that sticks it to the regular people who try and file for bankruptcy while making it easier than ever for corporations to do the same thing. So the pick of Joe Buiden just makes me envision Joe doing for the credit cards and banks what Dick Cheney did for the oil industry...namely giving them carte blanche to rewrite laws as they see fit. You can't attack McCain on being horrible for working class folks when your running mate has already tried to fuck them in the ass with no lube.
Then there is the fact that Joe Biden seems to have a colossal hardon for any draconian "tough on crime" legislation that he can dream up. Joe is the genius who wrote the law that got Tommy Chong locked up for a year. In Biden's world the way to win the "War on Drugs" is to create more and more strict laws that really amount to jack shit. You'd think that a guy who has been around as long as Joe (he coined the term "Drug Czar") would have realized by now that harsher penalties and longer jail sentences isn't the answer to fixing the drug problem in this country.
Add to that Bidens recorded history of sucking at the teat of John McCain, lets count the ways Joe has allowed himself to be teabagged by McCain:
Calls McCain his personal hero
Said he would be honored to be McCain's running mate
Said that the Iraq War would have been successful if Bush had listened to McCain
As recently as this past April Biden praised McCain's foreign policy skills
Praised McCain's leadership on the global warming issue
And I'm sure all of this stuff will come up when Joe goes into attack dog mode during the rest of the political season which will sorta neuter his effectiveness.
For the past few weeks all the focus of this election has been on whether or not Hillary Clinton was doing enough to help Obama win.
"Her body language is off", "Her eyes give her away", "She isn't speaking enthusiastically enough". "She's plotting against him so she can run again in 2012".
Boo fucking hoo.
It seemed like the groundwork was being layed to blame Hillary Clinton if Obama didn't win in November.
This despite the fact that Clinton has done more than any other loser in Democratic Primary history for the winner.
She endorsed almost immediately after conceding, she has campaigned with and for Obama and she gave a rousing stump speech on his behalf at the convention. Let's compare that to recent losers:
At the 88 Convention Jesse Jackson threatened to have his name entered into contention for the vice-presidency which would have forced a floor fight and during his speech Jesse never endorsed Dukakis by name.
In 1992 Jerry Brown put his name into nomination at the convention, seconded his own nomination and went on to give a speech where he didn't even mention Bill Clinton let alone endorse him. One of Brown's best quotes during the election was that "supporting Clinton was like buying a ticket on the Titanic".
And let's not get started on how big a douchebag Ted Kennedy, the most revered elder statesman of the Democratic Party and the Lion of the Senate, acted when he lost to Jimmy Carter. He had poor Jimmy chasing him all over the convention arena trying to get a picture of the two of them shaking hands to no avail.
Well last night Clinton took the stage and delivered the most effective stump speech on Obama's behalf
that I've seen since this whole thing started. She hit every beat that she needed to: recognized her supporters as well as her own impressive showing, implored her supporters to back Obama and took direct shots at McCain (and Bush too!). She looked presidential. At the very least she looked vice-presidential.
So now the ball is in Obama's court where it should have been all along. No one is obligated to vote for him and as the candidate it is Obama's job to convince people that he is worth voting for...no one else can be blamed for any failures in this campaign except for the Obama camp themselves. Win or lose the credit or blame goes to Barack Obama.
And for all of those who have been wishing and hoping for Hillary to "just go away", well sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but she has positioned herself to be the "Lioness of Senate" in the Democratic Party. She is incredibly popular with her base and her performance last night has won her even more converts. She's not going anywhere.
Joe Biden is the "featured" speaker tonight since he formally accepts the vice-presidential candidacy but in all honesty no one really gives two shits about what Biden is going to say. Instead all of the attention will be focused on Bill Clinton. No one knows what the hell he plans on talking about tonight but after seeing how Hillary performed last night I think it is a safe bet to say that Bill will kick copious amounts of ass when he gives his speech. Hopefully he'll follow his wife's lead and give a full throated endorsement of Obama just to silence the completely asinine critics who can't seem to understand why Clinton has seemed a bit cool towards Obama. I guess they don't understand why Bill would need a little time to get over having his presidency (the only two term Dem president since FDR!) shat upon and being labeled a racist with the tacit approval of the Obama campaign.
One of the things I have always liked about Bill Clinton is that he has a hard time being disingenuous and this has especially become true since he left the White House. If he has hard feelings about something or someone then its right there for the world to see. In this current political climate where you can't tell one lying shit heel from another its kind of refreshing to have someone around who is pretty much an open book emotionally.
Say Hello To The Newest Stepford Wife
Maybe I'm the only one but I wasn't all that impressed by Michelle Obama's speech on Monday night. The speech was fine and she did a good job delivering it (although i could have swore I saw a bit of teeth clenching in some of her delivery) but she just seemed to be so muted. Love her or hate her the Michelle Obama who we were introduced to in the early days of this election cycle was a strongwilled woman with a good bit of character to her. Of course she was derided by people because this country has a very antiquated idea of how a first lady should behave...its all pearls, plastered on smile and demure attitude. I was hoping to see a bit more Theresa Heinz Kerry and less Mrs. Bush ( pick one it really doesn't matter). I guess this is the game that must be played to keep people from being afraid of the "angry black woman".
Frodo Baggins Leaves The Shire To Kick Some Ass In Denver
Rep. Dennis Kucinich gave a rousing speech on Tuesday afternoon/evening. He said all the things you would expect in a Democratic Convention speech (and had been missing up till this point): how much Bush has sucked, how much McCain does suck, a little cheerleading for the current nominee. But no one saw it because Dennis was exiled to the early evening/late afternoon shift while the Mr & Mrs Walking Dead Mark Warner and Kathleen Sibelius) were trotted in primetime to bore the assembled masses into a catatonic state. We can all agree that Dennis is funny looking but the guy deserves better than he gets from his own party.
Say It Aint Joe
So the anouncement of Joe Biden has given no hint of a bounce to the Obama campaign which doesn't surprise me. For starters Biden is the antithesis of everything that Obama has built his political persona on. He's been in the senate since forever, he voted for the Iraq War and under his time on the Judiciary Committee we got not only Alito and Roberts (both of whom Joe seemed to glefully let pass through to the high court) but he totally frakked up the Clarence Thomas hearings. But those greatest hits aren't the biggest reasons why Biden is a horrible choice.
Nope, the main reasons Biden sucks is that he is a whore for the banking/credit card industries in his home state and to show just how big of a whore he wrote the horrible Bankruptcy Bill that sticks it to the regular people who try and file for bankruptcy while making it easier than ever for corporations to do the same thing. So the pick of Joe Buiden just makes me envision Joe doing for the credit cards and banks what Dick Cheney did for the oil industry...namely giving them carte blanche to rewrite laws as they see fit. You can't attack McCain on being horrible for working class folks when your running mate has already tried to fuck them in the ass with no lube.
Then there is the fact that Joe Biden seems to have a colossal hardon for any draconian "tough on crime" legislation that he can dream up. Joe is the genius who wrote the law that got Tommy Chong locked up for a year. In Biden's world the way to win the "War on Drugs" is to create more and more strict laws that really amount to jack shit. You'd think that a guy who has been around as long as Joe (he coined the term "Drug Czar") would have realized by now that harsher penalties and longer jail sentences isn't the answer to fixing the drug problem in this country.
Add to that Bidens recorded history of sucking at the teat of John McCain, lets count the ways Joe has allowed himself to be teabagged by McCain:
Calls McCain his personal hero
Said he would be honored to be McCain's running mate
Said that the Iraq War would have been successful if Bush had listened to McCain
As recently as this past April Biden praised McCain's foreign policy skills
Praised McCain's leadership on the global warming issue
And I'm sure all of this stuff will come up when Joe goes into attack dog mode during the rest of the political season which will sorta neuter his effectiveness.
So Are Ya Happy Now?
For the past few weeks all the focus of this election has been on whether or not Hillary Clinton was doing enough to help Obama win.
"Her body language is off", "Her eyes give her away", "She isn't speaking enthusiastically enough". "She's plotting against him so she can run again in 2012".
Boo fucking hoo.
It seemed like the groundwork was being layed to blame Hillary Clinton if Obama didn't win in November.
This despite the fact that Clinton has done more than any other loser in Democratic Primary history for the winner.
She endorsed almost immediately after conceding, she has campaigned with and for Obama and she gave a rousing stump speech on his behalf at the convention. Let's compare that to recent losers:
At the 88 Convention Jesse Jackson threatened to have his name entered into contention for the vice-presidency which would have forced a floor fight and during his speech Jesse never endorsed Dukakis by name.
In 1992 Jerry Brown put his name into nomination at the convention, seconded his own nomination and went on to give a speech where he didn't even mention Bill Clinton let alone endorse him. One of Brown's best quotes during the election was that "supporting Clinton was like buying a ticket on the Titanic".
And let's not get started on how big a douchebag Ted Kennedy, the most revered elder statesman of the Democratic Party and the Lion of the Senate, acted when he lost to Jimmy Carter. He had poor Jimmy chasing him all over the convention arena trying to get a picture of the two of them shaking hands to no avail.
Well last night Clinton took the stage and delivered the most effective stump speech on Obama's behalf
that I've seen since this whole thing started. She hit every beat that she needed to: recognized her supporters as well as her own impressive showing, implored her supporters to back Obama and took direct shots at McCain (and Bush too!). She looked presidential. At the very least she looked vice-presidential.
So now the ball is in Obama's court where it should have been all along. No one is obligated to vote for him and as the candidate it is Obama's job to convince people that he is worth voting for...no one else can be blamed for any failures in this campaign except for the Obama camp themselves. Win or lose the credit or blame goes to Barack Obama.
And for all of those who have been wishing and hoping for Hillary to "just go away", well sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but she has positioned herself to be the "Lioness of Senate" in the Democratic Party. She is incredibly popular with her base and her performance last night has won her even more converts. She's not going anywhere.
Big Bubba, No Trouble
Joe Biden is the "featured" speaker tonight since he formally accepts the vice-presidential candidacy but in all honesty no one really gives two shits about what Biden is going to say. Instead all of the attention will be focused on Bill Clinton. No one knows what the hell he plans on talking about tonight but after seeing how Hillary performed last night I think it is a safe bet to say that Bill will kick copious amounts of ass when he gives his speech. Hopefully he'll follow his wife's lead and give a full throated endorsement of Obama just to silence the completely asinine critics who can't seem to understand why Clinton has seemed a bit cool towards Obama. I guess they don't understand why Bill would need a little time to get over having his presidency (the only two term Dem president since FDR!) shat upon and being labeled a racist with the tacit approval of the Obama campaign.
One of the things I have always liked about Bill Clinton is that he has a hard time being disingenuous and this has especially become true since he left the White House. If he has hard feelings about something or someone then its right there for the world to see. In this current political climate where you can't tell one lying shit heel from another its kind of refreshing to have someone around who is pretty much an open book emotionally.
The idiocy of Obama and McCain
(from Freedom and Reason)
United Statesians want to elect a Democrat, but they don't want Obama. He is again tied with McCain in the Gallup tracking poll. McCain is a gawd-awful candidate, yet he is running neck and neck with Obama.
Since they are allowing Hillary to put her name into nomination at the Democratic convention, it's an excellent opportunity for Democrats to do what they should have done in the first place: nominate Hillary.
The Democrats can save the country from four years of John McCain, but they have to switch support to Hillary Clinton first. If they do that, I will switch my vote from Nader to Clinton. If they don't, it's Nader all the way.
United Statesians want to elect a Democrat, but they don't want Obama. He is again tied with McCain in the Gallup tracking poll. McCain is a gawd-awful candidate, yet he is running neck and neck with Obama.
Since they are allowing Hillary to put her name into nomination at the Democratic convention, it's an excellent opportunity for Democrats to do what they should have done in the first place: nominate Hillary.
The Democrats can save the country from four years of John McCain, but they have to switch support to Hillary Clinton first. If they do that, I will switch my vote from Nader to Clinton. If they don't, it's Nader all the way.
Hillary should have said this
(from Freedom and Reason)
John McCain said it instead:
John McCain said it instead:
A few short months ago, Barack Obama outwardly opposed terrorist surveillance legislation, saying that he would filibuster any bill that includes immunity for American telecommunications companies that had been asked by the government to participate in the program. Today, the U.S. Senate will approve legislation providing the immunity Barack Obama supposedly opposed, and despite his promise, he will not support a filibuster. What Barack Obama will do is show that he's willing to change positions, break campaign commitments and undermine his own words in his quest for higher office.I am still hopeful that Hillary will vote against the bill.
Keith Olbermann Puts the Ass in Assassination
It has been pretty amazing to watch Keith Olbermann's transformation from an Edward R. Murrow wannabe to the liberal version of Bill O'Reilly. It is doubly amazing when you consider that despite the amount of time and effort Olbermann has extended criticizing O'Reilly, Keith was unable to keep from becoming everything that he supposedly found so repulsive about Bill.
Olbermann reached his nadir of journalistic hackdom with his ridiculously over the top lambasting of Hillary Clinton for daring to mention RFK's assassination in the context of an example of a campaign for the Democratic nomination that ran into June. In the new world that Keith inhabits Clinton was wishing and hoping for Barack Obama's death so she can win the nomination. Now the Keith I used to admire would have probably included the new, less improved Keith on his "Worst Person in the World" list for taking what Sen. Clinton said and completely twisting it to fit the disgusting meme that he did but this Keith Olbermann has become nothing more than a bloviating wind bag. It is obvious to anyone without an agenda and a brain in their head that Clinton wasn't inferring that "anything can happen" and that is why she is staying in the race or that Clinton was trying to put the spectre of impending doom on Obama's head as a way to change the mind's of super-delegates. It's too bad that the evidence clearly shows that Olbermann is brainless and consumed with a personal agenda.
It seems that as far as Keith Olbermann is concerned Hillary Clinton is evil incarnate and Barack Obama is humanity's last hope for survival. So Keith has been working tirelessly to harangue Clinton whether she deserves it or not while being the head cheerleader of the Obama Spirit Squad. He has transferred his anti-Bush bias to Hillary Clinton without skipping a beat.
The video of his not so special comment does provide a bit of entertainment though. Watching Olbermann lose control with spittle flying and veins bulging is kind of comical. Also his sense of outrage is downright hysterical. And his head seems to be growing as he gets more and more worked up.
But that tiny bit of funny doesn't make up for what Keith Olbermann has become. He fits right in with the O'Reilly's Limbaugh's and Savages of the world. Hell, I'd put that creepy little douchebag Glenn Beck ahead of Keith on the credibility meter nowadays. Here are Clinton's comments for those who need some context to Olbermann's hissy fit:
Yeah, that's worth getting your panties in a bunch over.
It has been pretty amazing to watch Keith Olbermann's transformation from an Edward R. Murrow wannabe to the liberal version of Bill O'Reilly. It is doubly amazing when you consider that despite the amount of time and effort Olbermann has extended criticizing O'Reilly, Keith was unable to keep from becoming everything that he supposedly found so repulsive about Bill.
Olbermann reached his nadir of journalistic hackdom with his ridiculously over the top lambasting of Hillary Clinton for daring to mention RFK's assassination in the context of an example of a campaign for the Democratic nomination that ran into June. In the new world that Keith inhabits Clinton was wishing and hoping for Barack Obama's death so she can win the nomination. Now the Keith I used to admire would have probably included the new, less improved Keith on his "Worst Person in the World" list for taking what Sen. Clinton said and completely twisting it to fit the disgusting meme that he did but this Keith Olbermann has become nothing more than a bloviating wind bag. It is obvious to anyone without an agenda and a brain in their head that Clinton wasn't inferring that "anything can happen" and that is why she is staying in the race or that Clinton was trying to put the spectre of impending doom on Obama's head as a way to change the mind's of super-delegates. It's too bad that the evidence clearly shows that Olbermann is brainless and consumed with a personal agenda.
It seems that as far as Keith Olbermann is concerned Hillary Clinton is evil incarnate and Barack Obama is humanity's last hope for survival. So Keith has been working tirelessly to harangue Clinton whether she deserves it or not while being the head cheerleader of the Obama Spirit Squad. He has transferred his anti-Bush bias to Hillary Clinton without skipping a beat.
The video of his not so special comment does provide a bit of entertainment though. Watching Olbermann lose control with spittle flying and veins bulging is kind of comical. Also his sense of outrage is downright hysterical. And his head seems to be growing as he gets more and more worked up.
But that tiny bit of funny doesn't make up for what Keith Olbermann has become. He fits right in with the O'Reilly's Limbaugh's and Savages of the world. Hell, I'd put that creepy little douchebag Glenn Beck ahead of Keith on the credibility meter nowadays. Here are Clinton's comments for those who need some context to Olbermann's hissy fit:
Transcript from the Argus-Leader's editorial board meeting:
HRC: People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.
Q: Why?
HRC: I don't know. I don't know. I find it curious. Because it is unprecedented in history. I don't understand it. Between my opponent and his camp and some in the media there has been this urgency to end this. And historically, that makes no sense. So I find it a bit of a mystery.
Q: So you don't buy the party unity argument?
HRC: I don't because again I've been around long enough.
My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it. There's lots of speculation about why it is.
Q: What is your speculation?
I don't know. I find it curious. And I don't want to attribute motives or strategies to people because I don't really know, but it's a historical curiosity to me.
Yeah, that's worth getting your panties in a bunch over.
Musings and Ramblings -- Part Deux
- First of all, I'd like to thank you for welcoming my pal, chatnoir to Mindsay. He is really interested in conversing with people about their political and world views. He says that he is more interested in the discourse than the actual posting of blogs, but being the
pushypersuasive person that I am, I keep trying to get him to realize that posting encourages discourse.
- Today is the day of the family meeting where my parents will officially announce they are getting divorced. *rolls eyes* . Have you ever wished you could just skip over certain aspects of your life? Geez us! My sister is planning on dodging the meeting. True to form, she will use the old avoidance technique. That strategy never worked for me because I was alway expected to do and put up with everything. It's the burden of the oldest female child isn't it?
- Ah yes, the good ol plant a diversion / divide and conquer strategy. Why do the Democrats always fall for this shit? John McCain is sure to win because A) We're so busy worrying about the words of someone NOT running for president. and B) Hillary Clinton supporters would rather vote for McCain out of spite than to vote for Obama if he gets the nomination and vice versa.
Pick up a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War Dummycrats! Duh! Get your heads out of your asses and wake the fuck up! However, I may be asking for too much. It's like watching a kid build a tower of blocks. No matter how many times you tell them they can't stack them that high, they keep doing it so you just sit and wait for the damn thing to collapse. If the Democrats lose the presidency this time, they only have themselves to blame.
- Poor Paula Abdul! Lawd have mercy! I think she may have an addiction to prescription drugs. If you noticed her performance on the video, "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow", she's hardly moving. It is a far cry from her "Straight Up" and "Forever Your Girl" days. I know she had some back problems, but how bad were they?
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