Well it was actually wolfson's rant. But more to the point what was he ranting about? Obama being negative? Sorry, and no pun intended, but isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? Obama has had to suffer accusations of being a terrorist, a white man, a black man, a muslim, and a guy who refuses to put his hand on his heart at ceremonies. What exactly has Clinton been accused of? Running a poor campaign and expecting her husbands coat tales to elect her? That dog don't hunt.
"Enough of the speeches and the big rallies!" What in the world is Clinton trying to say? I guess she is trying to say, stop acting like my husband in 1992. Stop acting like a winner. Stop acting white! Black folks are there to vote for white saviors like me!
Obama is the future and the more Clinton opens her mouth about his negativity, which is a joke since I have not heard him go negative at all, the more she seems like the past.
McCain and Clinton are Obama's biggest supporters. So speaking for Barak I want to say, Thank you both so very much! Now on to the convention!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Nader 2008!
The complete irrelevancy of Ralph (also ran and screwed things up) Nader is something not to behold. His vainglory is matched only by his self righteous stupidity. Nader by mucking things up in 2000, has done more harm to America than he can imagine. All those American lives he saved with his consumer advocacy can now be put on the scales next to the hundreds of thousands of deaths he helped to cause by letting Bush-Co into the White House.
He is the joke that was not funny to begin with, being trotted out again at this years party, only to fall flat again. I had respect for this guy but no more. If he thinks his running ads a moral voice he is wrong. His voice has lost all that long ago. He is part of history, a history that is over now. His kind, like Bush and McCain and Clinton, are so busy fighting last decades wars that they fail to see the future.
He is the joke that was not funny to begin with, being trotted out again at this years party, only to fall flat again. I had respect for this guy but no more. If he thinks his running ads a moral voice he is wrong. His voice has lost all that long ago. He is part of history, a history that is over now. His kind, like Bush and McCain and Clinton, are so busy fighting last decades wars that they fail to see the future.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Another reason to vote for Obama
If you look at the campaign organization of Clinton, McCain, and Obama, it is clear that the Obama camp has the best. If you look at coherency of planning, fund raising, routing of funds correctly to do the most good, etc. there really is no doubt which camp is the best run.
This should be seriously considered by any voter trying to make up there mind. Remember that candidates usually drag their campaign staff right into the White House on "Day 1". Using organization as a guide, I would say that Obama will be more ready on Day 1 than either McCain or Clinton. After all who was ready on Day 1 of the campaign? While Clinton and McCain have had to scramble, reorganize, hire different staff, and borrow cash to plug funding holes, Obama has calmly built a Campaign Juggernaut.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Voters are STUPID!
Okay for all the idiots who do not understand our political system here is the low down:
The caps are for effecting a screaming tone
WE ARE NOT ELECTING A PRESIDENT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, AND COMMUNISTS, AND GREEN PARTY PEOPLE ARE ALL TRYING TO NOMINATE PEOPLE WHO WILL REPRESENT THEM IN THE ELECTION TO COME!!!!!!!!!!
OPEN PRIMARIES ARE STUPID SINCE, AS A DEMOCRAT, I WANT DEMOCRATS TO DECIDE OUR PARTY NOMINEE, NOT SOME IDIOT WHO CAN'T MAKE UP HIS MIND, OR A REPUBLICAN WHO IS TOO AFRAID TO THINK FOR HIMSELF AS A DEMOCRAT. IF YOU ARE AN "INDEPENDENT" AND WANT TO VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN IN A PRIMARY THEN FOR HEAVENS SAKE BECOME ONE!!!!!!!
PEOPLE WHO ARE "NOT AFFILIATED" WITH EITHER THE DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS SHOULD SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT HOW WE CHOOSE OUR NOMINEES.
Hopefully this will have educated the masses a bit.
Thanks you.
The caps are for effecting a screaming tone
WE ARE NOT ELECTING A PRESIDENT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, AND COMMUNISTS, AND GREEN PARTY PEOPLE ARE ALL TRYING TO NOMINATE PEOPLE WHO WILL REPRESENT THEM IN THE ELECTION TO COME!!!!!!!!!!
OPEN PRIMARIES ARE STUPID SINCE, AS A DEMOCRAT, I WANT DEMOCRATS TO DECIDE OUR PARTY NOMINEE, NOT SOME IDIOT WHO CAN'T MAKE UP HIS MIND, OR A REPUBLICAN WHO IS TOO AFRAID TO THINK FOR HIMSELF AS A DEMOCRAT. IF YOU ARE AN "INDEPENDENT" AND WANT TO VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN IN A PRIMARY THEN FOR HEAVENS SAKE BECOME ONE!!!!!!!
PEOPLE WHO ARE "NOT AFFILIATED" WITH EITHER THE DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS SHOULD SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT HOW WE CHOOSE OUR NOMINEES.
Hopefully this will have educated the masses a bit.
Thanks you.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Poll Crunch for 2008 so far...
Bush has been so horribly thought of for so long now that I gave up even doing a Poll Crunch. I decided to do the most exhaustive Crunch yet so I can get back on track. Since it is an election year and since it has been a while since I delved into the publics opinion of Bush, I was prepared for a shock.
Has the surge helped our man in the White House? Has he climbed out of his funk? Perhaps all the hullabaloo of the current race of the Presidency has caused America to rethink old W. My crunch took 17 separate polls done from the 1st of the year until today and averaged them all out. So with no more BS here is the Poll Crunch...
We like the guy!: 30%
We dislike the guy: 66%
We are too stupid to know: 4%
On another note in the Virginia primary yesterday Obama got 500,000 democratic votes, Clinton 300 and some thousand. McCain got 133,000 votes. In other words Obama got almost 5 times more votes in Virginia than McCain got. Heck even Hilary beat McCain in Virginia.
Another telling bit of trivia was that in South Carolina the Democratic vote grew by 82% since 2004 while the number of Republicans casting a vote shrank by 24%. The country is clearly looking for something new. Since we are stuck with the Dem's and the Rep's we keep ping-ponging hoping that one side will eventually get it right.
The Jenga Tower
I remember playing Jenga and getting a tower pretty high. Then the table got bumped and the whole thing collapsed. I was thinking that the socio-economic foundation of the world is getting bumped and those who in habit the top of the Jenga Tower are in the wobbling mode.
We take so much for granted. The ideas of nations, republics, kingdoms, corporations, seem to set in stone. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that all is constantly in flux. What was a good idea and social stable 200 years ago may not be such a good idea now. Progress in lots of little areas tends amount to upheaval overall.
Those closest to the table feel the movement first. They are whipped off their feet and though they see the effects first are powerless to do anything about it. The people at the top can last longer, but this is an illusion. If the wobble is severe enough the top swings beyond the point where the structure can self correct and down it goes.
History is full of this constant changing landscape of society. Always those on top are the last to accept the new normal. Those on the bottom have no choice to accept or reject it. The top really has no choice either. It is not as if the top can simply say "we do not want things to change so they will not!"
I will give two examples of this process. The first such example is Rome. Rome was not just a city. It was a way of life. The reason Rome became the dominant organizing factor in the its time was that provided a stability and harmony that allowed for socio-economic expansion. However things change and after several centuries the underpinnings of Rome ceased to foment this expansion.
Another example is the ending of feudalism in Europe. Like Rome the social and economic system that had allowed expansion in Europe ceased to work. Technology, and the location of money changed the way the expansion could work.
In both cases lots of people, primarily on top, tried in vane to pretend like their organization was "eternal", or ordained by God. I would say that I would rather live in the monotonous and predictable middle of these societies than in the times of flux. I seriously think we are in a time of flux. The institutions and structures we have relied on in the past to allow expansion are under enormous strain and progress is making many aspects of our civilization anachronistic.
Examples:
Global finance: Does anyone really think that any nation is in charge of its economic destiny?
Global communication: Does anyone really think that they can control the flow of information?
These two are making the very ideas of the old nation-state model obsolete. Communities and commerce is now organizing globally in a way that is out of any nations control. Nations that are used to democratic thought will have it easier than the nations that are totalitarian.
I was listening to World Have Your Say (BBC) and the topic was athletes free speech regarding the Beijing Olympics. Two Chinese people were saying that the athletes should focus on competing and not using their status to speak out on world affairs. All the callers from Democracies thought this was a stupid argument since China itself is using the games as a political statement. China, and nations like it, is well behind the times. China should never have wished the games on its soil if it did not want such controversy.
We take so much for granted. The ideas of nations, republics, kingdoms, corporations, seem to set in stone. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that all is constantly in flux. What was a good idea and social stable 200 years ago may not be such a good idea now. Progress in lots of little areas tends amount to upheaval overall.
Those closest to the table feel the movement first. They are whipped off their feet and though they see the effects first are powerless to do anything about it. The people at the top can last longer, but this is an illusion. If the wobble is severe enough the top swings beyond the point where the structure can self correct and down it goes.
History is full of this constant changing landscape of society. Always those on top are the last to accept the new normal. Those on the bottom have no choice to accept or reject it. The top really has no choice either. It is not as if the top can simply say "we do not want things to change so they will not!"
I will give two examples of this process. The first such example is Rome. Rome was not just a city. It was a way of life. The reason Rome became the dominant organizing factor in the its time was that provided a stability and harmony that allowed for socio-economic expansion. However things change and after several centuries the underpinnings of Rome ceased to foment this expansion.
Another example is the ending of feudalism in Europe. Like Rome the social and economic system that had allowed expansion in Europe ceased to work. Technology, and the location of money changed the way the expansion could work.
In both cases lots of people, primarily on top, tried in vane to pretend like their organization was "eternal", or ordained by God. I would say that I would rather live in the monotonous and predictable middle of these societies than in the times of flux. I seriously think we are in a time of flux. The institutions and structures we have relied on in the past to allow expansion are under enormous strain and progress is making many aspects of our civilization anachronistic.
Examples:
Global finance: Does anyone really think that any nation is in charge of its economic destiny?
Global communication: Does anyone really think that they can control the flow of information?
These two are making the very ideas of the old nation-state model obsolete. Communities and commerce is now organizing globally in a way that is out of any nations control. Nations that are used to democratic thought will have it easier than the nations that are totalitarian.
I was listening to World Have Your Say (BBC) and the topic was athletes free speech regarding the Beijing Olympics. Two Chinese people were saying that the athletes should focus on competing and not using their status to speak out on world affairs. All the callers from Democracies thought this was a stupid argument since China itself is using the games as a political statement. China, and nations like it, is well behind the times. China should never have wished the games on its soil if it did not want such controversy.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Lest We Forget
Cost of war at that the beginning of this blog entry: $492,737,622,437
I know that there are so many aspects of our lives that keep us busy and demand our attention. Presidential races, Celebrity drug overdoses, lots of shootings here and there and all the bills we all have to keep paying all keep us on our fearful toes.
So I must draw attention to the fact that we are still in a war. Let us see where we are at as of now. Well things in Baghdad look better. Anbar province looks more peaceful. Mosul on the other hand is a mess. Diyala province is also a mess. We are working to rest control of Mosul from the bad guys. My fellow blogger Najma is hunkering down with her family and trying not to get killed. Two professors from her school were gunned down within the last month and a bomb blast interrupted her final exams. This kid is something else. Despite all the crap befalling her city she still goes to school.
I am not a military man but I have a brain and can think. This situation does not seem to be much better at all. We are being fed the line that things are calming down. But what does that mean in the long run? As the “surge” troops cycle out and the force level goes down the vacuum will probably begin all over again.
Remember what Bush, the Democrats, the Republicans, and all the talkers keep saying. We will leave when the Iraqi army can handle things. Think about that for a moment. The US, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, etc do not need their army’s to maintain order in the country. Free nations have armys for external threats not national order control. If everyone who is in power now or is likely to be in power in the future, is telling us that we will leave Iraq in a state that requires its national army to maintain order, then they are telling us that we have failed in Iraq. Democracies do not need tanks in the streets to maintain order.
I find it hard to believe that when we pack up and go home Iraq will settle down. The surge has slowed the fuse to the bloodbath but not extinguished it
Cost of war at the end of my blog entry: $492,739,367,550
Money expended by US taxpayers during my blog entry: $1,745,113.00
What else could the US spend $275 million a day on?
I know that there are so many aspects of our lives that keep us busy and demand our attention. Presidential races, Celebrity drug overdoses, lots of shootings here and there and all the bills we all have to keep paying all keep us on our fearful toes.
So I must draw attention to the fact that we are still in a war. Let us see where we are at as of now. Well things in Baghdad look better. Anbar province looks more peaceful. Mosul on the other hand is a mess. Diyala province is also a mess. We are working to rest control of Mosul from the bad guys. My fellow blogger Najma is hunkering down with her family and trying not to get killed. Two professors from her school were gunned down within the last month and a bomb blast interrupted her final exams. This kid is something else. Despite all the crap befalling her city she still goes to school.
I am not a military man but I have a brain and can think. This situation does not seem to be much better at all. We are being fed the line that things are calming down. But what does that mean in the long run? As the “surge” troops cycle out and the force level goes down the vacuum will probably begin all over again.
Remember what Bush, the Democrats, the Republicans, and all the talkers keep saying. We will leave when the Iraqi army can handle things. Think about that for a moment. The US, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, etc do not need their army’s to maintain order in the country. Free nations have armys for external threats not national order control. If everyone who is in power now or is likely to be in power in the future, is telling us that we will leave Iraq in a state that requires its national army to maintain order, then they are telling us that we have failed in Iraq. Democracies do not need tanks in the streets to maintain order.
I find it hard to believe that when we pack up and go home Iraq will settle down. The surge has slowed the fuse to the bloodbath but not extinguished it
Cost of war at the end of my blog entry: $492,739,367,550
Money expended by US taxpayers during my blog entry: $1,745,113.00
What else could the US spend $275 million a day on?
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Stupid Tuesday Now Over!
Where do I start? Well I guess I start by saying that I am about as pleased as I can be with the results. Obama is eeking out a win in Missouri and McCain is finishing off the other dunderheads. Why is Missouri so important? Is not California the big prize? And after all in the Democratic party most delegates are given out proportionally.
The reason that a Missouri win for Obama is important is that NO candidate in over 100 years has won the White House without carrying Missouri. A win in this heartland state is vital to set the stage fore the general election for an Obama win. I know that Clinton did well on Super Tuesday, but Obama did just as well.
I'm so pleased that it is really looking like no matter who wins America will get a good President. And again if you think McCain is another Bush you are mistaken. Who were his big buddies in the Senate? Kennedy and Fingold, not exactly card carrying Neocons. The conservatives hate the guy, which is a good sign.
The other really terrific thing about Stupid Tuesdayu is that it looks like Oregon's vote might actually count!
The reason that a Missouri win for Obama is important is that NO candidate in over 100 years has won the White House without carrying Missouri. A win in this heartland state is vital to set the stage fore the general election for an Obama win. I know that Clinton did well on Super Tuesday, but Obama did just as well.
I'm so pleased that it is really looking like no matter who wins America will get a good President. And again if you think McCain is another Bush you are mistaken. Who were his big buddies in the Senate? Kennedy and Fingold, not exactly card carrying Neocons. The conservatives hate the guy, which is a good sign.
The other really terrific thing about Stupid Tuesdayu is that it looks like Oregon's vote might actually count!
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