How did you find my blog? I figured you more of a Politico or Salon reader, not a obscure personal blog that for the time being is obsessing on the Democratic Primary. Be sure to leave a comment.
I admire you. To be honest, I am an Obama supporter but I do admire you. In any other year, you would have been my candidate. But I drank the kool-aid. Not all kool-aid is Jim Jones bad . The kind I drank is the good kind, no calories, multi-fruit and with electrolytes.
I know you thought you were going to win. Everyone thought this was your year. But you got out-campaigned. In hindsight I think you would agree that the big money-focused, top down approach did not work so well. There was sexism (and racism), but that is not why you lost. You lost because someone else got more votes and more delegates. Don’t try to make the arithmetic argument. Your math is screwy. My 12 year old sees its flawed logic. You have lost.
Please suspend, end or concede your campaign, you can call it whatever you want. Sure, lets do Puerto Rico (cause the road to the White House goes through PR) and of course South Dakota and Montana need to vote. The RBC will probably seat 1/2 the Florida delegates, which is what you were asking for just a few weeks ago. But the goal posts moved for you and the only way you are going to get all the delegates you want is if you take it to the Convention. You know, it might not even matter if they seat them all if the super delegates continue to go to Obama. But anywhoo, taking it to the convention is not good for the party or good for the November outcome.
Now, you need to vote on June 4th, its your own private election. You need to vote whether or not to do the right thing for the party and your country, or very likely ensure a John McCain presidency. Please let it go. Let me really admire you again and drop out. And don’t forget to leave a comment.
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PS Do you like the photo I chose. I think you look beautiful here…
First, it really pisses me off that there is a right, as in good, answer to this question. Personally, I don’t care if Obama is a Muslim. It would not be a deal breaker for me if he was. But the fact is that being a Muslim is a political handicap given our country’s embarrassing lack of understanding of everything Islam. So, despite much of what has been suggested, inferred, innuendoed or bashed over your head, he is not, nor ever has been a Muslim. Don’t believe me, below find the answer to this very stupid, albeit inflammatory question.
OK, I am guilty of sensationalism. But just a minute, there is a connection and it is not that they are both guilty of drug induced, grizzly mass murders. That would be hyperbole.
When I was 7 years old, Charles Manson was busy committing horrible, terrorizing bloody murders in Southern California. We were living in San Francisco when, at around the same time, the Zodiac Murders began. I do remember conversations in my house about it, especially by my older siblings. It is any wonder I was able to get a goodnight’s sleep. In college, I took a comparative non-fiction class and together we read the highly stylized In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and Vincent Bugliosi’s tome Helter Skelter . The latter is a detailed-filled, must read, retelling of the the cult, the murders and the trial of Charlie and the “girls”. Both books are chilling, but only one has body location maps and bloody police photos of the crime scenes. It really is a great, but frightening read.
What do George Bush and Charles Manson have in common? Vincent Buglisosi has written well researched, and reviewed books about their respective crimes against humanity. Published next week, Buglisosi makes the argument that if George Bush, lied, and/or withheld information to make the very public argument for war, he is guilty of the murder of hundreds of thousands Iraqi people killed in the military operation. If the brown people’s lives don’t have value, then how about the thousands of dead and disabled military personnel from the coalition of the willing?? The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Don’t get me wrong, I love sports. I was a tomboy and am proud to say I listened to many a baseball game on a transistor radio as a kid. I am in possession of a serious amount of baseball knowledge, both statistical and historical. I am probably one of the few high functioning females who can keep a box score. I am well versed in the rules of most spectator sports (Ice Hockey would be my weakness) and am a rabid futbol fan, especially when we get into national team cup championships.
But I have to say, I hit a limit today. I have 3 boys, 2 of which watch and play sports enthusiastically. The other one enjoys when we all get together in the family room to watch a game because he will have the computer to himself with little interference from his brothers. Today there was a triple hitter: The UEFA cup Championships (Manchester United vs Chelsea), Boca vs Atlas (Libertador Cup semi) and the New York Yankees finally winning vs Baltimore. From 4:00 until 9:00 (when we finally sent the boys to bed) it was utter chaos and frantic energy. Nothing gets the boys worked up like a good sports event. I spent most of the 5 hours telling Henry and Owen to “stop jumping around on the furniture, quit it with the spitballs, clean up the spilled drink, stop wrestling, tables are not for standing on, move away from the front of the TV, and PLEASE sit down!!”
It was not all out of control children, here is a little something for everyone, especially the ladies. You may want to mute the play by play unless you speak Korean.
Yes, its Tuesday and there are some primaries going on (Kentucky/Clinton and Oregon/Obama). No surprises tonight. Clinton wins the third leg in the Appalachian triple crown (West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania) in another blowout. The hillbillies hard working white people in these states wont vote for Obama. Oregon looks good for Obama but I wont stay up until midnight Buenos Aires time for the mail-in ballots to be counted. But this obvious outcome doesn’t keep me from checking the political blogs, streaming Rachael Maddow, and ignoring the blah blah of CNN’s”best political team on television”. I have a disease. Does my predilection for posting cute animals make me more sympathetic or pathetic?
Not because this is disgusting, but because my body has failed me. I have a head full of snot and a family of bacteria that seems to be traveling right into my Achilles heel, my sinuses. Wish me luck and a good night’s sleep.
First the Good. He is a good guy and a courageous guy. Just watch his video, it says it all. There are ways to support his legal defense effort or just send him an email and say “right on”.
Now the Bad.
Kathleen Parker. She is bad. Somehow her syndicated column gets picked up at the WaPo on occasion. She is a bigot or stupid or both, cant tell. I am getting use to the idea that there are still people that feel this way, but I am having a hard time believing that a paper that has the legacy it has, is paying her for this crap. (more…)
What do we do? I have a hard time imaging a scenario where it would be OK to unilaterally go into another country and usurp governmental power. There are so many historical examples of it being a really bad idea.
There are 2 million people whose lives are in peril. They have lost their homes and there is no potable water or food. The rest of the world has offered to help. Relief efforts have been made difficult by the junta’s need to control everything. Some supplies and food have gotten into the country, but the military is distributing these donated goods and hampering the efforts of on-the-ground relief workers. A coordinated crisis management team is waiting for a very limited number of visas. People need water and food and will need food going forward as farming yields could mean famine. Officially, the junta is saying there are 43,000 people dead. The UN and Red Cross say over 100,000. This is a type of genocide that is unconscionable. These are people that have the unfortunate reality of living in a fascist state that has been successfully isolated from the rest of the world. These are innocents that have no political value to the junta dead, but because they are evil, (its the only explanation I can come up with) they are willing to let them die.
What is the right thing to do? What is a justifiable use of military force?
Below is a video that Moveon.org I know was distributing. I have read in other places that the Monks and the Red Cross are probably your best bets for making donations. On the off chance you know of Thailand-based NGO, that is suppose to be an effective way to get relief into Burma as well. I am sure the monk is praying for a peaceful solution regarding the military’s soulless response to this disaster.
I guess I just fell off a turnip truck or something..Its is just hard for me to believe that there are still people that believe this way. It made me cry.
Up today is West Virginia. Hillary Clinton is supposed to win buy tons… Its not exactly his demographic. White, working class with limited education. So I guess that makes him an elitist..or Appalachian America is a bit racist??? Its a good thing no one reads this blog because I am sure it this decisive remark is not politically correct…but true. AND it does bother me that there are people that wont vote for him because he is African America. This Washington Post article was especially depressing to read.
I am so ready for this to be over.. I am so sick all the parsing and projecting and predicting. All that matters is how many people vote for who on November 4, 2008. I need a time travel machine, pronto.
But actually not here in Argentina. We get to celebrate it in October again. But as my husband likes to say, “Everyday is Mothers Day in Argentina….” How the fuck would he know? He is in Patagonia flying around on someones private jet and fishing at someones private fishing lodge as we speak.
This morning I was greeted by my five year old daughter Georgie and a plastic plate with a cup of juice (actually served in a baby bottle without the top) and a yogurt, in its original plastic container, without a spoon. Reminiscent of breakfast room service at the Four Seasons. Nothing says I love you like breakfast served in bed and I did get some cute heartfelt cards from the three youngest.
The oldest who is 12, presented me with nothing, zero, zilch. Just a handful of attitude which he doles out everyday of the year, not just holidays. I didn’t take it personally as he is suppose to hate me at this point in his life. It just makes me a little sad. Those days of cuddling and sweet talk are over. And what an ingrate..he was by far the most difficult birth, 5 hours of back labor and no drugs. Served him right that he came out with a cone head. This morning when I explained that he owed me at least a kiss or hug for all the pain and hard work on his behalf he balked and seemed disgusted by me and the suggestion. It just gets easier and easier to humiliate and shame him…Never knew being a mom could be so much sinister fun. Cant wait until he brings home a girlfriend!
I am ashamed to say that my lack of writing has little to do with my very complicated life of multiple children, a retail concern to be managed and grown, and big logistical issues to resolve concerning our living situation here in Argentina. My lack of blog entries has everything to do with my compulsive, obsessive, maniacal, entirely unhealthy myopic focus on the democratic primary elections in the US. Because we have only regular cable television that affords me only CNN international Asia edition (don’t have any idea why), all my information, news and opinion comes from the Internet and the 12 or so blogs/news portals I get 85% of my information from. While I am reading blogs, I am simultaneously streaming progressive talk shows and on occasion, a Yankees game. If I am just listening to the radio, I play spider solitaire. (more…)
I am feeling a lot less in exile these days. But my blog is still a mess of political and personal thoughts along with experiences of living in Argentina. While I can't promise, I will try to balance talk about my kids with something more universally relevant. And sorry if salty talk is offensive but I was a derivatives trader in another life and it cant be helped.
