ONE MORE TIME; MONTANA & SOUTH DAKOTA PREVIEW (BISON STEAKS W/ KUCHEN FOR DESSERT)
June 3rd, 2008, 11:03 am · 1 Comment · posted by Dan Lehr
& so here we are on the last primary day! Hard to believe that the 2008 Iowa caucuses were just a short 17 years ago.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video.& we’re closing with Big Sky Country & the Mount Rushmore state. What do the polls tell us? Who cares? The endgame is nearly upon us, & today’s outcome will likely not change a thing.
Nope! Now it’s a matter of waiting for this particular historical metaphor to happen (indulge us, please)…
or…. maybe not?
Stay tuned! It’s only going to get more exciting from here.
Hey, why not impress your friends & go ahead & call what will happen in the next 72 hours!
..nothing?
..she (finally) capitulates?
..he offers her the VP ticket?
What? Give us your best guess!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
OK This race is WAY too stressful for me to continue to follow, so consider this my parting comment on this circus that is posing as “election coverage.”
Here is why Hillary shouldn’t become President. She is a good politician, but she doesn’t actually stand for anything and she doesn’t actually have any core beliefs. She stands for what ever will get her elected.
Think about it. Her campaign was failing in the beginning, because she ran on being the “experienced strong leader - commander-in-chief” type of leader who would be ready on “day one” to take the world stage and kick butt. That didn’t work. She floundered for a while, conducted a few more “focus groups,” hired a few more pollsters and figured out how to tap into the worst instincts of the remaining voters. She became the “champion of the ‘hard working white people’ and the ‘blue collar’ baroness. It’s not that she believes anything in particular, but that she figured out how to “connect” with a group of people by telling them what they wanted to hear.
Obama, on the other hand, has remained remarkably consistant about what his core beliefs are. You might not agree with him, but I have not seen any attempts on his part to “re-invent himself” during the campaign. When ever I hear a politician is trying to “re-invent” themselves, it almost always means, they are transitioning into - morphing into - a fresh new series of lies about who they really are.
It sickens me that the media plays along and refuses to call Clinton on her “blue collar” make over. Before Pennsylvania, I never saw Clinton wearing powder blue pantsuits with too much eye shaddow. Since Pennsylvania she has even changed her accent. This is rediculous.
Wake up America. Our leaders should be chosen from among the very small handful of sincere leaders who just happen to have ideas and approaches that capture the imagination of the American people and propel us forward into a positive future.
The first Clinton Presidency was a disaster because the Clintons did not have a set of core beliefs. Thier strategy was to morph themselves into what ever public opinion seemed to expect. They made no real attempt to mold and craft consensus. That type of amoral approach to governing is extremely dangerous and lends itself to all manor of excess which eventually lead to Bill’s impeachment.
Don’t be fooled friends.
Gary Bonner, Baltimore, Maryland