Money: In February, Obama raised about $55 million, Clinton about $38 million, and McCain about $11 million. Controversy pays. The Dems will spend over half a billion dollars to nominate a candidate. I don't know the GOP number, but it's real money. There is something just a little crazy about this process.
Muslim extremists: This seems like too nice a term. Four American and one Austrian contractor were kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago. This week their captors sent five severed fingers to U.S. authorities as "proof of life." DNA analysis confirms they are from the captives. It would be a really bad thing if these people win.
Gov. Richardson's endorsement of Obama must really hurt. He's known the Clinton's forever. They gave him his first big job. Bill went to NM to watch the Superbowl with him, and yet he went with the enemy, no doubt taking a few Hispanic votes with him. What does he know that we'd like to know?
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Real money indeed. And for what? To apply for a job that most people wouldn't take if handed to them. (although it does come with a pretty cool house).
Richardson may have figured there were already too many people lined up at the trough in the Clinton camp. Or, he figured that if Clinton did get the nomination, she'd be so damaged she couldn't win the general election (my theory).
I can't get into the win/lose thing with these middle east crackpots. We have to come up with a different vocabluary to describe the endgame here.
I think Richardson sees Obama as a transformational President who could change the way the US is viewed in the world. The Governor sees himself as the foreign policy guy in that administration. Not a bad idea; a good match.
How can you look at the better part of 7 years since 9/11 and OBL still at large and not think something is wrong with this country. GWB has turned our society upside down using security as an excuse and we are doing the fool's errand in Iraq, I have to take my shoes off to get on an airplane, and there is a never ending line of people willing to step up and blow themselves up for martyrdom. We are missing on a few fronts. We obviously have no first rate minds working on this problem. Could the structure of our system be stifling creative solutions to this very real threat. Doesn't this whole thing smell of our country's policy on drugs? Beat up the operatives, the big fish rarely get caught, and there is no end to the supply and demand.
Another thing to consider. If we find the concept of martyrdom to be reprehensible, we should reconsider the concept of heaven, angels and miracles: time to seriously look at science and cut some fat off of those aspects of religion which mirror the worst elements of our enemies.
Maureen Dowd today seems to think the Clinton's chickens are now coming home to roost (to borrow a Rev. Wright metaphor). There are a lot of people who don't like them.
Look at the three cards in your hand. You can only keep one. Do you want Billary? We have seen their nonsense. Do you want the old soldier who wants to stay the course? Or do you want to go with something unknown and, supposedly different. The pieces on the board have proven to be stuck in justification for entrenchment. There is no resolve or motivation for anything other the same old hammer pounding the same old nails leaving the rest of us hanging out to dry. Ralph Nader might turn out correct in that the system is stuck in the hands of interests who feel they will be able to keep power and prevail while the rest of us wither on the vine. My gut tells me that both Hillary and John will just extend our problems.
Hankster is as eloquent as usual. Clinton and McCain are quite simply more of the same -- Democrat or Republican. Clinton seems to want (needs?) to be president because she seems to think it's owed to her. McCain's the nominee because the rest of the circus clowns the republicans had to offer couldn't convince even a small portion of their base that they could do the job.
Obama may get flayed but he's the only one that offers even a glimmer of hope that there could be a different way out of this mess.
You all seem to have drunk the Obama cool-aid, and that's OK, but you are selling McCain short. We aren't electing a party, we're electing a leader, and JM is the only proven leader in the field; plus he has a long record of not being a part of the "politics as usual" crowd. He is the man Barack wants to be when he grows up.
It's not so much that I've imbibed any Obama Kool-aid. It's just that the other flavors are so God awful.
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