Filed Under: National, Politics
No, seriously. It’s getting to the point where neither of them are taking any snipes at Bush, McCain or the Republican party with any degree of regularity that they sling mud at one another. Meanwhile, “100 more years” McCain’s sailing relatively smoothly along in his coronation considering he apparently wants to continue the war’s escalation a la Vietnam. Now that he’s apparently tolerating (or even accepting) Bush’s support as something other than the Kiss of Death and professional election spoiler Ralph Nader’s joined the fray, perhaps they can edit their rhetoric towards something that helps us all move forward in the right direction.
Don’t get me wrong: I prefer Hillary, if but for the fact that she’s weathered - nay, thrived in - the neo-cons’ vile invective for her long career. She knows exactly why the 1993 health care plan failed (the budget) and, if we are going to get a universal health care plan in America in my generation - and that’s a big if - it’s going to be under her. But I’m not so adamant that it’s Hillary Or Bust considering what’s at stake here. I’d rather both candidates at this time honed their considerable ability on making sure we actually win the general election.
Sure, the Republican party’s destroyed the economy through overspending on unwinnable foreign wars and dismantling important federal institutions (cough, cough, NEA, cough, EPA) while removing regulations (important ones, like ones that stop banks from giving out - and subsequently selling - terribly bad loans) and watching domestic programs go under - even ones they started. Sure they’ve done all that, but they’ve also got pretty much every important member of their cabinet retired or transferred before injunctions could be levied against them by the stillborn Democratic majority. I don’t know what strings have been pulled, but we can’t even impeach what is now officially the most unpopular president in the history of the United States and is arguably the worst.
Simply put, the election is not in the bag. Not by a long shot, what with the spineless fools we have. But either Barack or Hillary is eons better than anything else we can put and it’s important we give them the biggest mandate possible to deal with the epic clusterfuck we’ve gotten into.
So I ask the two top Democratic candidates: Can you to please shut the fuck up about each other and start burying McCain and the crazies who are keeping Huckabee in the race?
You must be logged in to post a comment.
At about 1:45 am computer #1 goes BANG. Smells of burnt silicon. Thin veil of smoke. Mmm.
Currently 4:30am now and the RAM, video card (now SLI’d), DVD burners and SATA HD are in computer #2, thankfully running smoothly.
Time to buy a new power supply. Maybe replace those parts in computer #1 along with a new […]
Took a cab from Gowanus back to Washington Heights yesterday after a few drinks. Well, not all the way. Only from when I realized after transferring to the A that it’d be local and only go to 168th.
Romanian guy, really nice. Wife was a teacher back home, tried it out here; left after two weeks. […]
So Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary by 10%, which means the election will be won in the convention. Hello, two more months of cringing at every stupid nonsensical bullshit gaffe either makes over the other while we stare at the calender and will McCain’s early death.
Speaking of gaffes, what happened while we were talking about […]
[…] The smart thing to have done in this case, Clinton, was to shut the fuck up. […]
March 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm