Parsing the candidates' resumes

McCain, get your yoga on!

McCain: seriously out of touch

Gotta love these guerrilla videomakers, protesting while there's still time.

Swing music for voters

This makes me think of all the words that could rhyme with "McCain." Like:
pain
insane
blame
shame
inane
feign
down the drain
more of the same...

I'm sure you can think of more. In the meantime, enjoy:

McCain caught the Katie, instead of the Shuttle to DC

Watch how easily McCain lies. Caught on tape with hilarious commentary by Dave Letterman.

American Cathartic

"The greatest thing about Obama isn't really about Obama at all, per se."

As a man of words myself, I admire Mark Morford, my favorite columnist for the SF Chronicle. He regularly pours out such a torrent of verbal pyrotechnics that it's sometimes overwhelming. But today's column has a soberness, a restraint, that strikes deeper than many of the shards of wit he normally launches. I think he has found the most hopeful sign for our long dreary, sad, painful time. His news:

It's actually about, well, us.

This is the great revelation: We still got it. The collective unconscious, the deep sense of inner wisdom, that intuitive knowing that borders on a kind of mystical proficiency, where millions of people can actually look beyond rhetoric and media spin and merely feel the presence of something great in the room? Yep, still there. Who knew?

See, this is what I hear most from relatives and readers and friends and newborn activists who were never activists before: Obama speaks to the intuition.

Archive of Morford's articles.

Friend Chris Raymond responded with this intelligent insight:

Yeah, I totally totally agree with this....on every point. Obama gives me
hope, not because I really think he can change everything that has become so
corrupted, but because there are so many of us who are responding to his
leadership. For all the right reasons. That is why I am hopeful.

Yes, it's not about him so much as about US, what people can do to change things. It'll take a long time and probably involve sacrifices. What we need is leadership, the intelligence and temperament to bring together disparate resources and go forward out of the quagmire we have sunk into these past 8 years.

It's the oil, stupid

**Interesting thread on HuffingtonPost.com immediately after Bush's "surge" speech last night. In it is an intriguing, though convoluted argument that I feel needs to be set apart for scrutiny later if the events and logic cited actually come to pass.

It is McCain/Lieberman on a ticket for2008! McCain has already filed as a candidate for the Presidency in 2008 (Federal Election Commission). Bush has announced Lieberman to "head" the meetings on the progress with him in the White House on Iraq. McCain made the deal with the bankers of the U.S. several months ago in Europe when he accompanied Rumsfeld on a "briefing meeting on Iraq'". Eversince then, he has been in the loop with the White House (getting groomed).There are two outcomes for when withdrawal from Iraq occurs. Immediate withdrawal means that World Oil and Gas prices tumble and the Middle-East region National Leaders who have production commitments risk their overthrow from their partners within, and then the Bankers will renegotiate their "payoffs" with new oil price models for trading dollars, or second, National leadership over sectarian and extremists factions(which has been going on all the time in fluxuations amonst the various national leaders/players, keep their agreements for oil revenues at a "New Reduced Percentage" from the Banks in concert with the U.S. maintaining surface political stature, oil and gas supply lines, and continued arms/drug trades among the partners, and continued heavy U.S. Military support. McCain is being shown the ropes and Business As Usual. The political spectrum of Democrats will not be and are not of consequence. The Bush Administration (Conglomeration) had figured on losing in 2004, and was hoping to "sabatoge" another Democrat and work underneath the public scrutiny, as they did with Iran Hostages to Carter,and Iran-Contra under Reagan's Alzheimers, but the Poll Experiment worked well enough that they had to scramble for excuses to a false war in Iraq, to get the oil rights percentages up to 75% net. McCain is a willing partner, just remember the elimination of S & L's! He was brought in to that venture enabling the wholesale takeover of over 70% of single family mortgages being purchased by the banks for about 25 cents on the dollar! Vote NO ENCUMBANTS BACK IN OUR GOVERNMENT FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT THREE TERMS!!! Please.

By: spookcatcher on January 10, 2007 at 11:16pm