Snark and Smarm
Out of a sense of curiousity, much as one gawks at a car wreck, I happened across the Dem debate this morning. Despite my predisposition to be uninterested in what these various and sundry pretenders had to say, I must say, I was riveted.
First off, Hillary is incredible. I think she is literally the only adult in the party. As a financial professional, I can say that I'm confident Wall St. can do business with this person. I don't know what she's having for breakfast these days, but whatever it is, I want some. She's confident, poised, and is able to graciously deflect the kooky attacks of her lame opponents. She is the only candidate who seems to understand that she might actually have to govern someday. Good for her.
Second, isn't it enough already with the candidacy of John Edwards? Won't someone do him the favor of walking him off the national stage before he so damages his own credibility as to render himself a national laughingstock? (If indeed it is even possible to be a laughingstock in today's political landscape). Go back to chasing ambulances, John. Or, better yet, look after your wife and kids. It takes a particular type of vanity to suppose that because one is skillful at bilking gigantic settlements out of doctors, that that somehow qualifies one to be the leader of the free world.
I should say that I don't begrudge him his riches. He played the game and won. I'd love to do the same. I just can't stomach the "Two America's" rhetoric. And the anti-business agenda. Here is a man who advocates sitting and talking with terrorists, but when it comes to American businesses like drug and insurance companies, who produce products and services that save millions of lives, that employ millions, provide a return for investors, and pay billions in taxes, we can't even negotiate with them, they must be "broken".
Ahmadinejad is ok, Johnson & Johnson must be destroyed.
As for the rest of them--well, there's Obama. As I expected, his popularity crested the day before he announced. I doubt Hillary will even offer him the VP. Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich, sadly, speak for a sizeable segment of their party. The terminally unhinged. Biden and Dodd, I suspect, are using their runs as an excuse to do some serious road partying. I can't imagine what else they think they're accomplishing. Ditto Bill Richardson.
Out of a sense of curiousity, much as one gawks at a car wreck, I happened across the Dem debate this morning. Despite my predisposition to be uninterested in what these various and sundry pretenders had to say, I must say, I was riveted.
First off, Hillary is incredible. I think she is literally the only adult in the party. As a financial professional, I can say that I'm confident Wall St. can do business with this person. I don't know what she's having for breakfast these days, but whatever it is, I want some. She's confident, poised, and is able to graciously deflect the kooky attacks of her lame opponents. She is the only candidate who seems to understand that she might actually have to govern someday. Good for her.
Second, isn't it enough already with the candidacy of John Edwards? Won't someone do him the favor of walking him off the national stage before he so damages his own credibility as to render himself a national laughingstock? (If indeed it is even possible to be a laughingstock in today's political landscape). Go back to chasing ambulances, John. Or, better yet, look after your wife and kids. It takes a particular type of vanity to suppose that because one is skillful at bilking gigantic settlements out of doctors, that that somehow qualifies one to be the leader of the free world.
I should say that I don't begrudge him his riches. He played the game and won. I'd love to do the same. I just can't stomach the "Two America's" rhetoric. And the anti-business agenda. Here is a man who advocates sitting and talking with terrorists, but when it comes to American businesses like drug and insurance companies, who produce products and services that save millions of lives, that employ millions, provide a return for investors, and pay billions in taxes, we can't even negotiate with them, they must be "broken".
Ahmadinejad is ok, Johnson & Johnson must be destroyed.
As for the rest of them--well, there's Obama. As I expected, his popularity crested the day before he announced. I doubt Hillary will even offer him the VP. Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich, sadly, speak for a sizeable segment of their party. The terminally unhinged. Biden and Dodd, I suspect, are using their runs as an excuse to do some serious road partying. I can't imagine what else they think they're accomplishing. Ditto Bill Richardson.
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