primary

I’ve been a cynic about the election from day one and when some of my European friends asked me what the chances were that we would get a black President I told them to stop dreaming. Amazingly enough, Barack Obama has indeed inspired so many people that he’s actually ahead of the woman that everyone called the front runner before the race had even begun - Hillary Clinton.

What’s interesting to watch, other than the fact that ABC made complete fools out of themselves during the last televised debate, is how Hillary Clinton is re-adjusting her game as things go. If anyone had said years ago that Clinton would very difficult to distinguish from Senator Mcain, surely many people would have been surprised. Today, it seems normal that Clinton is touting the same kind of rhetoric that our great president has been using throughout the past years. Clinton, when asked how she would react to a nuclear attack against Iran, replied by stating that she would “obliterate” Iran. Nothing like using strategic rhetoric to keep the door of communication open with the rest of the world.

People keep talking about character and how it’s important to them in terms of deciding on the new presidential nominee. I personally don’t think that’s very important but if you do look at what Hillary Clinton has done in her career it’s rather obvious to see what’s going on. She’ll say anything, do anything in order to make her PR campaign known to the nation. She accused Barack of being elitist, but hasn’t pumped her own gas in ages. To me it seems if her marriage really was a strong blow to her, and to make up for it she’s running for president. I wouldn’t have any problem with her running except that i think she’s so damn phony that I have a hard time watching her on TV.

I believe Hillary Clinton has been in Washington for so long, that she knows how to pander to certain groups of people. Now of course she’s pandering to the right, and I hope to some deity that she doesn’t become the nominee. Thinks are looking good but who knows.

I wonder what she will say next to move another step closer towards fulfilling her dream, not that of the United States.

Is anything either of the Democratic Presidential Hopefuls says binding? Not at all. Do either of the candidates have any records pushing for the topics they now stand behind so strongly? Also negative. Let us be very clear on what’s going on here. It’s called sweet talk. Not straight-talk, not genuine-talk - but sweet talk. The story you give your Mom when you’re trying to go out again on a Friday night though she’s skeptical. “Of course I’ll be home before 1:00AM, no I won’t drink any alcohol, of course I won’t smoke pot Mom!” We’ve all been there - or the most of us I would say. This is exactly what we’re currently seeing with the Democratic Candidates. Hillary seems to be willing to say anything that will advance her cause.

When it comes to pulling our troops out of Iraq - she says yes to everything. Will you pull out our troops when you become President? “Yes!” - will you leave troops in the country? “Yes!” Will we have to keep a certain contigent of troops there to protect American interests? “Yes”. I would love to be the person asking the questions here because I would follow up with “Can you define what American interests are?” and secondly, “how can you claim that you’re going to pull our troops out of the country where we’re building the largest US embassy in the world there?”.

Of course to neither of the questions would we receive a straight up answer, because Politicians are trained not to answer questions. The reason for this is the fact that straight answers would reveal too much of the truth. The discrepancy between what Politicians say and what’s really going on is usually very stark. The feeling that I’m getting here is that neither of them are really going to do what they say, and there isn’t a thing we can about it. It’s not like Candidates have to fill out a form with all the points they plan to address and we can reference that at a later point in time. Instead what we get is the usual sweat talk that’s starting to piss me off more and more as the days go on.

I was listening to the Bill Press radio show this morning and either he or someone else said something that I believe to be true for myself. When the Primary Campaigns started, the notion I got from the people I spoke to was that any Democratic Candidate would suffice. Now however myself and many others feel slightly different about that. The reason in my case is the fact that the candidates that spoke the most truth, aren’t in the race anymore. What’s more, the candidates remaining aren’t speaking about any truly problematic issues. What about the invasion of privacy? What about the fact that our military is in shambles? Why isn’t the blackwater issue more of a topic? Because those are issues that you can’t get a majority of people behind you. They are controversial issues and they require someone to take a hard stance - a stance that most presidential candidates aren’t willing to take at this point because I’m sure that pollsters are telling them not to.

To sum it up I think it’s safe to say that many people are looking at the Primaries and are thinking that we’re being fooled, once again.

It’s March 10 in a presidential campaign that promises to go on much longer than anyone needs or cares for. With McCain as the Republican nominee we have nothing else to look for besides the actual Presidential campaign. When the primaries began, I was of the opinion that any candidate will be an improvement on what we currently have in place with George W. Bush and realistically that hasn’t changed much. What if the Democrats lose though? That’s the question that’s going on in my head.

It’s hard to find any measures where the Democrats have been decisive since the successful campaign of 2004. Instead what we find is that Obama and Clinton are starting to waste their energy on each other. If Hillary really only had the best in store for the country, she wouldn’t consider redoing the primaries in Florida. When some of the states held their primaries early, knowing that the delegate count wouldn’t be taken into consideration for the overall election I don’t recall Hillary crying for a recount. At the time it was a nice opportunity for her to show a fake win, which is what the Florida primary election ended up being since Obama didn’t even campaign in that state.

I’ve heard the argument on various websites and radio shows, which is that instead of attacking each other, the Democratic candidates should focus their attention on John McCain. The democratic party needs to unite and not show how it can devour itself. Hillary Clinton then said a few days ago that John McCain has a lifetime of experience, just as she does and that Obama only had a speech. Unless I’m not understanding the gist of this comment I think it means that both Clinton and McCain have the experience needed and Obama doesn’t. So that means that Hillary would be OK with McCain being president since he has the experience needed. I thought she only wanted the best for the country? Or is it all about her? I think the answer to this question is obvious. The candidates are in a race to win and unfortunately what will happen is that people will get sick of the democrats before the actual Presidential campaign. Rarely has there been such opportunity to take over the steering wheel from an incapable driver yet I fear that this might not happen out of whatever reason.

I seriously have to debate whether I’m going to stay in this country if we get Bush 3.0 (McCain). I’m very concerned about the fact that neither of the current Democratic candidates are spending a lot of time talking about all the measures that have to be reversed. From the Partiot Act, to the Military Commissions Act, various Tax cuts. Realistically the next President has to be spend years just repealing everything that was brought upon this country. Instead, Clinton is spending her time trying to discredit Obama.

I know, I know - it’s my own damn fault I watch O’Reilly. Why? Well, it’s 4:40 AM I’m at work, and where else to find something to rant about than on Trash-TV channel Fox News.

Bill is talking about the fact that news coverage around the primary campaign isn’t fair.

This one’s for you Joe. I’m watching the news here at 6:34 AM at work and there he is again - standing behind McCain. It reminds me of what a scum bag that guy really is. I mean not much different than many other politicians whose only purpose in life seems to be to get ahead in life. We come across these type of people in every part of our life. Whether it’s your supervisor at work where you can’t figure out how he got the job (no I’m not talking about my supervisor - I actually think he’s very well qualified to do his job).

So we call Osama bin Laden and his gang terrorists and their belief system is exactly like Mike Huckabee’s it seems. Drop the rule of law and put the bible in place. Muslims live by the Koran, and where I respect every society to practice the culture they want to, I just think they’re behind on things. We believed in everything the Church said a few hundred years ago and slowly but surely, science came into play and it brought us to where we are now.

Mike Huckabee is a fanatical religious wing nut just like Osama bin Laden - he fools people because he can crack jokes, he’s actually funny, plays bass in a band - what instruments does Osama play I wonder….

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I’m sure nobody’s even watching the primaries. That’s a sad thing really considering we’re coming up on what’s probably one of the most important elections in ages. Over the past few weeks I’ve been watching the happenings on TV and all I can say is: premature. First of all these are just the primaries and they’re getting more attention than a NASCAR race. Secondly everyone and their mother is of course now a political “pundit” a “pollster” or “political strategist” and each one of them seems to know exactly how everything is going to play out in the primaries.