Ahh...the Iowa Caucuses are over. Or should it be Caucusii? I'm not sure. A state with a minority population of 2.5% picked Barack 'Whoooossein' Obama over a Clinton? The Inevitable One lost to the Newbie with the "Un-Merkan" name. I'd wonder why but actually I'm not surprised at all. I can think of a few reasons and they all have to do with...we are tired of Bushes and Clintons. We want change.
Hillary made a big mistake by telling the world she played an instrumental role in her husband's administration. We've had time to reminisce since Bubba was King. While I do remember my 401K kicking ass back then, I also remember enduring 'down-sizing' and the hundreds of thousands of jobs leaving Ohio due to NAFTA. 'The Giant Sucking Sound' Perot predicted back in 1992 that would come from South of the border, moved East - finding countries willing to sell it's people into slavery for even lower wages than Mexico and willing to shower their executives even greater bonuses for wickedly huge profits. The outsourcing of all jobs be they blue collar or white, to India and China have devastated soooo many state economies it's ridiculous.
I also remember the Telecommunication's Act of 1996 that relaxed media ownership rules. Gee, that's served the public well hasn't it? Oh it hasn't? Huh. Hillary, a bit of advice...tell the nation you'd be better than your husband, tell us you would not not make the mistakes he made, and please.. don't tell us you had a hand in them. And whatever you do; do not tell us that receiving millions in campaign donations from big business lobbyists is equal to getting money from unions and public interest organizations. It's not. The ACLU and Cigna have different priorities and we are not stupid. Here endeth the lesson Hillary. You need to be, in your heart, a real populist in some way shape or form. Good luck with that.
Anyway....Obama won even though the Mediacracy said he wouldn't. The guy who the whisper campaigners did their best to play up as a 'scary terrorist' kicked ass tonight and I'll be damned if that doesn't make me happy! Whoooooo! I am truly excited about this even if he is not my personal pick. I'm hoping Mr. Audacity of Hope will take a cue from the populist candidate that nearly took him out and pay heed. Because America really wants change, they don't want someone who just talks about it.
Of course, there's the other one from Hope, Arkansas who won his race tonight. Mr. Mike 'Fox Hates Me' Huckabee...another Cinderella story of a more twisted variety...who spent gobs less yet creamed The Romney-Bot in the Iowa Caucus. Meaning - the Republicans are on their way to putting up just about the worst candidate ever. An even wackier Dubya without the money or family connections. A guy who has publicly stated: Women Must Submit To Their Husbands and Gay People Are Equatable To Necrophiliacs. Yeaaaahh, that'll play real well in the O.C. or anywhere else with running water.
Of course Mr. Old-Timey Values Guy...Huckabee aka The Huckster, has some pretty ugly baggage. He got his pre-serial-killer offspring off for hanging a dog from a tree for shits and giggles. And who could forget the rest of Mr. Aw-Shuck's plethora of corruption in office as Govengoober? It would seem that Mr. 'Aw-Shucks' is not exactly Mr. Clean.
Oh...man do ever I hope against hope that the Republicans keep Huckabee on top. I'd run my dog against him for president. Of course when Karly the Poop-Eating English Cocker beat Huckabee in a landslide, I'd have to step in at some point. I'd totally agree to be her Chief of Staff. It should be quite easy to spin a government official who licks herself, eats kibble, plays with inert objects, greets folks as if they are a a rock-star every time anyone she knows walks into a room, and craps wherever she feels as a being with the appropriate skills to be President compared to any GOP candidate. The improvement in diplomacy alone would be worth electing Karly The Poop Eating Dog for President. After all, we've accepted soooo much less of our President in every regard over the last seven years.
Sorry I digressed quite a bit there. But, if the election was to be held today and we'd have to choose between Obama and Huckabee? I would predict a landslide for Obama...especially since the kick-ass Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has decided to bring voting integrity back for our state. Biiiiiiiiggg kudos to Ms. Brunner!!!! I will vote this year and it will be counted..Ms. Brunner you have no idea to how many who feel that's music to their ears. Please support Ms. Brunner folks cuz you know the PD et al will not.
Of course, we've got at least two more states that need to vote before the Mediacracy decides who we are supposed to vote for. And us Ohioans don't get to weigh in till well after that...March 4th. Not fair. Ohio is a state that has been labeled as 'bell-weather' in many an election, our population diversity comes closest to resembling the nation as a whole yet our primary is practically the last to weigh in. Yet, this October we'll be bombarded with entreaties of candidates we really had no part in choosing. Heavy, heavy sigh. The primary system is anything but democratic. Maybe someday, us liberals will decide to make it so. But in the mean time kids, it's that season. And our country is calling on us to bring it back from the disaster it's fallen into.
Hope is not just a subjective noun that some guy claims audacity over or a pronoun that labels a city in the Midwest...it's a verb that embodies what the American people need. See you this Sunday where we'll all exhibit the meaning of hope and the spirit of Democracy when we meet to lift a pint to both.
Liberally yours,
Judy
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It's all liberal dog and pony. Hillary will be the nominee - even if she has to RFK somebody.
Hank,
What do you mean by 'RFK' somebody? Do you mean that Hillary will assasinate somebody? If so, it would be more accurate to say that she would 'Sirhan Sirhan' somebody. You do realize that RFK was the one who was assasinated and not the one who did the assasinating. Way to misuse a really sick dark-hearted analogy.
And I prefer a liberal dog and pony show to a Closet Conservative Toilet Stall Sex Party any day. But don't worry your twisted little heart about it...I'm pretty sure most Democrats do not want Hillary as their nominee.
Oh, by the way...how come no comment about the Cons I wrote about in this post? You no likey the Huck?
DUDE
hillary is just running for president to make history. it's obvoius. First female president. Duh. And after she wins (if she does) she is just going to chill while Bill Clinton does all the work. In fact, people only want to vote for Hillary BECAUSE her husband IS Bill Clinton. Seriously think about it. If Hillary Clinton isn't Bill's wife, would you still vote for her, especially over her tight competitor, Barack Obama? Probably not; I am guaranteed that it would bring a great decrease in Hillary supporters. This may sound like an accusation, but it is something you cannot deny. If Hillary becomes president and does make a great difference (in a good way) to America, most of the credit will point to Bill Clinton anyways, so it would not even matter if she was the first female president. Besides, Obama can do just as well WITHOUT Bill Clinton or anyone else, AND he can make history for being the first African American president. EAT THAT HILLARY.
VOTE FOR OBAMA YALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D HAHAHAHAHA
DUDE - LEAVE YOUR BASEMENT FOR TWO FREAKING HOURS YOU MAY FIND THAT CHEETOS ARE NOT A MAJOR FOOD GROUP!
Just saying...man seriously grow up, and Obama would not be impressed.
Yes, it would be more accurate.
I also could of said she will Vince Foster him.
As for toilet Stall Parties, I thought you belonged to the party of tolerance? Guess that is another lie.
I no likey any of the Republicans. I will vote the Constitution Party.
If you were an honest person, you would vote the Communist or Socialist Party.
PS: I go to the DL meetings in Ann Arbor. They are nice people but their politics are screwed up. I'm fixing their mental illness. Don't you worry.
Hank,
Regardless of your warped sense of what liberals are, we reaallly aren't very tolerant of conservative gay-bashing public officials soliciting for gay sex in public restrooms.
A.) It's against the law.
B.) It's disgusting, a public restroom? Other people have to use it! Eeeewwww!
C.) It illustrates their hypocrisy.
I've read your stuff on the net and your second response here was just text-book GOP whacko.
Ann Arbor can do what it wants but Cleveland's DL is a weekly sanctuary for liberals where we can enjoy discussing the issues and current events from our perspective without meat-headed dolts calling us commies.
You and your buddy Nik can't seem to resist that uneducated inaccurate label. You're clearly not interested in discussion, just baiting.
So in response to the e-mail I received from your buddy last week asking me to extend an invitation to you to our meetings, I'd have to say no.
Our meetings are fun, respectful and the owner of our venue is extremely supportive. I won't jeapordize that relationship so you can get your jollies slinging mud at liberals.
p.s. Maybe the folks in Ann Arbor just find you entertaining and don't take you seriously. Because that's kind of how I look at you.
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