I just don't know how much of this we can take
Well, blame it on George W Bush. (God knows that we are hanging damn near everything else on the poor guy----he can't help that he is an idiot and a moron).
I am talking about the ugly attitude that is the Democratic presidential primary campaign. were George a bit shrewder politician, and so damned unliked by nearly everyone, the race for the Democratic nomination might not be seen as being tantamount to being elected, and we wouldn't have to start on all this crap until the day after Christmas....
Things out there are ugly. Hillary and Barack are at each others throats, by proxy of course, and the party on the left stands towards a very real danger of burning itself out well before 2008 even begins. They need to watch that a little bit. Hillary has the money, but she also carries the baggage of being, well, her. Barack has the charm and appears to be out in front at the moment, but he is still an unknown quantity and has many, many opportunities to screw up between now and the Iowa caucuses. Already, one candidate, Tom Vilsack, has quite the race. (We barely had time to google him, let alone learn to spell his name...). Time was, not too may ears ago, at this stage of the game, many of the really viable candidates hadn't yet declared their candidacies. he pointed out, correctly, that the race is all about the money. That leads me to reiterate that it might not make much of a difference who winds in '08, they all work for the same unseen boss.
But the real factor in the race this week is not being discussed too much. Al 'your pal' Gore is up for an Academy Award this weekend. Think about it, this may be one more as yet unrecognized step towards securing the eventual nomination. If the other players continue at this pace they will have flailed themselves to death by the end of the year, and then Al might be seen as the parties elder statesman, available to serve in whatever capacity the people may choose.
You may not have heard it here first, but I'll take the credit anyway.
This weekends tune goes out to special correspondent JB, who has been a bit under the weather, though we hope to see him back, wise-assing off again, soon.
I am talking about the ugly attitude that is the Democratic presidential primary campaign. were George a bit shrewder politician, and so damned unliked by nearly everyone, the race for the Democratic nomination might not be seen as being tantamount to being elected, and we wouldn't have to start on all this crap until the day after Christmas....
Things out there are ugly. Hillary and Barack are at each others throats, by proxy of course, and the party on the left stands towards a very real danger of burning itself out well before 2008 even begins. They need to watch that a little bit. Hillary has the money, but she also carries the baggage of being, well, her. Barack has the charm and appears to be out in front at the moment, but he is still an unknown quantity and has many, many opportunities to screw up between now and the Iowa caucuses. Already, one candidate, Tom Vilsack, has quite the race. (We barely had time to google him, let alone learn to spell his name...). Time was, not too may ears ago, at this stage of the game, many of the really viable candidates hadn't yet declared their candidacies. he pointed out, correctly, that the race is all about the money. That leads me to reiterate that it might not make much of a difference who winds in '08, they all work for the same unseen boss.
But the real factor in the race this week is not being discussed too much. Al 'your pal' Gore is up for an Academy Award this weekend. Think about it, this may be one more as yet unrecognized step towards securing the eventual nomination. If the other players continue at this pace they will have flailed themselves to death by the end of the year, and then Al might be seen as the parties elder statesman, available to serve in whatever capacity the people may choose.
You may not have heard it here first, but I'll take the credit anyway.
This weekends tune goes out to special correspondent JB, who has been a bit under the weather, though we hope to see him back, wise-assing off again, soon.
posted by eccentric recluse at 6:47 PM
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Who is this unseen boss that you think all the presidential candidates work for?
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the unseen bosses are those who hold the purse strings.
It has been seen in the BushCo empire, and is being seen in the Hillary campaign already.
No matter who wins, from either party, they are beholden to those who paid to get them there...
just my $0.02...
a story in the Arizona Republic today notes that Clinton, Edwards and Obama don't intend to accept matching funds, which relieves them of the obligations of fully disclosing their funding sources, as well as the limitations on spending that the matching funds law mandates.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0224gns-vilsack0224.html
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