Shout out to Bob.
Howdy Folks!
I have been asked “the question” of this election year, am I for Clinton or Obama.
My perspective abhors those who make a fetish of decrying the good in favor of the perfect.
The criticism most often leveled at me is that by taking this stance, I cut off the possibility for achieving the heights needed to truly make a difference.
I feel uncomfortable bragging, but I have an intellect that at least allows me to perceive the ideals and aspirations that great thinkers put out there for consideration if not understand them completely. My heart tugs me in that direction.
However, belonging to a minority group where the glass ceiling is so low we have to get down on our hands and knees to crawl under it, tells me that defeat now is not an option. That glass ceiling is lowering and crushing the life out of millions.
My experience also tells me that the too oft disparaged “half a loaf” has kept me and millions like me going for most of my life.
The promise of three quarters of a loaf leaving leftovers in the breadbox to inspire a more peaceful nights sleep is not to be turned away from lightly.
Again, on examination, the positions taken by Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are not that different. It’s just the rhetoric and rhetoric doesn’t pay the bills.
Whoever wins will enforce the civil rights acts and all the other laws and regulations that Bush and his cronies have broken, soiled laws and regulations that Bush and his cronies have broken, soiled and degraded. They will fight an effective war on terrorists using the broad panaply of tools we have that will also restore our self respect, democratic principles and standing around the world and put us on a progressive path towards the future.
Neither one will usher in nirvana, but any Republican will almost certainly doom us to failure and misery for generations.
I will support the nominee of the Democratic Party and even send in my paltry sum of money to help out. More importantly, I know where there is a Democratic Party phone bank that I can volunteer at when the time comes. My lady and I will make dates out of it.
I’m not so much for the nomination of Mrs. Clinton as I am for the nominee winning the Presidency.
Fox News awaits the nominee though.
Fox News and all that Fox News has come to stand for. The legion of right wing enterprises funded by malignant corporate interests, religious nuts and idle, bitter billionaires sucking the marrow of long dead Robber Barons.
Swift Boats will be launched from their pens. Fueled by greed, hatred and sheer self entitled hubrs. Drudge will be drudged up and repeated millions of times as if true. Fair and Balanced panels will be showcased on every hand with screaming fanatics getting the most air and last word from sycophants seeking to keep their ratings and incomes.
Then, of course, there’s Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and their myriad incestuous spawn.
Mrs. Clinton’s negatives and “divisiveness” have been overhyped. Polls and, more importantly election results have shown that these are the result of listening to the GOP and the too cozy media’s confection. Mr. Obama’s negatives have hardly been mentioned. Of course the people who hate the anything “Clinton” will hate Clinton. They’ll hate Obama too; just as hard too, don’t kid yourself.
I’ve heard it said that Mrs. Clinton can’t best Mr. Kerry’s last electoral outing. This forgets the GOP’s wonderfully Just position, displayed for all to see in it’s natural ugliness.
They are historically weak, which needs to be exploited. Not forgiven.
I am not for Mrs. Clinton nor am I against Mr. Obama. I am against losing. Their policies are not that different. Mr. Obama doesn’t have as much experience as Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton is less inspiring than Mr. Obama.
It is said against her that Mrs. Clinton will do “anything to win.” I dispute that she would do “anything” to win. The “fighting” that has gone on so far in the primaries has been tame, but she fights hard.
I like that. I want someone who can fight back against the horror that the GOP is going to start as soon as we have a nominee.
There will be no dawning of a grand era of Bipartisanship just because Mr. Obama wishes it, calls for it, hopes for it.
The GOP will chainsaw him, his wife and children without a second thought all the while saying what wonderful Chistians they are.
That’s what they do. It’s what they always do.
As they are on the brink of losing power for perhaps generations to come, as they are on the brink of having an Administration come in that may open the vaults on documents that will expose the depths of their depravity, as they are on the brink of having their very ideology, Conservatism, shown for nothing more then still kissing the French Kings ass, they will do this with the savage ferocity of the cornered, venomous beasts they are.
We are about to oust a group of people best described as trying to make us into a Fascist WarMart.
The record is clear, Mrs. Clinton fights. And she wins.
Winning makes everything else possible.
Bob G.
Again, the words above are not mine, I just wish they were.
