it was bound to come to this
I just didn't think it would happen this soon.
The primary season is all but over. On the right, kudo's to the pachyderms for running, more or less, a higher level, (or maybe a less imaginative or less energetic) campaign than the jackasses on the left who are still engaged in the grade school tactics that usually mark election year tactics.
Against most odds, Barak Obama seems to be headed towards the winners circle on the left side of the field, much to the chagrin of the lady who has waited oh so very long for her turn. It is my opinion and suspicion that she will get downnright nasty in the next few months, turning what is left of the democratic race into a scorched earth battle for the ideological soul of the party. It seems to be the principle of the thing.
That is probably the big reason why she is not winning. (There are others of course, not the least of which is her surname and the reputation that she built in her last period of residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave).
Ideology. Mitt Romney has it. Fred Thompson seems to sweat it. Look where those guys aren't right now. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly have it. They would be great in a Broadway revue together, or in a travelling roadshow like the Blue Collar comedians, but they are not being taken real seriously these days, a lot like the other over-the-hill entertainers, televangelists. Good to listen to while you are driving to get your unemployment check, but not much else.
The (apparent) candidates to be give a sense of being genuine and being pragmatic. They are not afraid to try something new, even if it is something that the opposition might suggest, and if it doesn't work, they seem to be the type of people who will try something else. They seem to understand enough about the times we are in to understand what people expect from a leader.
It will be an interesting summer and fall, if the far right and far left don't cripple the guys first.
In other news this week:
The air force killed a satellite. My favorite analysis of the event came from a 'name the project' contest in "Wired" Magazine: Anything Hu Can Do, I Can Do Better.
Lindsay Lohan proved, once and for all, that those are real.
The primary season is all but over. On the right, kudo's to the pachyderms for running, more or less, a higher level, (or maybe a less imaginative or less energetic) campaign than the jackasses on the left who are still engaged in the grade school tactics that usually mark election year tactics.
Against most odds, Barak Obama seems to be headed towards the winners circle on the left side of the field, much to the chagrin of the lady who has waited oh so very long for her turn. It is my opinion and suspicion that she will get downnright nasty in the next few months, turning what is left of the democratic race into a scorched earth battle for the ideological soul of the party. It seems to be the principle of the thing.
That is probably the big reason why she is not winning. (There are others of course, not the least of which is her surname and the reputation that she built in her last period of residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave).
Ideology. Mitt Romney has it. Fred Thompson seems to sweat it. Look where those guys aren't right now. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly have it. They would be great in a Broadway revue together, or in a travelling roadshow like the Blue Collar comedians, but they are not being taken real seriously these days, a lot like the other over-the-hill entertainers, televangelists. Good to listen to while you are driving to get your unemployment check, but not much else.
The (apparent) candidates to be give a sense of being genuine and being pragmatic. They are not afraid to try something new, even if it is something that the opposition might suggest, and if it doesn't work, they seem to be the type of people who will try something else. They seem to understand enough about the times we are in to understand what people expect from a leader.
It will be an interesting summer and fall, if the far right and far left don't cripple the guys first.
In other news this week:
The air force killed a satellite. My favorite analysis of the event came from a 'name the project' contest in "Wired" Magazine: Anything Hu Can Do, I Can Do Better.
Lindsay Lohan proved, once and for all, that those are real.
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