February 22, 2007
The Buzzards are Circling
Hillary's in trouble, and we're still a year out from the primaries. Not only does Hollywood seem to be abandoning her for Barack Obama (I guess all those overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom have been forgotten), but ex-Senator and former Democrat Senate leader Tom Daschle has given his formal endorsement to Obama the Boy Wonder.
Daschle said Obama has a "great capacity to unify our country and inspire a new generation of young Americans, just as I was inspired by the Kennedys and Martin Luther King when I was young."
Frankly, I hardly call Obama inspiring as a leader. He has a pleasant voice and knows how to work a crowd, but so does a carnival barker. But today's media seems to prefer style over substance. Otherwise, why would they be giving credence to a man who has not really proven his leadership and gives us feel-good platitudes instead of firm policy plans?
Hillary has chosen to take the low road with Hollywood's abandonment. Her campaign has started what the NY Post calls a "mud fight" over the fact that movie gazillionaire David Geffen not only donated to Obama's campaign, but said some singularly unflattering things about Hillary. My favorite:
"Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it's troubling," he was quoted as saying.
It's too bad that it took Geffen so long to figure it out, but perhaps he's proof that not all those who were blinded by the Clintons in the '90s are beyond redemption. Now if they'd just vote Republican...
Well, it's probably too much to hope for a miracle of that magnitude.
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Please don't assume that there are only two real candidates for President in 2008, an impression the media for inexplicable reasons would like most Americans to believe or accept.
We in New Mexico and Westerners in general take New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson very seriously, and point to the Nevada forum yesterday, where he did very very well, and yet not a word in today's New York Times. It is shortsighted and seriously flawed thinking by media and by pundits which ignores such a candidate of Richardson's calibre, at least in the context of New York politics.
His resume is a breath of international fresh air, and he has more real governmental experience than Hillary and Obama PUT TOGETHER! Richardson was re-elected to a second term by a record number (70%) and I am certain he is going to pull in a huge number of Hispanic votes, particularly in California, Texas, and Florida. We need an internationalist as in former UN Ambassador to help rebuild the ravaged US international perception after 6 years of corporate manipulation and plutocracy, a nation run by the Halliburtons of America.
We think Richardson is the right person for the job. We've seen him in action with the Legislature here, and his legislative agenda as President can be discerned by his efforts at the state level.
Stephen Fox
Posted by: STEPHEN FOX at February 22, 2007 08:19 PMI'll be happy to pile up on Richardson along with the other Democrat contenders; he just has to do or say something I can sink my teeth into.
Seriously, the WaPo article that covered his entrance into the race talked a lot about his "long resume," but didn't have much detail about it. So I'm just waiting to hear more.
Posted by: Pam at February 23, 2007 04:03 PM
