The Tanya Harding Option

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/dnc-official-cl.html

There is impending sense of desperation both within the Clinton campaign and amongst Clinton supporters. Though the ‘Tonya Harding option’ is the term from an anonymous DNC staffer, it is apt description of Hillary’s situation. Like a insanely jealous ex-lover she would rather no one can have the nomination if she can’t. Her willingness to commit political murder-suicide with Obama, is apparent when Bill Clinton is let off the leash and implies that Obama doesn’t love America. As it becomes more and more likely that she will not become the Democratic Nominee for 2008, she will throw everything in the works even it insures a McCain’s victory.

Super Tuesday Aftermath

To the defenders of GOP's policy of splitting Michigan and Florida delegates, we won't see the benefits of either DNC or GOP reaction to states breaking party rules until 2012. If in 2011 every republican primary is moved a full year forward to catch a jump on the other states knowing the worst the RNC will do is halve their delegates, so be it, Chris Mathews and Brian Williams and Tim Russert and Faux News will still fawn over any state that flouts RNC directions. On the other hand if Dean shows his back bone and really will not seat the delegates from states that broke party rules then certainly no state would be willing cross the DNC 4 years later.
As far as the super delegates, there are over 800 of them! Seriously if you think that Hillary can win the nomination with the 160 she has today, sorry it just won't happen. Obama's 50 super delegates aren't going to win him the nomination either. The 600 super delegates that are waiting to see how the primaries result in a clear winner and/or looking to see who will poll better against McCain in the general election they will be the king makers. John Edwards and his 26 pledged delegates are looking pretty influential now that delegate results (sans super delegates) are nearly tied.

Finally, if Hillary can not raise any money from the grassroots simply because she is uninspiring then she certainly is the one that Howard Dean will have to coax out of running. I;m from NY and almost a tautology of elected officials here are for Hillary mostly because of fear that Obama isn't tough enough, too much of a peacenik to make a strong argument that he will be able to keep the country safe. President Bush certainly isn't lacking machismoism and bravado; He will never be considered a dovish politician and yet the country has certainly lost security through his bellicose foreign policy. On September 12th, 2001 there were 6 Billion inhabitants that could easily recognize who were the good guys and who were the bad guys. On September 12th, 2001 there were millions of muslim, arabic, and or middle eastern Americans that had already rejected religous fundamentalists of their old home countries and chose America over the culture of fake-martydom that Sayyid Qutb, and Osama Bin Laden promotes. On September 12th, 2001 we could say that the World Trade Center was the largest in muslim deaths of any single terrorist attack or single western Military attack. Alqueda began with the bombing of Kobar towers attacking fellow muslims and yet the U.S. continues to frame the problem with ourselves against all muslims and that the problem can be solved militarily. Sen. John McCain, President George W. Bush, and Sen. Hillary Clinton all suffer the same perspective in that the tool they have in the tool box is hammer (military), therefore every problem looks like a nail (a war).

Barack Obama was willing to stick his head out to be cut back in 2002, when he openly opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq despite it being massively popular. He supports the war in Afghanistan, therefore is far from a pacifist. He is the only plausible next-president that actually can and wants to make peace in the world.

Greatest Episode Ever!

I could not be more satisfied than by last night's Simpsons.

Iran: Zero Margin for Error - December 5, 2007 - The New York Sun

Iran: Zero Margin for Error - December 5, 2007 - The New York Sun

August 8th , 2001: Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Osama Bin Laden intent to strike within the United States"

August 2003: Bush is told by Stephen Hadley, member of National Security Council, that we have new intelligence regarding Iran NUCLEAR program. Bush response (according to his statement yesterday) was nothing; the President had no response at all!

Today DINO (Democrat in name only) New York Assemblyman Rory Lancman becomes a Bush apologist, writing this article for the New York Sun that puts forth the article that because we have been erratic with our military and threaten Iran with everything from an airstrike to preemptive invasion to a first-use of bunker busting nuclear weapons against Iran. This revelation that Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can scared into not developing nuclear weapons by allowing our president act like a crackhead... oh wait Ahmadinejad wasn't president when we found out that the Iranian Nuclear program was halted. Moderate Mohammad Khatami was the one that halted the nuclear program so the argument that the U.S.'s saber rattling had a positive result with our dealings with Iran is entirely specious. In August 2003 the White House made no mention of Iranian influence in Iraq, made head fake towards military action towards Iran, made no threat that Iran could have reacted to to halt their nuclear program.

I would like you, dear reader, to think back of the time that our government learned that Iran halted their nuclear program. Bush administration had still been claiming there was WMDs in Iraq despite occupying the country for five months. White House spokesman Ari Fleisher was stating from behind the podium their isn't that much looting "its the same vase being carried out, just shown over and over." Vice President Dick Cheney claiming that just dead-enders are fighting American troops. Viceroy Paul Bremer was embarking on the de-baathification of Iraq.

Amidst all this, OUR nation's intelligence service confirmed that the Iranian nuclear program was halted.

According to Bush's statement yesterday he discovered this fact that last Wednesday! Will this revelation change the minds of pro-war hawks and DINOs like Sen. Joe Lieberman and NY Assemblyman Rory Lancman? Nope, actually it appears to strengthen their resolve to send even more of other's sons and daughters to harms way. Who cares if China gets another Trillion dollars of our debt, crazy war-hawks want to invade and occupy another country. Who cares that our addiction to petroleum is leading to our nation's destruction, lets build and use nuclear weapons against a nation that doesn't have nuclear weapons. Who cares that we are building a perpetual permanent war-time economy without the benefit of national full employment, lets ignore the warning of the last 5 star general in Eisenhower's "Military Industrial Complex" speech.

It is highly possibly that we have a change party in the White House and yet not have a change in bellicosity towards the rest of the world. The truth is that no matter whom resides in the White House we have always been at war with Eastasia or Eurasia. There may be a point the future that we can not even imagine a world without Big Brother (or Sister) calling the dance; telling us this week we have always owned and occupied and have historical rights to natural resources of Iraq or Iran or Valenzuela or Nigeria. It matters that OUR government withholds the truth from us. We can entrust the neo-cons (of both parties) to seek the truth, they are like street prostitutes who are beaten by their pimps and say 'but really loves me.'