green eggs and ham meet barack obama

I do not want him in a box.

I do not want him with a fox.

I do not want him in a house.





I do not want him with a mouse.


I do not want him here or there.
I do not want him anywhere.
I do not want barack obama.
I do not want him, Sam-I-ama.

count the votes!

politics overload

approaching doneness

Obama the misunderstood

He speaks, then his supporters swarm to explain. Whether it's the question of attending Reverend Wright's church for 20 years, the bitterness of small town voters, who typical white people are, or the meaning of unconditional diplomacy. Apparently, for all his supposed eloquence, it takes a village to explain what Obama means when he speaks. This seems to apply to his wife too, whose patriotism or lack thereof must be repackaged and interpreted for us to understand them correctly.

His new campaign song.

One Day of Peace

There are less than two weeks left to the end of this primary season. I promise to vote for Obama in November if I can have one day of peace in which the drumbeats don't sound for her to quit. Four months ago in February Jonathan Alter said, in Newsweek, it would be nice, it would be gracious if Hillary dropped out. The drums haven't quit since. Hear me now. She didn't quit then, she's not quitting now, she's not quitting tomorrow.

Yesterday I was depressed

But today I'm thinking about the primary in Kentucky and it looks good for her. I've read some okay things about how women are determined to stand by her! Long shot for the top of the ticket. Maybe 50-50 for the VP.

The opportunity we are throwing away

Hillary Clinton is surely one of the greatest female political figures of our time, brought down, in my view, by her male colleagues who championed and rallied around Barack Obama, a first term senator whose celebrity was ascending on Capitol Hill. Urged by them to grab the spotlight of the moment they succeeded in derailing their own party's frontrunner and dividing the party in half. On the eve of what is most likely the end of her campaign for the presidency of the United States I think it is appropriate to honor her by quoting from a speech she gave in China in the 1990's on the theme of gender, a speech ranked by American Rhetoric at 35 of the top 100 speeches on their website.

Women's Rights are Human Rights

" ... I believe that now, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break the silence. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.

These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:

It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.

It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated.

It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.

It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard."

screw the pundits!

politics as usual

The boys sang her praises as they crushed news coverage of her West Virginian victory. They can mouth whatever niceties they like -- I am unmoved -- their actions speak louder than words. The Edwards endorsement spectacle was a transparent ploy to deny Hillary Clinton anything positive in the evening news cycle on her landslide victory. Obama seems unwilling (not to mention unable) to just beat her at the polls. He seems bent on her complete humiliation. Wow, the high road. So noble.

Obama democrats writing the bible

Like Eve in the Garden of Eden, Hillary Clinton is now considered the source of everything bad in the world, the spoiler of paradise. Well, I don't subscribe to that religion.

Hilly says Thanks -- I say You're Welcome!!!!

a cat can dream

I hope she hammers him in West Virginia

So what else is new? Will she? Who knows.

fluffy says Joe blows

His True Colors -- We knew it in our heart of hearts, but hate to admit it

Maybe he really does love Hill, but it's for sure he'd like to see mayhem at the Dem convention. Sigh.

she calls the shots

indiana and north carolina

how could he win? we all voted for her!

stop the insanity

dreaming of 2 wins

another kitten for Clinton!

keep your eyes on the prize!

Has he already won?

No. He hasn't. Being ahead is not the same as winning.

I wish I had a nickel for every time

an Obama surrogate says "What he meant was ..."

I am of the opinion that Barack Obama is a good speech maker but not a good communicator. That's why he sucks in debates, that's why he sucks in small gatherings of voters, that's why he sucks when responding off the cuff to reporters. He hems, he haws, and he looks like he's a hundred miles away as he ever so slowly gets one word out after another.