I read about this on Huffpo, who was quoting Politico, who obviously got the scoop during a creepy conference call bordering on group phone-sex session with Matt Drudge. I'm not linking to any of these freaks.
Apparently, McCain's official leakers have signaled to the press (called their friends on the phone) and floated the idea that Colin Powell is under consideration (being discussed) as a conceptual possibility (potentially cast in the part) as running mate for The Dumbass from Arizona.
This is hilarious, and not just because the idea of John McCain having a running partner is visually ironic, and not just because this is obviously an unimaginative game McCain's team is playing to make him seem hip and Mavericky before he falls back on George Romney's Idiot Son, announcing the team-up over a hot Double Guantanamo at Starbucks after dismounting from their official caravan of long SUV-Limos (Newest model: The Ford Ejaculate).
If these people are serious about voting McCain if Hillary doesn't win the nomination, then these people are serious about ending women's rights in America.
We've been waiting for this forever. For Hillary Clinton to finally admit that her vote for the Iraq war was a mistake, and that being human is one of the reasons why she made that mistake.
And we're going to keep on waiting for that until the last star in our universe fades into nothingness.
The more I think about Geraldine Ferraro's smug racist comments on behalf of Hillary Clinton, the more I think I'm growing to hate the entire Democratic Party.
Every now and then, when I get completely depressed about the world as it is today, I take the time to imagine another world. A world the should have been. A world with President Al Gore, no Iraq war, no September 11, an amazing Government response to a storm which might not have done as much damage to New Orleans, and a Constitution treated as something more than just an old piece of paper.
And then I think about all of the different reasons why the world is not as it should be.
Our candidates, no matter how we might feel about them, are both far too intelligent to be wasting their time and ours by participating in conversations under village idiot control.
There are many questions both candidates still need to be confronted with on stage, by actual thinking humans, concerning Iraq, healthcare, civil rights, torture, lobbyists, and the economy. And these questions need to be framed within the context of reality, unlike everything we've seen thus far in this campaign.
The primaries have turned me even more angry and bitter, cynical and sad than the inaction of our Congressional leadership has. I didn't think that was possible, and infact I thought it would be quite the opposite. You see, I had a dream one night. It wasn't the usual dream, where Blackwater brutally takes over America after Bush declares Martial Law and all of our armed forces are broken or overseas and can't stop armed Religio-Fascists from acting out scenes from the Left Behind videogame.
No, it was a different dream. My dream was that our Presidential Candidates in and out of the Senate would actually try to show us what leaders they're capable of being while campaigning, instead of speaking in empty platitudes, promises, and trash-talking. I will now address the four Democratic candidates still in the race one at a time, and tell them why none of them have earned my vote so far in the primary.
By the end of the week, the House and Senate planned to vote on a $50 billion measure for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill would require Bush to initiate troop withdrawals immediately with the goal of ending combat by December 2008.
Hi there. This is my first diary. I had no idea that my first diary would be all about how I don't like the Clintons anymore, but that's just how it is. I'm sick of the way Hilary was ushered by the press (from the beginning) into "inevitability" status, I'm sick of Hillary's Oprah shtick, I'm sick of her lack of leadership on all issues, especially foreign policy, the environment, and healthcare, I'm sick of the way they shill for big business, and I'm sick, most of all, of their sanctimonious tone. They weren't always like this, but I suppose this is now the end-product of being slandered, smeared, and abused in many other morbid and depraved ways by the Grand Wizard Party for nearly two decades. The Republicans' intention was to systematically destroy them, and to an extent I now think they've succeeded: The Clintons just aren't nice to Americans all the time anymore.
