JanS
this really has gotten personal, and, frankly, is driving people away from these political forums. My take on “associations” in past lives….I was known to personally associate with a man from WA state before he murdered two women in Tumwater and ended up one of the most famous death row inmates this state has had. So.. does that make me anything like him? Did I embrace everything that he stood for? Of course not….it’s stupid to think that. Now, Hillary has some shady people in her past lives…and BaraCk Obama has some shady people in his past lives. George Bush was an alcoholic and a druggie in a past life (and look where he ended up). What the hell does any of that have to do with the price of oil, the local prices of gas in this state, driving up trucking fees, driving up the cost of flour and sugar, and bread, and milk , and eggs, and so forth ad nauseum. What the hell does it have to do with a plan to get our economy back on track, a decent health plan that people can afford, the latest 10 soldiers blown to bits in Iraq…or Afghanistan…not a damned thing. It’s time to get past the petty arguments that have nothing to do with the “price of tea in China”…none of the candidates are squeaky clean…get over it , already. Some of us want to hear more than this type of assassination (gee, look, there are two asses in that word). Obviously, Hillary Clinton is a strong candidate, or she wouldn’t be where she is now. Obviously, Barack Obama is a strong candidate, or he wouldn’t be where he is now. What some of us want is more substance (and thanks to ABC, it’ll probably never happen now, since this campaign is for the media, and not for the American public)
One of them will be the Dem candidate…do we really want John McCain to just sit back and coast into the White House? This primary season has been way too long for me already. I am tired of people telling me that my feelings about whatever candidate are formed because I read this , or I listen to that. We have brains…we read, we cull out the good and the bad, and then we make up our minds for ourselves. Ms. Huffington doesn’t make up my mind, nor does Move on.org., nor does the New Republic, or whatever is talking to me on whatever day. I make my decision and hopefully it will be the right one. One can only hope…