Thought of the moment…
Oh here we go again; another day of navigating Hillary Clinton’s spin and bullshit. Now Hillary says she “made a mistake” when she claimed (repeatedly) that she was dodging sniper fire on the tarmac in Bosnia back in the 90’s here.
Honey, in my world that kind of mistake is called a bald-faced lie.
And Obama Girl is back with another video encouraging Hillary to get out of the race and stop the hate. Think she will? Doubtful. Especially now that long time Clinton Consigleri James Carville is out there comparing Bill Clinton to Jesus being nailed on the cross here. Can these people possibly sink any lower? What’s amazing is watching the Clintonistas ripping pages out of Karl Rove’s playbook by taking their own weaknesses and projecting them onto Barack Obama.
Way to go, Hillary.
I’m so jealous of Obama girl… sigh…
Why didn’t I get this call? At least baseball season has started.
1Richard
wrote on 26 March 2008 at 9:15
Morning Nina: Did you get to see Manny after yesterdays game? He is such a nice guy. I just got my new Red Sox hat in the mail and, I wear it proudly. Today is a great day for the sap to run, started boiling right after the game started this morning. Baseball is a sure sign that spring is upon us,thank god…… Have a great “Lazygeisha” kinda day. Don’t you wish you were in the stands in Japan? richard
2Sean
wrote on 26 March 2008 at 14:31
As a Republican I love watching Clinton and Obama attack each other!!! This way we wont have to worry about Obama taxing the bejesus out of us.
3nina aoki
wrote on 26 March 2008 at 15:45
Hello Richard,
Yes! I did see Manny! Didn’t you see the video clip of Manny speaking which I posted here?
I’m really happy that baseball is back. It’s been a long winter. Tho, the Sox lost today… so they split the series in Japan. Oh well. Now, it’s back to Los Angeles for three exhibition games, then on to Oakland for some real games, then on to Toronto for more real games, and then finally back to Fenway! yay!
All this traveling really sucks for the club, but it was sooo cool that they went to Japan, and yes, I would have LOVED to have been able to go.
Oh well. I’m glad you’re having fun with your sap!
Thanks hon!
xoxo,
nina
4nina aoki
wrote on 26 March 2008 at 16:01
Sean,
lmao! Well, I doubt that Obama would ‘tax the bejesus’ out of you… but I think if John McCain becomes president you’re going to have a lot more to worry about than just the tax code!
You should read Barack Obama’s economic proposals here. He’s no “tax and spend” liberal, and after the way Bush has mismanaged the economy and how he’s ballooned the size of the nanny-state government to out of control levels, no Republican will ever be able to call a Democrat ‘tax and spend’ ever again — especially how Bush has cut taxes and spent anyway, and how the economy is taking a big nosedive because of it.
Speak Mandarin do you?
I’m personally worried about a guy (McCain) who wants to re-fight the Vietnam war and who doesn’t know who we’re fighting now in Iraq!
But, sadly, and this is a sober assessment — I think Hillary Clinton is going to single-handedly ruin the Democrats chances to win the White House this year, and we’ll be stuck with John McCain as president.
Her raging ‘no Democrat can be president but me’ ego-trip is completely out of control, and I fear that between her, Bill, and her surrogates, they’re just going to tear down Barack Obama to a level where he’ll have a hard time recovering. Plus, the media is doing a great job of doing all the Clinton’s heavy lifting for them by beating the non-story Reverend Wright story to death.
Good for the GOP… bad for the country and the world.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me.
xoxo,
nina
5Sean
wrote on 26 March 2008 at 16:16
The media is not doing the party any favors. The race is being characterized as being even and both candidates having a chance. Not surprising because a fight to the death benefits the media. Most people do not realize that Clinton has no chance to win. If they did there would be quite a bit of pressure on her to step down. Half the people are unable to understand the parties process for picking a candidate. It would be a sad day in politics if the person representing the party did not win the popular vote and received the nod because of Super delegates. What the f is a Super Delegate?
6nina aoki
wrote on 26 March 2008 at 16:43
Hi Sean,
Oh I would completely agree with that.
What’s interesting is that I was just having a conversation with a friend last night, a Conservative Republican, (yes, I have many Republican friends!), and the topic of how the media has covered this primary race came up. I admitted to my friend, to my own surprise actually, that I felt that the media was showing extreme pro-Clinton bias in how this race has been covered.
As you’ve pointed out; this race is being characterized by the media as ‘close’ or ‘neck and neck’ or even possible for Hillary Clinton to win, which by all realistic assessments, as I wrote in my post here, is a mathematical impossibility.
I’m not sure if I want to assign political motives to the media just yet, but here’s the reality: If Hillary Clinton were any other candidate… if her name was Hillary Jones and if she wasn’t married to a former US President… her and her campaign would have been written off weeks ago. She has no chance of winning, and for the media to continue to pretend and tell the American people that she has a chance is simply intellectually dishonest.
As I also wrote in the comments section of my post here — all Hillary Clinton is doing by staying in the race is virtually guaranteeing that she (as well as Bill) will become pariahs of the Democratic Party and that they’ll have essentially handed John McCain and the Republicans the White House.
The Super-Delegate system came after the 1972 DNC convention where McGovern was in a similar position as Obama is now. The basic idea was for party insiders (political hacks, let’s be honest) to be able to save the party from itself.
The Democrats do not have the same problem in 2008. Obama is a great candidate and I would love nothing better than for Obama and McCain to have a campaign based on the issues because I think the Democrats win on the issues. Sadly, Hillary’s sense of entitlement to the throne doesn’t quite see things that way, and it would be a disaster and split the party if the super-delegates took the nomination away from Obama and gave it to her.
What also bothers me is that I was initially a Clinton supporter, but this campaign has totally soured me on all of the Clintonistas, and I’ve lost enormous respect for her as I wrote about here.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me.
xoxo,
nina
7hapes
wrote on 27 March 2008 at 0:00
I was mentioning to friends of mine that the local newspapers are all ‘Hilary has Pennsylvania LOCKED, BIZZNATCHES! TAKE THAT, you black-guy-lovin’ ass monkeys!’ Meanwhile, Obama’s rally here in Pittsburgh was sold out in 30 minutes, and my friend who went to try and volunteer for the event was turned away because they had all they needed.
8Adam
wrote on 27 March 2008 at 1:51
You just have to laugh when a politician is caught in an epistimological deviance. considering her attempt to quibble out of her mess has been quite amusing. Say you know I saw that video too, and whatever ‘through the looking glass’ version Hillary ascribed to the event has been great comedic fodder around the studio.
Just this morning I was juicing up my own Hillarization concerning the dangers of eating Blowfish in Kyoto.
But seriously, isn’t it this kind of wanton deception that is responsible for most of the bad decisions that has plagued this country over the last several years?
At least Obama’s approach isn’t based on politics of exclusion that has come to characterize much of the conservative and (at times) liberal thought.
I spend only four months a year in the states and I can see what most other countries are noticing. Rome fell in 476 AD while no one noticed. Sure the decline happened over several decades but even I notice paralles with aspects of Pax Americana.
Heavens me, didn’t we reach peak oil ten years ago? And how on Earth can America make good on its massive debts (to China) when the middle east no longer sells its oil and Africa its minerals with US currency? Europe never forgot how we charged whatever we wanted for American $ when oil could only be purchased with our currency.
Gee it doesn’t feel good now that the other boot has dropped.
And to add to the sorrows of Empire isn’t how we’re spending money to keep afloat a massive military industrial complex what finally sank the former Soviet Union?
So keep well lovely angel, hopefully people will be smarter come election time.
(Oh, by the way Michy’s mother did not tell me anything about her daughter’s sexual preferences. There was one of those “Threes Company” type misunderstandings where she heard a Tv programme I was watching with with her mother, and Michy’s mother was on her sixth round of sake. Michy heard a combination of the TV and her mother’s backseat director’s commentary.
Adam Narcross
9nina aoki
wrote on 27 March 2008 at 23:44
hapes,
lmao! Oh really? Well, Hillary very well may win Pennsylvania but it really doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in the long run. She has to win all the remaining primaries and caucuses by 70% to just tie where Obama is right now, and then make a play for the super-delegates to switch. Point is, it ain’t gonna happen!
But what I thought was really the height of hypocrisy was Hillary sitting down with that crazy right wing newspaper owned by Richard Mellon Scaife. You remember the one that tried to prove that the Clintons had Vince Foster murdered? Talk about sleeping with the enemy!
It’s funny, I’ve talked to a lot of friends about this primary race and almost all of them (except my republican friends) say the same thing; that they’ve completely lost respect for the Clintons and they now see them, and the Bill Clinton years in a much different light. The romanticism of the Clinton years has been forever shattered by this ugly campaign.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me!
xoxo,
nina
10nina aoki
wrote on 27 March 2008 at 23:54
Hi Adam!
Ahh, the old ‘Three’s Company Excuse’ huh? lmao! (just teasing sweetie) — Tho I’m sure Michy remembers it differently! haha!
Well, your assessments about the decline of the American Empire are spot on, especially with respect to currency markets and the sale of oil, and how the EU, China and India now have far more leverage in global markets than the United States. It used to be said that when the US economy sneezed, the rest of the world caught cold. That doesn’t happen anymore.
We’ve become a bloated empire, with a corrupt administration which promotes enemies either real or imagined in order to continue to fund a dysfunctional and unnecessary military-industrial complex. The reason for war is more war, and money. The level of cronyism at the highest levels of this government and a general apathy on behalf of the citizens has enabled these crooks and liars to basically rape the US treasury and have virtually guaranteed the bankruptcy of America.
We will have no way to pay off the trillions of dollars in debt we now owe to the Chinese when the bill comes due. And for what? So Bush could give tax cuts to the wealthy and fund his wars of conquest in the middle east? Bush’s policies and this period in time will be remembered by historians as the tipping point for the United States.
Tho, I have faith… as odd as that might sound, that at least we might have one last chance to get things right if we have the courage to elect a man like Barack Obama. But I’ll admit, it’s a longshot — tho the eternal optimist in me wants to believe, you know?
If we keep repeating the mistakes of the past, our future is certainly written.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me!
xoxo,
nina
ps - give my love to Michy!