Down and Dirty with the Dems

In what should be an exciting time, politically, the insane backbiting and underhanded sleaze of the 2008 Presidential "hopefuls" is taking the shape of what can only be on par with the ridiculousness that is, as my dad calls it, "Big Time Wrestling" -- or is it?

The Washington Post is reporting that Dem wannabes, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton want to see a smaller more serious group for debate, claiming that if the group was smaller and only contained serious candidates, we would see the differences between them. Of course, Edwards went on to backtrack after being challenged on the issue by Ohio hopeful Dennis Kucinich.

I have to say, I like Kucinich--he has some spunk, and wicked comb over--and his underlying knowledge that he doesn't really have a chance in this hell of an arena gives him the opportunity to be the grain of sand in the pants of folks like Edwards and Clinton, who are too touchy-feely-sickening-politicos to stomp his ass like they could if only they grew some real balls.

It has oft been said that politics is not for the faint of heart... it is also not for the honest, law-abiding types... yet, sadly, it no longer has any character. "Clusterfuck to the White House" is nothing but a group of pandering perverts of the worst order.

I'm not sure why I had any inking of hope that Edwards and Clinton were better than this... they aren't... they are fervently pushing anyone off the cliff they safely can--a united front for the betterment of the process while they try to come up a with a way to screw the other without leaving any DNA evidence.

"When a defensive type of war is being fought, that is to say, when the guerrilla band is endeavoring to prohibit the passage of an invasion column beyond a certain point, the action becomes a war of positions; but always at the outset it should have the factor of surprise. In this case, since trenches as well as other defensive systems that will be easily observable by the peasants are going to be used, it is necessary that these latter remain in the friendly zone." ~ Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare

Politics via feline behaviour

There is no question that when it comes to my cats, Calvin is bourgeois through and through. He even looks French, with his little goatee... all he needs is a beret. Bowie, now we all know that Bowie is a throughbred Commie cat. Two brothers, seemingly at political odds, and yet, they cuddle together in the condo at least 4-5 times a week. The other two, well, who knows? What I do know is that Jake and Bowie are at constant odds iver territory and Vinnie is like the Swiss--hiding in the closet half the time. I think the main point we can take away from this that the Cold War was not about Communism and the Iraqi war is not about terrorism. So really, we are no further than when I started this post.

Just a thought

Nearly everyday, there is a headline about 30, 40, 50, 169 people killed in another country, namely Iraq (which goes to show that those atrocities in other countries don't even rate a headline), through some kind of bomb... and they are very low profile headlines... nothing that sticks out and tries to grab the attention, tries to elicit sympathies... there aren't pictures of the families mourning or troops securing the area. So while I think that the VA Tech shootings are horrific, I find it appalling that we pay no attention to the same tragedies that are befallen other countries. The situtation might be considered different... a campus isn't a war zone, at least not in a militaristic sense. We are immune to violence, yet enthralled with it and when it happens close to home, to something we can see and understand, it is memorialized. It's just a thought, but one that makes me wonder how we can so apathetically overlook worse atrocities just because the culture is foreign, just because the religion isn't Christian, just because it happens in a place most people can't point to on a map.