Tag: Hillary Clinton

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Pandering to the non-elite

Many of the reasons people dislike politics include: 1) the exorbitant amount of money paid on “campaigning” for the job including advertising both for your points and pointing out your opponents “flaws” when even a fraction of which could feed, cloth and educate not only Africa but much of our own country, 2) attempt to cast themselves as central to the political spectrum as possible even though once elected their true intentions and beliefs become reveled, 3) but mostly I think one of the biggest peeves of voters is politicians whom are puppets to the “issues” within the markets and polls they are about to pitch to and then they pander shamelessly to those markets knowing full well just last week they made a completely different pitch or character.

The latest in the Hill camp is the position against Obama that he’s made some comments perceived by her campaign as a position of “elitism” mean while she touts her past as a gun toting church girl that grew up shooting behind the barn at the lake.

She’s been going on and on about this sound bite and that she’s an every woman, can hack it with the blue collar folk in PA but when asked when the last time she fired a gun or attended church services she responds “is not a relevant question in this debate” and “We can answer that some other time,”….”I went to church on Easter. I mean, so?” What the fuck is that BS? She’s the one making and issue yet she’s not one to own up to her own representation of an Indianan or a west Penn tax payer.

There’s been a lot of attacks on Obama’s statement that the working man are bitter which is where this whole “elitist” comment came out of and ya know what.. yes people are bitter of the direction of this country has gone with the economy, the war and now the polticing that has been played. Here’s a few PA residents both parroting Barack’s comments that the people are bitter.. received by surprisingly Faux News

Hill now takes this pandering completely out of control by drinking budwiper with the PA steel works, then turning Hyde by getting pressured into taking shots of Canadian whiskey: Crown Royal… a non-American cocktail served in a violet velvet satchel named with two of the most “elite” words in English language. Next she wants to claim Barack is elite? Get the fuck out of here again!

By the way… What’s a definition of “elite”? – representing the most choice, select or the best

If that’s the case then yeah… maybe Hill is right on… Obama is an elite candidate for the Presidency.

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Obama and Hill’s Voting Record in Senate

Anyone who has been around politics, and is honest, realizes that there are a lot of reasons why a Senator votes one way or another on bills or misses votes. However an examination of the bills that each of these Senators cared enough about to author and introduce revealed much to me: what they care about, what their priorities are, how they tackle problems. And the list of co-sponsors showed something about how they lead, inspire and work with others. Finally, looking at which bills actually passed is pretty indicative of how effective each would be at getting things done.

Obama has introduced bills on health care, energy, Iran, voting, veterans, global warming, campaign finance and lobbyists, Blackwater, global poverty, nuclear proliferation, and education.

Obama appears to have a better record last year in the Senate on getting his bills and amendments passed than does Clinton.

Obama is a leader. With bigger majorities in Congress, much of his agenda should sail through. He can inspire this country to change course on so many things, from health care to global warming, where attitudes have to be changed first. I remember Bill Clinton’s endless laundry lists of small, focus group approved initiatives. For those who say Hillary will not govern like Bill did, I respond that the people who were doing the market testing of his proposed policies were Dick Morris, of course, and Mark Penn, who is now running Hillary’s campaign.

From Daily KOS

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The whole cashew-raisin balance is askew!

Larry David has a spot on Huffington Post to blog about his thoughts and whatever. In three years he’s written 4 posts, so most of the time, his wacky genius ends up on the most hilarious tv no longer on cable television (Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm : “Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I’m deaf and I try to imagine what it’s like not to be able to hear them. It’s not that bad. “). So when he does write publicly, there’s got to be a few gems.

He’s been lured back to his PC based on the Hillary phone ad:

I watched, transfixed, as she took the 3 a.m. call…and I was afraid…very afraid. Suddenly, I realized the last thing this country needs is that woman anywhere near a phone. I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew.

And his thoughts on her next steps:

There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost. Every day, she reminds me more and more of Adele H., who also had an obsession that drove her insane.

She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere — somewhere far away, where there are…no phones.

The full blog and even his reading of it here.