We've got to thank Barack Obama. It looks like he has sealed Hillary Clinton's fate. Yes, Slick Hillary will continue with her false smiles and false assurances, but everything is beginning to ring hollow. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary got out of the race soon.
The Democratic primaries sure have been fun. To me they have been reminiscent of the Iran-Iraq war. Needless to say, I have been hoping for heavy casualties on both sides! Hillary's attacks on Obama have taken a toll. It was especially gratifying to hear Hillary make the argument that both she and McCain are vastly more experienced than Obama. Surely McCain will get some mileage out of that in the next several months. Hillary also raised questions about whether Obama can be trusted in an emergency. Again, this is a theme that can only benefit McCain. Between the questions raised by Hillary and the doubts raised by Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama's reputation has been tarnished.
Ambivalent though I am about Obama, I must credit him with saving the nation from the prospect of another Clinton presidency. For eight years the Clintons used the Oval Office for personal self-aggrandizement, renting out the Lincoln bedroom, selling pardons, and chasing around the hired help. Yes, Bill was the lecher, but Hillary was the enabler. I wonder if this is the "experience" she has been touting on the campaign, since I'm not sure what else she accomplished over her eight years as First Lady. Finally America may be ridding itself of this cunning, opportunistic duo.
Contrast the Clintons with other recent presidencies and the difference becomes apparent. Many people disagree with and even loathe Bush but it's hard to say that Bush became president for personal gain. All the folks who said he invaded Iraq for the sake of oil interests have never shown Bush to be the beneficiary of any such gains. By contrast, the Clintons came to Washington virtually broke and have been cashing in since day one. Now the couple since has a net worth in excess of $100 million. Is there any precedent for such self-enrichment? George H.W. Bush and Reagan and Ford and Carter had their share of Oval Office troubles but all of them involved disagreements about policy. No one suggested that these men were using their office for their own benefit. The Clintons are clearly in a low class of their own.
Good riddance to the Clintons also means good riddance to the era of the 1960s. The self-indulgent, megalomaniacal sixties generation is not only an embarassment to itself, it also represents the great failure of the World War II generation. For all its accomplishments, the "greatest generation" failed in one significant respect: it couldn't replicate itself but produced instead the spoiled children of the Clinton generation.
This November, America will have a choice between an independent-minded candidate of the World War II generation and an inspiring but also troubling candidate of the post-sixties generation. Meanwhile, it appears, two sullen, resentful Clintons will be watching from the wings.
Reader Comments ( Page 27 of 28)
391. "388. Tatiana,
Actually, there IS rehab for stupid. It's called education- but it's terribly painful to the rehabee and often causes worse brain damage."
By stupid, I meant unintelligent. Education
can cure ignorance but but not a lack of intelligence. Sadly, there's still no cure for that...and there seems to be an epidemic.
Tatiana at 12:46AM on May 14th 2008
392. were it so simple to say adios to a putz like you
ItIsWhatItIs at 1:55AM on May 14th 2008
393. bump
kumar at 7:06AM on May 14th 2008
394. bump
Strados at 8:16AM on May 14th 2008
395. HOPEFULLY HILLARY RUNS AS A PROGRESSIVE. WHILE PEOPLE ARE HATING ON HILLARY, YOU HAD BETTER WATCH OUT FOR OBAMA (I AM A BLACK WOMAN, W/ BLACK CHILDREN AND A BLACK MAN). HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED. I HOPE HILLARY STAYS IN THE RACE AND EVEN IF SHE DROPS OUT, I WILL BE WRITING HER IN (NOBODY CARES ABOUT FLORIDA'S VOTE ANYWAY, ESP. THE DNC).
JacksonWells at 8:54AM on May 14th 2008
396. Robert post 380 - Only if the Lord sends me back as the avenging angel to pour out His wrath on this unthankful, selfish generation. Other than that I'll be singing gospel songs unto our Lord and Saviour.
Goddess1 - I do agree about the tragedy in Burma, and the earthquake in China. More appalled about the governments not allowing the help to pour in. Sad, sad situation.
Man_in_Wilderness at 9:32AM on May 14th 2008
397. Here is a little (NT) PROPHECY for you.
Matthew 24:3 – 8 “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
The end times men will be as wicked as the days of Noah.
Man_in_Wilderness at 9:40AM on May 14th 2008
398. Man_in_Wilderness,
There will always be wars, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, and divers. Earthquake ≠ Apocalypse.
Mokele Mbembe at 10:12AM on May 14th 2008
399. Man_in_Wilderness
Don't you get tired of writing, and thinking of all the negative material? Jesus said he brought good news, and it seems like almost all you write about is a downer.
Jerry Brown at 11:09AM on May 14th 2008
400. Mokele post 395 - yes we will, but more so as the time gets near.
JB post 396 - Those are the words that Jesus spoke of. Matthew 24: Anyways, anyhows, and therefore... on one hand it is a downer, because of the chaos, and destruction. On the other hand, the righteous shall soon be removed, and the wrath of God will be poured out on the devil and his followers.
Whether you like it or not, or mean to or not, you are following either God, or the devil. So all the self serving, materialistic crowd is following their father the devil and don't even know it.
TomB post 397 - you are a socialist coward. McCain is a left leaning republican, or a right leaning democrat. Obama is a racist, socialist, anti - American.
Man_in_Wilderness at 12:22PM on May 14th 2008
401. Man_in_Wilderness
Why don't you answer my question? I am very well aware what Jesus said according to the bible.
Jerry Brown at 12:39PM on May 14th 2008
402. 352. Dear GHB,
If I may... MATTER+DATA(INFORMATION)=CONSCIOUSNESS=SPIRIT!
WHOA! DUDE! And I thought my learning on the spiritual was (almost) complete! If you will forgive me, that one statement gives me fodder for a Screenplay I am working on (an adaptation of an old novel) and I fully intend on using it! What a concept- THANK YOU & MAHALO VERY MUCH! WHOA!!! A matter/data matrix that is the 'essence' of "God". Did you come up with that, or do I have to credit someone else?
Robert at 9:58PM on May 13th 2008
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If you may... completely change it, you mean.
I meant it as I said it, matter being informational in nature. Differences between elements are numerical. Matter itself is, in my "big mind' speculations, just a data pattern within the larger data pattern we call the universe. Energy is matter, we already know. But matter and energy are simply data, if we consider this reality like a huge mind rather than a place. Memories, thoughts, all data. But so are our bodies, just a more lasting kind of data. I see the universe as interactions between data patterns in a huge fractal universe. But I'm weird that way.
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:09PM on May 14th 2008
403. More like a mind than a universe. Patterns repeat at different levels throughout, hence the fractal. And my coincidences are due to strange attractors.
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:11PM on May 14th 2008
404. Jerry Brown, on reading my posts to you I seem to be acting confrontational. Don't know where that came from, because that's not how I was feeling. Sorry. We tend to aqgree on most things anyhow, so why would I be upset with you? No, it's just my style tends to be direct, a bit too much so at tiems.
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:37PM on May 14th 2008
405. Although, matter (brain) plus information (reasoning and intuition and stored data) does equal consciousness. So that's right too, in a way.
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:40PM on May 14th 2008