Clinton
Be careful what you say in kindergarten. It might come back to haunt you…
Well I thought I’d seen it all, but in the realm of political dirt slinging, this is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever read:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has used words attributed to Sen. Barack Obama from when he was a kindergartner — and from when he was in third grade — to accuse him of “rewriting history” when he says he hasn’t been planning for a long time to run for president. -[USA Today Political Blog]
So apparently Hilary Clinton’s latest round of mud slinging is citing an essay Barack Obama wrote while in an Indonesian kindergarten. In kindergarten folks. Kindergarten. Apparently this is proof of his disingenuity, since he claimed to have started his political drive for the presidency much, much later in life. She might as well have said “My dad can beat up your dad”, given the juvenile quality of that argument.
Seriously, how many of you wanted to be president when you were in kindergarten? Please by show of hands. Put your hand up dagnabbit. Yes, you, in the tee shirt, I’m talking to you. We all know you wanted the presidency when you were in kindergarten. And you are clearly not raising your hand. Yes, I can see you ya little dweeb. Raise that grubby little paw or I’ll come over there and do it for you. And I can guarantee you don’t want that. And you, yes you in the dress shirt, you too… Thank you. You can all put your hands down.
OK now by show of hands, (don’t make me call you out again. You know who you are…) how many of you ran for the presidency after when you became a legal adult? After you bought your first car? First house? Got married? Had kids? After the kids left for college? Uh huh. That’s what I thought…
You bunch of low down, dirty, conniving, lying, scum bags…
Clinton digs into Obama’s kindergarten musings – [USA Today Political Blog]
Politics Suck. That’s pretty much the gist of it.
When I hit the “New Post” button for this, I intended to rant about how the Clinton/Obama debate had gotten completely off track. But as I sat here thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that it’s an incredible waste of time.
I’m beginning to think that politics is basically just a great big corrupting machine. This fact hit doubly hard when I realized that somehow, the opinions of Mikhail Gorbachev made more sense (for the most part) than that of my own government. The fact that our presidential hopefuls are at each others throats rather than attacking problems isn’t helping my confidence in the future of the country much either.
07/28/2007 – UPDATE :
Now with added Cleavage!!
Clinton-Obama flap shifts race to negative tone – [Yahoo/Reuters]
Gorbachev blasts American ‘imperialism’ – [Yahoo/AP]
Washington split over Clinton cleavage – [Yahoo/AFP]
Presidential Shenanigans…
“I’m finding a lot of things funny lately. But I don’t think they are.” – Ellen Ripley (From the movie “Alien: Resurrection”)
Was reading a “funny” article earlier today about the White House response to the Clintons’ criticism of President Bushs’ commutation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s sentence (wow that was a mouthful!!):
Scott Stanzel, a White House deputy press secretary, said that, “When you think about the previous administration and the 11th-hour, fire-sale pardons … it’s really startling that they have the gall to criticize what we believe is a very considered, a very deliberate approach to a very unique case.” – [Yahoo/AP]
The article goes on to describe how White House officials compared the commutation of “Scooter” Libbys’ sentence to the 140 or so odd pardons granted by former president Bill Clinton just before he left the office.
OK. Now I’m neither a politician or a lawyer, So I’m not going to even attempt to navigate the minefield that is the relationship between the White House and Mr. “Scooter” Libby, but I can certainly see a big difference between a pardon granted to a “fugitive financier”, and that of a government agent who’s position was such that any irresponsible actions could very well compromise national security, and in so doing, the safety and well being of the American people.
Not to mention that, according to the article, there is apparently no legal language that allows a person that has served no time to be given a probationary sentence. Maybe I’m just be being sensationalist. Or splitting hairs. But something smells fishy. And it’s overpowering the salmon I had for dinner. I’m calling shenanigans. How ’bout you…?
White House reacts to Clintons’ comments – [Yahoo/AP]
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