We need to banish the "R" word

I'm talking about the word "Racist."

That's all we hear these days as an excuse for everything.

Barack Obama doesn't get the Presidential nomination? It's not because a lot of people have fears about his pastor that he listened to for 20 years, the knowledge that in his year in the Senate the only bills he got passed were ones that other people had done all the work on, that he's friends with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, that he thinks there are 57 states in the Union, etc. etc. No - if he loses, it's because America is racist.

(ON a side note. According to Rush Limbaugh, if Hilary Clinton doesn't win, it proves feminism is dead. He makes the same kind of sweeping statement. Not at all, Rush. It means that women are too smart to vote for a woman who climbed to her position on the backs of her husband and Whitewater, et al.)

Just saw the news - didn't bother to turn the sound on - about people in Texas, I believe - protesting with signs saying "Stop racist vigilantes." This isn't about racists going around stringing up blacks, like used to happen back in the 60s, this is about people on the border with Mexico trying to stop ILLEGAL aliens from entering this country.

But as soon as someone screams "racist" - that's it. Fight over. You can no longer fight on the issues - that illegals are, ya know, illegal, and don't deserve the rights of citizens, not the least of which is getting paid welfare, getting a drivers license, etc. - you've got to defend yourself against the charge of racism.

There again you've got Barack Obama, talking about his grandmother as a "typical white person." If that's not a racist statement I've never heard one. But because it was said by a black man... apparently it's not racist?

Jack Nicholson's brief commercial for Hilary Clinton

Until the very end, where Jack Nicholson himself comes on screen and says he approves this message, I thought this was some spoof commercial. It features clips of him in various movies talking about what is needed in a President.

But, it's all fluff, and I don't really see where it can help Hilary, and frankly with his psychotic Joker as the lead-in, I would think it would only hurt.

It is unfortunate on one hand. Hilary Clinton is not losing this election because "feminism is dead" as Rush Limbaugh has taken to saying, but because she's just not a likeable woman and is hardly a feminist, considering that she rode to power on the coat-tails of her cheating husband. She's got a lousy speaking voice - but so does McCain. And at least she's more articulate than George Bush... I won't vote for her, simply because I don't like the socialism that she - and Barack Obama, want to enlarge in this country. And unfortunately - McCain will take us down the same path. This is a lose-lose election this year...

The Politics of Parsing

Two You Tube videos showing the way Hilary Clinton flipflops on the issues...and yet she won Florida (a state where the Democrats had agreed not to campaign because their primary doesn't count... except now Clinton is lobbying for it to count....

Not sure if its John Edwards who is posting this stuff, or a supporter...

Part 1



Part 2



Wolf Blitzer asks John Edwards about this

Rush Limbaugh update 1/29/08

I'll be sharing a lot of video from You Tube on this blog, since You Tube has rapidly become the place where people go to share video of events that impact them, and where others go to see "what's up."

I'm not affilitated with any of these You Tubers in any way...

So, to start with, here's a video entitled: Rush Limbaugh Morning Update 01.29.2008
and is from Limbaugh's webcam.

As usual, Limbaugh is pounding on Clinton (just like Sean Hannity does with his "Stop Hilary Express.") Now - don't get me wrong - I have no intention of voting for Hilary Clinton either. I'm a Republican. But that doesn't change the fact that I really dislike Limbaugh. You'll notice he takes some shots at Hilary's gender, which annoys me.

Anyway, it's all about the "Uncivil War" - a new term Limbaugh has coined for what's going on in the Democratic party vs Clinton and Obama, and of course he'll pound that catch phrase from here to eternity. (And ignore the Uncivil War going on between the Republicans with McCain and Romney. Well, that's because he's on Romney's side. As well he should be, as McCain, while serving as a Republican, is most definitely a Democrat in all his views.)