Take
Your Pick
I like Bernie Sanders.
It's clear that the man has his shit thoroughly
together.
I
have
no
idea
what
took him so long to run
for
the
office
of President
of these
quais-United States
except that maybe he had more important
things to do
in the
Senate. He's creaky-freaky-old but I'm
sure he has a few more good years left
before he goes full-Reagan on us.
In
my view Bernie Sanders' role in the campaign was originally
to give Hillary Clinton an opponent. It was common
wisdom she had the nomination wrapped up but she needed
someone substantial to debate, even though Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, head of the DNC, did her best to keep
them hidden from
public
view.
What
neither Hillary nor Schultz suspected was that
Bernie's message would resonate with so many people.
Thus the
political now now unfolding.
But I like Hillary, too. She scares a lot
of people with R's after their name,
because she's a political animal,
she's incredibly bright and, most of all,
she's a "she", not a "he".
That's a combination that people with wide
stances in public
restrooms simply cannot abide.
Ever since it became apparent that she had eyes on
the White House the conservative powers that be have
spent
untold
millions of public monies trying to nail her on something,
anything, even if they had to invent problems. Like
underfunding foreign embassies and waiting for people
to die as a result, completely ignoring the fact that
the same
situation occurred multiple times during the Dubya
years and of
which no one, especially Republicans, said a goddamn
word. Know why? Because everyone knew that shit happens
and it's not always somebody's
fault. Unless you have two X chromosomes.
Now we've got this email scandal which, unless they
find pictures of Hillary sacrificing naked children
over a roaring fire fueled by newborn puppies
to the glory of Alan Greenspan, is just
another
fishing expedition. Karl Rove dumped 22 million emails
from a private server in 2007 and the corporate media
yawned, rolled over, and waited for another celebrity
to die of a drug overdose or bare their sweater muffins
in public.
I keep hearing these bullshit stories that a President
Hillary would gut us all like catfish for the benefit
of Wall Street and that she'd be endlessly war-mongering.
I'm getting rather tired of it all, especially since
it all seems to originate from
the same sources which adamantly stated that millions
of American would die of Ebola, damn that Obama's black
hide.
But I, personally, have no qualms about
happily pulling the lever for Hillary if
it comes to that. The conservative alternative
is throat-slittingly awful. But you know
what?
Bernie may yet win
California next
week
and
that might,
just might, throw the nominating process
into such a tizzy that it could result
in his snagging him the nomination.
Bigger picture, though, regardless of
who's the candidate a Republican-majority
Congress will continue to do absolutely
nothing
for
a Democratic
chief executive. You want real change
in government then don't worry about Hillary
or Bernie, worry about the House.
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Whether you know it or not something extraordinary
is happening in this election cycle. For
the first time in decades a sitting president
is going to be spending significant
time on the campaign trail stumping for
his party's candidates.
Think about it:
Dubya ran and hid, Bill Clinton still bore
the stink of that blue dress, H.W. Bush
didn't have the opportunity, and Reagan
was non compus mentis. Carter, Ford and
Nixon
simply couldn't and LBJ wouldn't. JFK was
CIA-ed. Eisenhower liked golf better than
Nixon.
Harry Truman, however, went on a whistle-stop
tour for Adlai Stevenson, which breaks
the string, but only briefly because the
previous presidents, Roosevelt and Hoover
didn't stump, either. I think I'll leave
it at that.
=Lefty=
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