democracy

Somehow Obama and Clinton got into a fight over race and sex. Go figure. Or maybe it was just about race. Knowing Clinton's politics (Yale Law School fellow alum and all), there simply is no way this should have happened. Which of course means that they (Obama and Clinton) must now hate each other, since nothing else explains it. Which in turn is a measure...
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My time in the White House taught me that the electorate can be at least seemingly fickle. The short-run becomes the long-run in most people's minds quite readily, including my own. Falstaff and all (eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die). McCain's resurgence in national polls seems easy enough to explain - sobering up to the fact that no other Republican is...
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lady_a:

I mean no offense, but why is everyone so concerned with traditional political records? Presidents with decades of past experience have fucked things up just as much as the next guy. Obama doesn't have a long record to draw from, but who's to say that's a bad thing? It also means he hasn't had enough time to get stuck in the pit of corruption that is politics in general.

Jan 15, 2008

rys:

But I bet you can't say you've pegged yourself...

Jan 15, 2008

alas, what boots it with uncessant care....

(anyone know what poem that line cames from - without using a search engine!)

I'm quite down. Personal loss. Trying to distract myself with enough work that I don't really think. I should probably look to get into a relationship or the like. Mental activity I do not think is the long term solution.

Sigh. Life sometimes has...
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