The Chinese Olympic Commies can sure put on a show, can't they?

Gee. This must be how Rome, ancient Egypt, the 3500 southern American slave owned plantations and all those other places that utilized slave labor to build their grandness became so fabulous.

They almost had me.
Great ceremony, the bird's nest, the pretty girls, the warmth, everything perfect. Right up until the time the Chinese soldiers took hold of the Olympic flag. Then I felt a chill down my spine. The pili on my arms stood up like I was still in the caves of France as a bear approached...no, nothing's really changed.

These people in so much red mean business.

Khrushchev, Hu, Putin, Medvedev
Meanwhile, Russia still looks like it's still full of the same old Commies of 1968 when they rolled tanks into Prague as yesterday and Friday Medvedev sent warplanes and 500 tanks into the country of Georgia and killed 2000 civilians.

Vladimir (when will we ever learn not to trust guys named Vladimir?) Putin's the same KGB guy I wrote about five years ago, only's he's got Armani clothes and great shoes and big old wifie's got a personal trainer and bleached her hair and got a bunch of Botox. Didn't work, though; I noticed he also has his own personal Party Concubine, a gymnast, which brings all sorts of imagery to my nimble mind.

Let's hear how Prince Barack handles the real world aspect of 21st century style Communism, pretty and not so pretty. Don't expect much, considering most of our young people don't get it. Communists just love people like Barack. They eat them for breakfast. In fact, now that the Prince has established his leftist bona fides he should talk easily with these folks...live and let live and all.

The world has not changed even if people like the new Democrats say it has.

There is little real people alone can do but wake up and remember the horrors of this system then protest the ridiculous and barbaric attitudes of these bad men.

One might pray for the persecuted. Look in the sidebar for the organization, Voice of the Martyrs, that I've been working with for a few years. It's a excellent start. They give many choices and ways to help the persecuted around the globe. One of my favorites is to write letters to imprisoned Christians like the ones who possess Bibles in their homes in China or who provide secret worship services in "house" churches.

As I watched the birds nest, I had to wonder how many Christians paid with their lives to give Mao his glory. It was very Nuremberg, wasn't it. If only Leni Riefenstahl had been there to see the grandeur and precision; she and Speer would have been in absolute orgasmic Nirvana, although the Left in this country doubtless will laugh at my simplistic pairing of the two.

Thatcher, Reagan, Bush, Solzhenitsyn
There is however, MUCH governments can do, which Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were able to show to the world by their immense ability to determine right from wrong.

President Bush also displayed his scruples and principles in Thailand by speaking directly to China about their human rights abuse and again today by attending a Christian "church." Of course, since there are no Christian churches, I'm not sure how all that occurred.

Just a few hours ago, Christian protesters were removed from the infamous Tienanmen Square for peaceful praying. That pretty much says it all. Of course, we don't know where those folks were removed "to." But then, no one cares, do they? Unless they're Tibetans or live in Darfur. I have to respond immediately to the people who are nuts over Darfur, "Where were you during Somalia and Rwanda?"

That's right. Nowhere. Silent. Nevermind. We Republicans took care of it while you played in Hollywood.

God bless Alexander Solzhenitsyn for his near martyrdom. Is it a coincidence that the next generation of Russians produced a man named Serge who worked with Communists to help place a foundation of totalitarian success such as we are seeing today? I wish I could have spoken to Mr. Solzhenitsyn on this subject.

I wish also I could have spoken to him about the shameless exposure America was given by President Clinton of its nuclear secrets to China for money during the 90s. Again, we are speaking of the chickens returning, as Reverend Wright said so clearly that day in his church, to roost.

Those who are oppressed understand chicken roosting.

BTW: you can order those bracelets above by clicking on the link in VOM link. They're cheap and make quite a point. Cool, too...lots cooler than those China Dolls, I think, that will serve as nothing more than a front for the Chinese Communist Party.

Have a nice day in your freedom while you watch the 100-yard dash and try to remember those people all over the world who don't have any.

While you're at it, you might want to lay off President Bush. His irrational, illegal, bully policies have given a few people--about 80 million of them in Iraq and about 28 million of them in Afghanistan--a little bit more freedom than they've ever had in their lives.

But then, he's a Bush. Everyone hates the Bushes. After all, he's a Republican. We Republicans have no hearts. Actually, just ask Daily Kos and Move On, all those people who got the money for Obama and Clinton and that fine, upstanding gentleman, John Edwards. They'll tell you we're just a bunch of bastards.

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Not Carly Fiorina, for crying out loud. For Veep?

They just don't get it.

They just won't get it.

They just continue to not get it.

I don't want another business person running a war--or the country, thank you. We saw how Bush with an MBA delegates (Brownie with FEMA, Rumsfeld, the folks in early Iraq,). I'm over the business model. Thanks. It doesn't work. Obviously.

Now I know McCain's people are senile.

I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm about to give up.

Thanks for the read.

Face it, Barack. I'm just not that into you.

The Obama surrogates keep saying as an old white woman I can't get past the race thing. By the way, that's what Obama's surrogates automatically respond with when people say anything about race. "Well, they are older, you know. That's something they learned in the old days." Thanks.

That is the "post race" rant they've decided on. The argument is ridiculous to the point of madness in its lack of depth as it refuses to acknowledge there is value is discussing the differences and the past, what drove the behaviors of bigotry and the expressions of hatred. Instead, the new generation, with it's government education wants to proceed with: blinders on, past is past and let's move on, unless we're talking about Republicans, who are mired in the past, cannot grow up and can be forgiven to a certain point.

What prigs. They just continue to piss me off on a daily basis. Good grief, they're ignorant; and, no. I never was that ignorant, of which they are so quick to accuse me and in a general way anyone with whom they disagree.

It's Obama and his arrogance. But immediately, another attack on Obama is registered in the Do Not Touch column of the Do Not Touch Book. It's not his color. It is so insulting to hear that. It's his politics and mostly him. The way he treats people. The way he acts. Kind of like THEM. How quickly they assume it is about race. Politics. Left-wing politics. Are they crazy? Does anyone in the room not think the GOP would love a guy like this in our party?


However, I've noticed his people are making him all nice and sweet now. Trying to make him a real, sweetheart to old broads like me. The cross and Obama's likeness across it may show up in a hologram somewhere soon.

Divine intervention might bring Obama into the hearts and minds of a few grown ups, but I doubt it. Go to MSNBC.com and watch the life story in the right hand sidebar, if you can stand it. It absolutely JFKesque, even down to the second to last slide with the 3/4 pensive face shot.

I told ya it would be a Kennedy summer. This is the beginning of the wave if, and it might be a really big IF, Obama succeeds as the nominee. I still don't believe it. And because I don't I'm a racist...follow that logic, if you want. It's very strange, I'll admit.

Meanwhile, the rest of you can join us on Planet Earth. If McCain can play off Obama's freightening foreign policy inadequacy, even more frighteningly sparse resources in that area, the Fairness Doctrine issue, among a few others, the polls will drop Obama quickly before the Dem Convention and then the Hillary Machine will crank up.

So. Where's Bill? He's got a campaign for co president to run! Watch for the deus ex machina for Hillary. I just...I just feel it. Don't you? Kinda? Maybe?

This is a woman who runs on power and her engines are revved up. She's got something up her pantsuit leg.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch house
I see Republican men are still stumbling around wondering what to do. They'll go and bomb something, I'm sure, which always works. They gotta be careful as to the timing. Of course the big problem is McCain's got no pals. So they've gotta get some boys into position. That's the problem with being a maverick, you don't get to make the big calls when you need them.

After they settle on the who, what, where, when, they pick the nominee and if McCain lives long enough...

They'll have a drink, cigar and talk about women and then golf, compare their drivers, then go home to the wifie. Just like they did fifty years ago...and fifty years before that.

That's called power and machismo. When asked why they do it every time, they answer the same way: "Because we can." They said "yes we can" lots earlier than old Barry. And they're much better at it.

We'll see if either of them needs Viagra. I don't know who'll win this man contest. Hillary or the guys with the army. Meanwhile, Barack is kind of weak, if you know what I mean.

*sigh*

Thanks for the read.

McCain can choose anyone he wants for VP--as long as she's black ...

plays a mean, almost naughty Warsaw Concerto...

loves pro football as much as I do...

and can take Obama to the cleaners and back on foreign policy.

Oh my goodness, could you contain yourselves?

I have nothing more to say other than exhort the Republican males to look at the Obama juggernaut before them.

This is like it was in the JFK-crazy 60s. If they ignore it they do so into oblivion.

And then there's Hillary comin' round the mountain when she comes. The fat lady has yet to sing, if you know what I mean.

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RECOUNT: Just another attack on the GOP (and a personal one on Katherine Harris) So what else is new?

Oh well, no one said the entertainment elite was ever fair or even historically correct. People have figured that out by now.

Contrary to what the producers and actors say in the movie, Recount which premiered last night on HBO, and will be repeated today, the only votes not counted in Florida were those in the panhandle which seemed to trend toward George Bush. Until tonight's viewing it was my understanding that the military votes were not counted and they had been dated correctly and certified. I think that is a fact worth rechecking.

Recount is a big production--another election year pro democrat production. This is what Hollywood does every four years or so. You might like it.

Great big characters and self important dialogue complete with Al Gore's I-actually-was-raised- in-a-Washington-hotel-not-in-Tennessee voice, in addition to stereotypes about pragmatic and GD Republican white men, coldblooded like a supersizeme Jim Baker played by Tom Wilkinson and others probably made the veteran producer Sidney Pollock feel he was keeping the piece balanced against his leftie coproducers Jay Roach and Kevin Spacey. It didn't work for me, never does because I've watched these people for too many years. But for those who don't read or follow the facts, the appearance of balance comes off nicely for the most part.

Offhanded profundity after profundity about the American democratic process from staff underlings pepper each scene in the campaign war rooms. Important speeches are delivered by good old fashioned liberal actors like Laura Dern, Kevin Spacey, Ed Begley Jr. Familiar others you'll recognize as this thing slouches to its utter and ignominious end.

Look for the good casting in lookalike characters--Clarence Thomas, Ginsberg, Scalia--on the Supreme Court and in more than a couple of other scenes throughout.

If you're a Dem, you'll appreciate, no, you'll dig the underdog, college days Democrat realpolitik feel of it. You might even feel kind of young again. However, the storyline is annoying if you take it too seriously or from a historical POV, although it has more energy and modernity to it than All the President's Men. For one thing, it's HD. It's typical Spacey, warts and all.

I think the movie fails completely and finally when Dern's portrayal of Katherine Harris becomes gratuitously evil and the writer obviously holds her responsible for Gore's loss. It is here that the entire story falls apart.

Harris was not the problem in Florida. The Dems would love for everyone to believe that. There were hundreds of issues at play in Florida. Regardless, the need for the writer to take this final plot turn removes any chance this script had to redeem itself, although it was on life support up to this point, from becoming 100% pure Democrat propaganda.

I'm not surprised that the writer got away with this and it is kind of funny. However. This was awful, just awful, in its lack of honesty. After the denouement--Katherine did it--we're left with a crestfallen, but philosophical Spacey talking to Al Gore on the phone, about never giving up or some such nonsense.

Other than that, I sort of enjoyed it; except I'm getting tired of being beat up on for being a Republican. I wish these guys would pull back some. Can I help it if the old white guys don't have any imagination and can't put a decent movie together?

If I wanted to and had the money I believe even I, little ole me, could put a little screenplay together, maybe another high falutin script about the exact same shenanigans that are pulled on a daily basis in the very area from which the current candidate of their party comes: the shining south side of the city of Chicago. I'd be very careful if I were these high-talking Democrats.

Yes. So pure. So clean. So high minded. Uh huh. Pretty personal stuff when it comes to Harris, high minded Democrats.

Who the hell do they think they're kidding?

Thanks for the read.

Where are the Republican women at your Arizona barbeque, Mac? Why are you NOT considering a woman for Vice President?

I sent this back to the McCain campaign in response to their latest money raising email this morning. I doubt that they'll even read it:

Look, Senator McCain, I've been loyal for years now. I'm done.

Until you can start listening, I'm basically done supporting the party. They've ignored Republicans in California, they've ignored the women in this party, and now after twenty years I am finally done.

What more incentive do you people need? We have an African American and a woman on the opposition's ticket. Good grief! Are you people mad?

Yes, I'm afraid you really are. I've been afraid of that since I saw how George Bush couldn't even lead us through a war. Obviously any group who could let a man like Larry Craig keep his Senate seat is mad.

You're oblivious to public opinion. That showed nicely during Katrina. I was one Republican who wanted to scream. I was mortified at Bush's behavior. Jindal would be another similar disaster. Believe me when I say these things. He's just like the kid who took over FEMA. No experience. Why do you make these bad choices?

What Republican men have done to our party is ridiculous and only doormat Republican women would put up with it.

I am one Republican woman is is over it. Again, and hopefully for the last time.

I repeat. Why are there no women at this conclave in Arizona?

Of course, the next question is: what are you going to do when you lose people like me? Oh, that's right. You really don't give a damn.

Obviously you don't or you'd have a woman at that barbeque in Arizona! Pisses me off.

Oh, John. And if you need money get it from Cindy. She's got more money than God, from what I understand, if she'd release her tax records, we'd all know.

Thanks for the read.

Psst. Maybe a little shock treatment like this will work. God knows I've tried everything else except taking off my clothes.

Barack over reacts to Bush appeasement sentence in Israel speech.

Senator Obama: you've done exactly what your opponents thought you would do. You've over reacted and turned inside out over a statement that should have been left alone. Why? Because you're an amateur who belongs in the White House in Haiti.

Are you saying you don't agree with the president?

Are you saying you agree with the president?

What is your problem with the statement exactly?

Why are you so upset?

Did President Bush call you a name?

While we're on this subject of qualifications, since you're showing your lack of them, did you ever attend an international relations course?

My husband wants to know if you've ever watched a TV Western.

Were you ever taught in a practical way how to handle these set ups? This was a set up, you know, Barack. You bit, big time.

Why are you trying to frame this as your foreign policy? Aren't you and your people more organized than this? Didn't you want to roll out something a little more comprehensive?

You're going to fail because suddenly you've got Israel as your fulcrum. Wow! How'd that happen?! You didn't want that, did you? Now you've got a problem. Now what? How had you planned to defend Israel from Iran, those folks you plan to talk to, those who consider them corpses, dogs, pigs, human excrement?

That's the trash talk you choose to ignore; in addition you consciously choose to ignore that our soldiers are being killed by them with their insurgents and munitions. That doesn't seem to bother you at all, does it? That reeks that you would be so open about that. You can consider meeting with these people and talk, while our soldiers get killed by their rockets.

Talk. Talk. Talk. Talk your brains out, kid. As Senator Clinton mentioned, "I think he gave a speech once."

Why, Senator Obama, the Iranian regime you're so anxious to have a cigarette with and appease -- I don't know what else to call it--what are you going to use to appease them with other than the State of Israel--may even pull a latter day Khomeini and Iranian student kinda move and keep you there your entire presidency! Better watch it.

Stranger things have happened. Just ask Ahmadinejad. He was one of the captors at the Tehran Embassy, after all when they kept our people for, what, 400 plus days while Jimmy Carter stewed? Good Christian that he is, the great man predictably let all those folks sit.

Moreover, you'd best choose a hawkish Veep. I advise you to take along some good reading--may I recommend treatises on state crafting and war and peace keeping?

But enough of this fun and back to reality, this simply looks as if you've reached for this event to demonstrate that your new best friend is really Israel (covering your old statements) by distracting what you said about talking directly to Iran and now attacking the president.

It is an opportunistic attempt to show people how strong you are. You have failed because you have shown yourself to be weaker and reactive. You should have waited.

You and yours are immature, ego driven and disorganized.

You started this discussion by stating that you would have direct, unconditional talks with Ahmadinejad immediately.The number one problem is we don't negotiate from weakness. If you're going to president, I can't imagine you don't know that and acknowledge the reality of power and keeping power. Who's telling you otherwise? George McGovern? What losers are advising you? Even the bosses in Chicago know that.

The other problem is that you are using false facts to back you up. You seem impatient, not willing to do the work and research. Lazy. More likely, you and your friends are unwilling to listen to truth if you don't like the sounds of it.

The third problem is you're clueless about diplomacy and how things work in the bad world or you're lying to your supporters and you're just a damned politician like the rest of em. The south side of Chicago is different that the Middle East. You're not a statesman.

That shows you are provincial, not ready for prime time.

By the way, we are in multilateral talks with North Korea for one reason only. We refused to talk directly with NK directly six years ago. Okay? Madeline Albright and Kim Jong Il danced on a stage in the 90s while the North Koreans happily thumbed their noses and built their nuke capabilities anyway during "talks." It indeed set in motion the North Korean nuclear program ten to fifteen years sooner than it should've been. It was a monumental failure in judgment on William Clinton's part.

You Obamas need to get this right before you use it. That's why the NKs are at the table. Until the other nations pulled the NKs to the table, did the US agree to participate. Got it? Your supporters and surrogates are out there flapping their cheeks about all kinds of foreign policy stands about which they are stupid--and wrong and ignorant, which is worse. There also incorrect about other historical facts using Nixon's, Reagan's and Ike's names in vain, which is funny because all of these men were hawks and anti leftists of the first degree. They'd have Obama in parody by now.

Anyway, Barack, you don't just pick up a book and learn this stuff by reading it...you live it, you learn it, you hear it and you watch it. For years and years. Then you listen to people who have done just that and have participated successfully in the process.

Then there's that darned arrogance of yours again.

We negotiate from strength in the United States as a matter of policy and to suddenly stop because of some freak of nature election which somehow allows fate to drop an attractive, ambitious, angry but deeply pitted Chicago revolutionary and his ungrateful, equally angry wife and thugs into the seat of world power in the White House would probably change our national landscape so dramatically that none of us will ever be the same.

"And this is why, my darling child, God and Democrats invented Super Delegates." And free will.

Thanks for the read.

Clarified Change we can believe in just arrived at 11:17 am PDT from the horses's mouth: Obama will meet with anyone and demand that all the things he demands must be met and we will then go from there.

Moving on: Cult of Hillary and Obama to Reality

You gotta face the facts, guys! It's time for substantive discussions of national security issues...not the vagaries and fantasies and ideas of some who grew up feeling good because they read graphic novels and saw Stephen Spielberg movies in which people just like them grew up saying things just like they said in exactly the same angst ridden, easy times that nature probably hasn't seen since the Garden of Eden.

Not real people.

Some of them got the idea that they could turn on a machine and simply earn money that way. The funny thing is they can.

But not real people.

Some of these kids got the idea that they could bounce a basketball or learn to run a football, play a certain card game a certain way, write something well, and make oodles of money. And sure enough, as it turns out some of them actually can. There are all kinds of examples of kids who are making huge amounts of money.

The kinds of money that most of our fathers and grandfathers would be embarrassed to even look at--no, let me rephrase that. I'm embarrassed for my dad to have to seen that, considering that my dad, who worked his way through college as a four-letter varsity man, got two science degrees, taught school and then had to paint barns and work in steel mills in the summers to feed his family, and then have little boys and girls lecture Republicans like him on life?

I don't think so.

Still. It's hard to argue with their success. It's also hard to take their shrugs, their arrogance, their knowledge. Their nods. As they clear their throats, swallow their laughs. It's part of being nice to your elders.

So. With all the smarts they have.

As a mother I must ask simply why don't they speak honestly about their own security? Why do they ignore it? Why is it no one talks about it? It seems so obvious to me? What is that about? Why does national security not seem to be a priority in this campaign? There is no mention.

When it is mentioned, it is downplayed as a "legal" issue, maybe? What if they're wrong? What if their kids' schools are the targets?

Above all things in their lives their children are their trophies. One would think they'd watch over them more carefully. Maybe it's that fairyland mentality that keeps them from thinking grown up thoughts. It's easy to do. I know. They have no experience. It's a natural reaction to want tranquility and peace and to think 9/11 was a one-time deal.

Yeah, right, and my cool friend and associate, Darth Vader came into my room last night and told me to teleport you with Yada and Nonoo after you've blasted into hyperspace with...

Jeez. I just don't know how to convince them of reality. Until then I'll just sound sill...or until someone comes along they can relate to...I'll just sound like a fear monger.

And for all of you over the age of 50: a graphic novel is a comic book.

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Tina Fey made the point: "Bitch is the new black, People!"

A L E R T

Dear Republican Men who art in charge, we're going to lose to Hillary Clinton if you don't figure this age thing (John's) out and find a running mate who can trump her. That is, if she gets the nomination. She's very appealing to older women voters. Most of my readers know I believe she will probably be the nominee.

In response to either her or Senator Obama's possible nomination, let me make a suggestion for the running mate spot with Senator McCain: It sure would be a nice touch if you could talk a woman named Condi or a man named Colin into stepping up.

No southern white men this time. Zero, none. Nada. Zilch. No men. Stop already with the white men. Enough. Don't you get it yet?

And it's not personal, just practical. There is an entire nation of people of color who feel they have no other choice than some neosocialist Democrat who claims to want to represent them as their savior. He uses his poorness mentality--special interests (while is supported by those), his boom box, outdoor voice, talks down to everyone and throws a bunch of hokum at people about how the man is killing them and keeping them down rather than explaining what the true America is all about. Such talk sickens me because it is untrue and silly.

For instance, at a rally, signs in the crowd and on the front of his dais from which he spouts his down-uptalk that reads "Reclaiming America" insult me and should everyone else who is American. "Reclaiming?" From who? Who took America?

Can I not walk down the street freely? Where are the armed guards that prevent me from doing so? Am I not still free to get a job? Is it not possible for me to set up my own business? I don't understand. Do my children not have the freedom to attend private schools? Can I attend the church of my choice and pray in public? Reclaim America from what? What the heck is he talking about? Reclaim America?

See what I mean about hokum? That phrase means about as much as his "Change we can believe in." That doesn't mean anything.

Back to me beating up on my party: You Republican guys and I have been through this drill many, many times before. The most recent fray we had, of course was in 2000 with the McCain Bush thing. And before that when the Senate Election Committee decided not to send serious money to California to fight for our Senate seats out here. You just gave up!

As a result I've been unrepresented as a Republican and it's ticked me off ever since and nationally we don't have California, now, do we? What Republican men missed was that Latinos are natural Republicans. You just missed it completely. As usual. Your tin ear got got you tossed out on it again before you even got a chance.

So, because you didn't know your electorate, as you obviously don't quite know urban blacks now, you just let her go, cut her loose like a old beat up piece of bait off a fishing boat. That's when the Boxer-Feinstein duo got entrenched. Since both Senators are from the bay area of North California I feel doubly misrepresented. Thanks a lot for that, by the way.

I'll admit some of what Republicans have to fight is a media hell bent on destroying our best intentions toward the communities in which we're trying to make a difference. I've been on both sides so I know that it works both ways. Much of what we get is quite deserved.

This self-righteous behavior of the GOP has to stop, especially since some of our more indiscreet members who can't seem to handle themselves in public have shown. In other words, boys, come off it. The last few years have been a disaster for us because of your scandals (I didn't see any Republican women in sexcapades) and the old boys BS. It has to stop.

Moreover, I don't care to hear about how the press would have treat a Democrat in the same situation. It doesn't matter to me anymore. Save that argument for a cocktail party. Okay? Don't use it again in a interview. Please. It's insulting to every woman in the audience. And it really doesn't matter. It's been established that the media is slanted left. To say it again is boring.

There's another public spectacle that needs to be talked about which is asking one's wife to stand beside her husband as Spitzer and Craig, Vetter (?) did during their news conferences. If you allow that again as peers, I'll just give up on civilized behavior. That was outrageous public behavior and as gentlemen and peers it warranted public comment by all of you. I felt terrible for those women. As their husbands colleagues you owed them some respect by standing up to those men and that behavior. Anything goes? I don't think it should in Congress.

As I've said, Mr. Republican Men, we've had this discussion many, many times. Maybe this time you'll listen to me for a change about how to get elected and stay elected.

But then I'm just a dumb woman who represents millions and millions and millions of women who have the ability to reason and--ahem--vote.

(eyebrow arched, smiling, waiting for an answer, but knowing the answer will be some white governor of a southern state--how much you wanna bet--some things never change)

Thanks for the read anyway.

Hillary runs away with O'Reilly and the fork runs away with the spoon

I sat all morning visualizing these two who--without their aides knowing--made arrangements to meet later in the evening to watch The O'Reilly Factor.

There they linger in their stolen moment, a quiet rendezvous over drinks in the booth in the corner in the back in the dark. He sips a Coke (he doesn't drink alcohol--a good thing) and she slams a double Tanq on the rocks with three olives--a great thing. Good taste, Hill.

They gaze into one another's eyes. He's smitten; she is too. She adores tall, lanky men called Bill. He likes that brain of hers especially since Pennsylvania. (That's why she needs the Tanq.) Who knew? After all her years of O'Reilly/Fox avoidance Hillary and those big publishing types like Murdoch must get each other now. Good. It's about time. There's hope for lower taxes yet.

If it weren't for all those children and the two spouses , not to mention the morals ...maybe in a different time and place these two may have been today's clean alternative Bill and Hillary.

When I finally snapped out of it I sat down to write this post and finally with that imagery in mind the long awaited Hillary-O'Reilly interview began.

Senator Clinton, NOW you've found your voice!
What have we here. Finally a substantive discussion that every mainstream news outlet can eat their hearts out over. She's one tough woman. Tough. Tough. Why. I'd love to talk to her. She reminds me of someone very close to me.

My non plussed husband demands, "Well, hell, Andrea. Why doncha' just vote for her!?"

"I would," I casually answered, "if she'd get on the Republican ticket with McCain as Veep and keep moving center. In fact, I started liking her when she started talking dirty about Iran last weekend."

(smirk)

My husband left the room in a huff. Poor dear. He hates these election years.

Congratulations, Mrs. Clinton. You've broken through to women like me: we who thought you thought we were beneath you.

Keep this up and maybe some of the rest of us who are trying to be ourselves can break through to the other side too and be honest about what we really think without a bunch of people pushing us this way and that to say this and that to make everyone on earth happy but ourselves. (Some of us do that, whether we admit it or not, you know.)

You obviously were enjoying being yourself today, Senator Clinton, and it was refreshing. I may not vote for you (the tax and abortion thing) but I sure have seen a side of you that is admirable and extremely likable. In another place and time we probably would have been friends.

Ironically, it may be women like me--older white women--who could put you in the White House. Women like me who never had an scintilla of power in our lives. Hmmm. I'm getting a headache from all the...well, headiness.

This Bill brings out the best in you.

Thanks for the read.

Jack Mack is back in a big way on The View

If you've got the time and stomach, click below to watch Whoopie, Joy and Baba interview Senator John McCain.

I sure wish everyone had listened to us moderates when it counted back in 2000 when Bush and McCain were running against each other for president. But then, the party had to do its anointing thing to Sir Bush...so sickening.

Gee. We'd have a whole different world, wouldn't we?

http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index

The leadership gap between Obama and John McCain will be painfully clear by the time the American people vote on November 5th. That is, if Democrats still have their big turn out.

By then the young senator from Illinois might look like an amateur and real Dems will either vote for Senator McCain or get real drunk.

Or both. Just like they did with Reagan.

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There will be blood in the Clinton-Obama fight

It's the blood that attracts many of them to politics. It's the power that keeps them there. Get a taste of either one--the blood or the power-- and it seems hard for many of them to go back. Will Barack make that mistake?

Hillary was just playin wit jah, Barack
Numbskulls in the media thought Bill Clinton was being a nice boy while the reality was he was off breaking bones for Hillary. Downline, in south Texas and along the Ohio River Valley bosses were telling labor unions where they needed their boys and girls to do their jobs and they got it done. I'm sure the consequences were not good for screwing up. That's good.

Obama and his goodytwoshoes kids with their goodytwoshoes advisers guiding them didn't get it done because they're a bunch of dumb newbies. Regardless of their big money--poor implementation, as Dubya found out in Iraq--is everything, they don't have the horsepower, especially in Texas and Ohio against the Clintons.

This happens every generation. The Democrats destroy themselves, only this time the participants are post menopausal and are wearing pantyhose and wish like hell their husbands wouldn't sing "Viva Viagra" so much.

It doesn't take ESP
Who in the room doesn't believe Clinton won't be the nominee? The discussion now is how far will she go?



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Limbaugh: I wish we could kick him out of the GOP. Anyone?

(See also my piece dated February 8, 2008 in which I state my case against Limbaugh in more serious language.)

I think it's time for Rush Limbaugh to stop his assault on Senator McCain. Also, Limbaugh showed huge disrespect for our American system of government by asking Texas Republicans to basically cheat by voting in the primary for Hillary Clinton, which he shouldn't have done.

Get him out
Who does this guy really think he is?

The Republican leadership needs to shun him and his pals. Do we really want his influence, his humor, his ideas, his money? The GOP owes absolutely nothing to Limbaugh, contrary to what he says. They say our party is the Party of the Big Tent. Well, there ain't no tent big enough to hold Limbaugh, what with the head and the rest of it.

It's always an interesting part of human nature that pride follows the exact same route of delivery before you bust your butt on it.

One would think, wouldn't one, that Limbaugh's friends would at least see that he's gone a little too far this time and say, "Hey, Rush, dude...slow down. You're hittin hard on the Hillary thing in Texas. That's not right."

"Ah, screw 'em if they can't take a joke..." he replies as he has another grape peeled by a staff member.

No, instead, they're talking to each other, wondering how they're going to get back at the moderates like me for ignoring their excesses once again: "Hey, Annie, Laura. It's Rush. Yeah. Didya see Texas tonight? Yeah. I did it. Yeah. I. Did. It. Me. Yeah. I changed history. I'm puttin that Hillary broad in the White House. Me. Little ole Rusty from Cape Girardeau, MOE. The fat kid who couldn't get into Mizzou. Yeah, Thanks. I gotta admit it was fun. Aw, but McCain. What a downer. I really wanted to kill him...or somethin"

Guess Rush didn't really figure on how to play with a ex-POW guy. They're usually pretty tough opponents.

Meanwhile, I suppose when you get to certain levels of participation in the game of power, you'll switch sides just for the gamesmanship, especially if you consider yourself a loser at life.

It's the character, Stupid
Rush Limbaugh, the son of lawyers and judges is a spoiled brat who otherwise probably would have turned into a drunken, toothless, corpulent, petty criminal except by his accidental birth on the right side of the Missouri Pacific tracks.

It's time to cut Rusty loose from the GOP. Why? Because he's unrepentant. He won't stop. He just keeps doing it. Kinda like Bill Clinton.

The First Republican (my grandfather) will roll over in his grave if we don't.

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Texas Democrats will not allow an Obama win, IMHO

When I was a student at Texas Christian University I learned a little about Texas Democrat politics, and if I wanted to live, Texas football. Not a lot, but enough to know more than the media numbskulls who've never been there longer than two weeks.

Box 13, Jim Wells and Duval Counties, Texas
Easterners think they're so freakin' smart what with their Ivy League schools and their clubs and their ridiculous secret societies. Well, the rest of the country can be twits just like them, especially in Texas.

Power players like Jim Wright, former Democratic Speaker of the House, whose permanent office is located in the library at Texas Christian University, lavishly displays Texas individuality and influence on the rest of ya'll.

TCU,in Ft. Worth, Texas, is my brother's and my alma mater. This kid from Kansas City was considered a Yankee so I wasn't accepted very quickly. After a few lonely, bewidering days I was fortunate to have made some really close, quality Texas girlfriends, the ones whose mamas weren't sitting outside the soroity houses during Rush Week in their Cadillacs waiting for their Niemann-marcus card-carrying Honey Sues to pledge their fave soroities. But that's another article for my "Lucy" blog.

One girl, whose political leanings I won't mention, was another politics junkie like me. We had our own intellectual sorority. We clicked because we liked to believe we thought strategically, rather than with emotion. Of course, we were just kids and were probably just idiots. Don't get me wrong; we were also crazy about guys and getting away from our parents at all costs.

She was my new best friend (I was to be her maid-of-honor at her wedding) whose father was a well-known, major Texas pol from a huge south Texas city who gave me the skinny on dirty in-state politics. Maybe it was just girl talk; though later I read respectable historical pieces that substantiated her underground tales about "Landslide Lyndon" Johnson's rise in the senate, the dark side of the big bosses like George Parr, the political corruption of Jim Wells and Duval Counties, on and on. Of course, her information came from sitting around the Sunday dinner table.

This and other Lone Star State's political lore isn't new or hidden, but it does bear repeating: Texas Democrats have seen (and counted) dead people's votes in some southern Texas counties for decades now, a political fallback Senator Clinton may owe her gods for years to come.

Don't Mess with Texas
You read it as you enter, travel through and leave the state. It's probably important for outsiders to remember. Especially if you're new--and young--in politics.

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Temptation in the Garden of Barack Obama

(This is long. You may want to bring a book.)

I don't know what to think about Barack Obama. I want to like him. I do kind of like him in a respectful sort of way, except for his too-serious nature. I prefer my leaders to be spontaneous and given to fun: he is somber and dour. He has rather an economical sense of humor for my taste. I don't need zany, mind you, but a little Churchill would be nice or JFK or Reagan? Teddy and FDR are out of the question, I suppose.

Last night he seemed less bored, less bothered that he had to actually appear at the debate rather than phone it in.

He looks typical though of today's coming of age ruling class, 30 to 50 year olds, a blend of middle aged baby boomer power seekers and very, very rich gen x technocrats. All of them of course are auditioning for jobs in one power arena or another. They all think they're in charge. The me-first kids.

The more serious ones carry a hallmark: they are almost all short on manners--something I see when their mothers and wives are not around, mostly their mothers--and facts; when asked to support an outrageous statement, they typically change the subject and say something like, "but what's more important is..."

God bless them, they're like brand new religious converts, very zealous in their self-conscious, kiss-my-behind way, as-if-they-invented-it opinions and empty Armani styles. Some are shallow and intolerant of people they do not like. Actually, none of this is new, at least in politics. What is new is there's a woman in the room.

But to be fair, I'd like to look farther into this, to see where these whippersnapper Obama people might take us. Could they be right? They're the ones I'm talking about--those who have figured out the values issues (money, status issues, gone beyond the shallow stuff and Armani, ). Where are they in all this? Are they guilt ridden whites, angry, black reactionaries, what? And what is Barack Obama really about? I'm still not sure because all I'm hearing is something very repetitive and meaningless in the long term.

Boomer Box Barack
It is not necessary for Senator Obama to use his outdoor James Earl Jones voice in the preacher tone to get through to my little white pea brain. In fact, it insults the crap out of me, especially coming from a politician. After all, Barack (Barry) Obama is half white, a fact that no one has mentioned anywhere but--ahem--here. Well, he might get some white votes that way. By preaching, I mean.

Okay. We're family. I have to admit. I have fantasies. I've actually thought about voting for Obama.

Maybe, I thought, just maybe he could put the brakes on this black versus white undercurrent we have going on in this country, and the sky would open up, and a celestial choir would sing, and then I wondered...

Who is this Obama guy, anyway?
Senator Obama didn't exactly come up from the hood. He grew up in Hawaii, the only black kid in his class in an expensive Hawaiian prep school and was raised by liberal white grandparents. He did his undergraduate work at University of Hawaii and Occidental College, an expensive church school, got his JDs at the Ivies, then hit the streets as an activist, i.e., organizer, (will someone tell me what that is and who pays for it?). Then he ran for office, lost; ran again and he won; ran for the U.S. Senate and won.

Senator Obama, Michelle and the kids live in a monstrosity in Chicago some obviously grateful Chicaaaagoan gave him between hambiggers and da Bears games. *

Senator Obama says his dad is from Kenya and was the son of a poor goat herder. Actually, his dad was from a family of goat herders; they have thousands of acres of land and thousand of goats and homes worth many, many goat hides. Goat herding has been very good to them. His dad, an economist who worked for the Kenyan government, abandoned him and his mother when Senator Obama was 2. Unfortunately, Obama, Sr. committed suicide later in Senator Obama's childhood. The senator bonded with his Kenyan kin in 2000.

There's not much out there about the white side of Senator Obama's family except his mother came from Kansas and met his father while at the University of Hawaii. It's interesting her background is so muted. As a politico, I have to assume there are problems with the black vote and it's being done to keep attention from his mulattoness. Too bad. As someone who is very liberal in the civil rights area, it's almost as disappointing to me as Michelle's revealing statements--kind of like a slap, a pitcher of cold water in my face as if none of America's white activists sacrificed enough or were good enough for her or him or had done enough to help the civil rights movement.

Such ambivalence, frankly, causes me to wonder if Senator Obama knows himself as much as he claims to. I don't want Obama as president if he can't give credit where credit is due.

Senator Obama's policy stands
Of course, in the debate last night, no one corrected the candidate as he cavalierly cited some phantom, made up stats and notions on the war or on anything for else that matter (NAFTA) so I was left screaming, "Will someone please challenge him?!"

I disagree completely with Senator Obama's stance on Iraq and for that reason alone I could not and would not vote for him. Besides, he's grinding the truth so much even my teeth hurt.

Mrs. Clinton, of course, is also lying through her own teeth and will stay in Iraq for as long as we need. I trust her take the Iraq War to its conclusion. She knows the stakes. I'm telling you, this woman is tough. Too bad she's not a Republican. She'd be a good moderate.

As far as the Senator's hindsight, it is laughable. He has actually minimized the middle east situation into a game of R isk (Tom Hayden is one of his advisers? I heard Dick Gregory's looking for a gig--he'll provide his own case of Ensure.) He speaks in terms of whether the world "likes" us, using it in the same sentence with the strategy word. I don't feel he has a sense of understanding threats to the country, from Muslim terrorist states and terrorists themselves.

Here's the thing. Can Senator Obama, who believes in Israel's right to exist, as he declared last evening with such ferocity, as well as plainly shunning Louis Farrakhan's endorsement, be so naive as to place Israel at risk as we abandon Iraq? Worse, is he that horribly stupid or is he actually lying?

In which case, what? We elect a face? A leader? An orator? A shill? A henpecked man? Take a chance?

Maybe the only differences among all three candidates are the domestic ones, in which case, what are the real differences? There is a national election in which there will be two distinct choices.

The temptation has passed.


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*Personally I am very proud that race relations in this country have reached the point where a black woman, Michelle Robinson Obama, was literally given funds and scholarships for entrance into Ivy League schools, while my kids schlepped through state schools, a fabulous house in Chicago and a bitchin' career in a big city--all during my adult lifetime. On top of it all, she may even get to be first lady, all by accident of birth, almost like an white European princess. Wow. What a country!

Hillary. Fly to Reno and divorce Bill. Tonight.

You could still win the primary next week!

Seriously.

Feminists are reaping what they sowed. They turned the other way while their gal got under a powerful man to get to the top--not a particularly feminist way of, well, making it.

Sure 'nuf. Here she is, almost at the busting-through place, and now she can't! Why? She has to play nicey-nice because all the little 30 and 40 year-old spoiled media boys and girls don't like older women who yell; and then call her names and comment on her looks. (Yeah, I did too. I was wrong.) Besides, they have much more fun with people their own age--like that nice Obama boy down the street. Too bad most of them can't read. Hillary should have come out mean and got meaner. She had nothing to lose.

The problem is she's not authentic and everyone knows it. That's why women run from her when the real thing came along. Too bad. They'd have stayed probably, but with Bill, that selfish SOB, who sidelined Hillary, and couldn't even let her have this, no way, especially when he embarrassed her so badly in the campaign. Bill has literally ruined her life. What a particularly bitter experience for this woman.

Jeez. What a crock. They're each other's trophies. Sad.

Regardless, I don't like how the press has treated Senator Clinton, even if she has deserved some of it. Some. After so much toughness this far in the campaign, she deserves much, much more respect. After all, she is an individual running for president, not a woman running for president and that's what's pissing me off.

Yeah, Hillary. If you divorce Bill, I'll vote for ya. And get every woman I know to do it too. This is the only way to avoid humiliation and come out on top by yourself.

More on Prince Barack tomorrow.

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Polishing my opinion of Barack Obama...

This will be ongoing with discoveries and my reactions as the campaign rolls along. I've a few already. I suspect there will be many, many more. Let's look at the candidate together for a change.


A Che Guevera poster hangs in his campaign offices.

He refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance early in his campaign for president.

He says he was not raised in a Muslim madrassa; there are indications that he was. Would this make the president of the US more Jihadist target?

This could or could not be a problem, depending upon your point of view. After all, as president he's a target anyway and might well be safer! That may be moot.

Those are three issues which need verification and debate. Frankly, until they hit the major news outlets, I'm not going to think about them yet. They do bother me a lot though if they are true.

America has been very good to you, Michelle
How disappointing to hear Michelle Obama, Barack's accomplished wife, confess this is the first time in her adult life she is really proud of her country.

Really, Michelle? That same country that sent you to an Ivy League school? The same one who just freed 78 million people in Iraq, 28 million in Afghanistan, millions more in the twentieth century? Really, Michelle?

You mean the country that admits the horrors of what it has done to some of your ancestors and has actually ameliorated itself to the point of finding ways for you, the great granddaughter of wronged people, to become a first lady of that country that you're just now proud of? Wow.

Just wow.

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Time for much needed R & R

But I'll be back in a few weeks or so, rough and ready with reasons why no one should vote for the Democrat come November.

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Limbaugh: "I don't wanna feel it" or "There ain't no Oxycontin at the Hanoi Hilton."

I've always held regular, good Dems to the task of taking on their own extremists. The most respectable Dem of all, Senator Joseph Lieberman, and others took their crazy left on. Not many others had the cajones; as I recall, their presidential candidates jumped through hoops at the Moveon.Org’s “convention.” Isn’t it interesting how the extremes on either side end up looking like one another?

I wanna be the leader! No, I wanna be the leader!
The embittered, power-hungry, wannabe neo-establishment of the Republican Party came out of their clubhouse this week, e.g., Dobson, who finally gets his excuse to vote for a fellow preacher, which what he's wanted all the time...not that's there's anything wrong with that. I wish he could be less abrasive about announcing his choice. Dobson's still a Republican, isn't he

And Limbaugh? Well, it's clear what little Rushie does when he gets mad. He lashes out. Then when one of the greater generation, Bob Dole, asks him respectfully to knock it off, he disses the Senator as if he has nothing more to say.

It’s show time!
This is about power, mostly. These small-souled boys and girls (Ingraham, Coulter) from Hodunk, Wherever, have hit the mother lode and if they make more noise, they achieve more of a sense of power and control. It probably feels good to have millions of people think you're the smartest person in the room, if you're totally out of touch with reality and you haven't landed emotionally. None of these people seemed to have done so, except for Dobson, perhaps. Maybe. Otherwise, why the meaness?

I feel that at the bottom of this unfortunate internicine war being waged against Senator McCain, our presumptive candidate, their fellow Republican, POW, and war hero is human jealousy. Why else would you put the country, the party and the McCains through this if not for your respective inconoclastic, selfish, prurient reasons, Mr. Limbaugh, Dr. Dobson. Mss. Coulter, Ingraham? Has he not won fair and square so far? Has he run a corrupt campaign? Why this outrage?

It's my party, too
Moreover, for the right's information, Senator McCain has taken on many of the questionable items on the right's agenda in order to represent me, some the rest of us, another Republican, who hardly ever is allowed so much as a "Uh, gee, maybe we need to rethink some of this." McCain knew Rumsfeld was a problem; he said so. McCain knew our troop levels were inadequate; he said so. The examples go on.

What the right wing doesn't want to accept is that they have not won the Republican Party's heart and soul. They're sore losers and bad sports, which is interesting considering they loved their greatest generation mythology (the greatness of their own people, their ancestors) so much they're standing in sand trying not to be real. They're on another planet now.

Yeah, we liked Reagan too. He wasn't, however, St. Ronald. As you recall, he had some differences within the party that looked suspiciously like betrayal to the right. He also had two families, like John McCain.

Yeah, we moderates understand what the principles of conservatism are and mostly agree. My favorite insult, by the way, from Rush Limbaugh is I have no values if I'm a moderate. Do you love it? It is precisely my values of compromise, fair play and common ground shared by most Republicans, which save us from the inflexibility, the intolerance of other's ideas, the egos, the hubris, the reationary mistakes made that comes with too much power on either side. I hired myself for the job as a moderate Republican to keep my eye on people like Limbaugh to make sure he's not speaking for me.

I bought this microphone, Mr. Limbaugh
These silly, ridiculous talking heads couldn't even endure one day of the torture and abuse from primary elections, let alone what John McCain took for years; after all, Oxycontin wasn't usually approved for pain at the Hanoi Hilton.

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Call to Mr. Blackwell: Talk to Hillary about those awful suits, please!

Someone at Menopause Central needs to slip a call to Mr. Blackwell. Maybe then Hillary would get the hint. Good grief. You're a woman; dress like one. She has lovely hair, skin, jewelry and her coloring is beautiful so there's no reason for her to look like her staff, the Huns, just hijacked a Salvation Army truck.

Gold is definitely not her color
She must associate gold with royalty. I noticed she's worn it three times in one week: one was a wide lapelled, ugly, ugly pantsuit (does this woman have legs or do we have to wait for her own memorial to find out?). She wore that one twice. Then the second one, a more understated number, plain as Jane, but gold. The only difference in most of her get-ups is the color, usually dark.

Then there was another attempt--the gray and black Nehru suit top--which she's thrown on three or four times. Of course, that power jacket got its share of laughs.

She has worn her wardrobe out, I'd say. If she's going to president of the United States, I would appreciate her trying to become more fashionable. She ought to look at Andrea Mitchell, for instance. She has fabulous taste and knows what looks good on camera. You'll have to forgive my insensitivity to the old gal, but really, she's trying to tell young women they gotta look ugly too to become president? No wonder older white men do not like her. The fact that she refuses to act the part bothers me.

Just find something more refined, Mrs. Clinton. Clothes don't only make the man, they also make the woman regardless of size.

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