Month: June 2008

Update [2008-6-1 12:25:22 by Steven D]: Bitter? Who’s bitter? (Also posted by btchakir on the rec list)

Clinton refuses to go gently into that good night. Instead she looks to Puerto Rico to reanimate the rotting corpse of her campaign. The Washington Post’s Anne “I’m not a stenographer!” Kornblut and Shailagh “the Devil” Murray give us the details:

Almost five months after the Democratic campaign season officially began on a freezing Tuesday in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) appears headed toward a last easy victory here today in a contest that has been largely overshadowed by the efforts of party officials to bring the nominating process to an orderly close.

Don’t you love that word choice there: “a contest that has been largely overshadowed” by those nasty party officials trying to end Hillary Clinton’s camapign prematurely (yeah, I’m reading between the lines on that last part there). I wonder who suggested that phrase to Anne (or was it Shaleigh?). Hard to believe they thought of it all by their lonesomes.

But “Hush Steven!” you say. I want to hear more about Saint Hilary of the Clinton’s last chance to slay the evil Black Dragon, Barack Obamasama, who threatens the last chance the peaceful denizens of Democratic Partyland have to wrest control over all of White Christendom (in the New World) from the Avignon Presidency and its new pretender to the crown, John of the McCain.

Well you are my readers so, despite my desire to spare you more of the horrors of this war, your wish is my command:

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“Campaigning in Puerto Rico is like one long Puerto Rican Day Parade,” Clinton said at one stop, referring to the annual celebration in New York City. “It is incredibly energizing, exciting.”

Yes, so much fun. Never having lived in New York City I’ve missed the spectacle of the famous Puerto Rican Day Parade, but I’m sure St. Hillary hasn’t missed one since … since whenever she moved to Harlem Chappaqua to take up the banner on behalf of the good folk of New York. She may be white, but that doesn’t mean she can’t get her zapatos de baile on whenever the need to celebrate with her Puerto Rican supporters arises. I’m so happy for her that she’s having such a good time as she fight the good fight against the armenaza de negro, aren’t you? Too bad there aren’t enough faithful Puerto Rican Clintonistas to help her slay the beast with one final mighty blow:

Election officials are preparing for underwhelming turnout, estimating that a quarter or fewer of the island’s 2.3 million registered voters will go to the polls. That would mark a record low in a year when Democratic turnout in many states has shattered records. But there are no local candidates or initiatives on the ballot, and the battle between Clinton and Obama appears all but over.

I guess even stenographers and demons can see the handwriting on the wall, even if the heroine of this cruzada cannot.

This is just informed speculation based mostly on who is advising or has endorsed Barack Obama and (for the most part) people’s areas of experience. If Bill Richardson isn’t the veep, I really can’t find a slot for him because he’s already been the Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the United Nations. Perhaps he will get to be Secretary of State but he already has heavy competition from Sens. Biden and Hagel. Anyway, this is just for general idea purposes:

Vice President of the United States- Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of State- Chuck Hagel/ Susan Rice
Secretary of the Treasury- Stuart Eizenstat/ Austan Goolsbee

Secretary of Defense- Sam Nunn/ Richard Danzig

Attorney General- John Edwards/ Artur Davis

Secretary of the Interior- Lincoln Chafee
Secretary of Agriculture- Bob Casey, Jr.
Secretary of Commerce- Howard Dean

Secretary of Labor- David Bonior
Secretary of Health and Human Services- Hillary Clinton
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development- Carol Mosely-Braun
Secretary of Transportation- Nick Rahall
Secretary of Energy- Anna Eshoo
Secretary of Education- Lynn Woolsey
Secretary of Veterans Affairs- Max Cleland
Secretary of Homeland Security- Gary Hart/Bennie Thompson

White House Chief of Staff- Tom Daschle
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency- Hilda Solis
Director of the Office of Management and Budget- Jeffrey Liebman
Director of the National Drug Control Policy- Anthony Zinni
United States Trade Representative- Daniel Tarullo

Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System- Larry Summers
Commissioner of the Social Security Administration- Bill Bradley
Director of National Intelligence- Lawrence Korb

There’s someone who gets it:

Rudd has said the Iraq deployment has made Australia more of a target for terrorism.

Though the damage is already done, from the invasion and occupation, the hatreds intensified, new enemies established,  Australia ends Iraq combat operations, after their five years of wrongly following the failed policies of the U.S. and joining the small contingent of the coalition of the willing.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was swept into office in November largely on the promise that he would bring home the country’s 550 combat troops by the middle of 2008.

And from around Australia:

Troops heading home

About 500 Australian combat troops today have begun pulling out of their base in southern Iraq.
A British military spokesman in the southern city of Basra said the pullout from Talil base in Nassiriya was underway.
But a spokesman for the governor of Dhi Qar province said it had been completed, with US forces replacing the Australians.

Troops begin arriving home from Iraq

AUSTRALIAN troops have begun arriving home from Iraq, signalling an end to the nation’s combat mission in the war-torn country and fulfilling an election promise made by Kevin Rudd.

Iraq Diggers back in Brisbane

The first of about 500 soldiers from the Overwatch Battle Group (West) 4 and Australia’s Army Training Team reportedly touched down in Brisbane late this afternoon.

Troops begin arriving home from Iraq

Mr Rudd, who ousted John Howard’s coalition government after 12 years at last November’s election, promised to bring home frontline troops this year.
During his prime ministership, Mr Howard repeatedly said the troops should stay until the job was done, arguing Labor’s plan to “cut and run” from Iraq would galvanise terrorists.
Polls show 80 per cent of Australians oppose the war.

There’s that mind control phrase ‘cut and run’.

One doesn’t cut and run from an extremely failed policy that ‘galvanises’ hatred in others, from the killing of their own and destruction of their country, especially when they have done Nothing to deserve that Devastating Carnage, based on lie after lie after lie………………………., of those who sent their own to invade and occupy, Controll, and reigning Terror on them while calling them Terrorists!

When will this Nation start the Drawdown, and our Newspapers have ‘Breaking News’ headlines in Huge Print declaring the return of our troops from a conflict that should never have occurred and has placed this country and it’s citizens in greater danger, that danger will exist, to many now truely despise our countries leaders and us the people of, but it will start the extremely long process of righting the dangerous direction set forth by the Power Hungry and War Profitteers!

Was this organized or what? Hillary’s most extreme supporters are not taking the Rules Committee’s decision with any kind of good sportsmanship. For instance:

This must bring joy to Harold Ickes’ heart as he and Hillary threaten a push toward the Credentials Committee.

Does Hillary have pride in this kind of support? Will she get anywhere with the “popular vote” argument? Obviously, as the Puerto Rican primary goes down today, she thinks she will, delegate totals or not.

It’s interesting that hurricane season starts today… we’re about to have a political hurricane which could blow over some media trees. But remember… after a hurricane life goes on. We patch things up here and there and go forward with our lives.

I don’t think Obama is too worried.

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