Quote of the Day
My sister quoted Steinbeck ('cause she's so brilliant that way) in response to my Random Memory post:
"There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if if didn't necessarily happen." - from Sweet Thursday
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
Why Would You Want This Job?
My man John Edwards has entered the fray again in a totally cool announcement in New Orleans, although many dems have already started their typical hand-wringing the likes of which will milquetoast us right into another John Kerry for president nightmare. I'll say it one time and (yeah right) never again: the most important thing is to win in 2008. Maybe that sounds a little bad - you know lacking real content. Because isn't the most important thing to have the "right" person in the job? I don't know...is there anyone that could honestly say that a Gore presidency would have looked exactly like the Bush presidency?
Anyway, the more pressing issue(s) facing our nation is(are) summarized in Richard Clarke's article in the Washington Post. I know, I know, Dick Clarke is a little bit loony and a little bit self important (a little?), but I kinda like him. He reminds me of a good Tom Clancy novel. You know, post-modernist cold war paranoia with a splash of James Bond. This piece in the Times makes you wonder why anyone would want this job, or any job in government. I guess the reason why they would want it is that they know they can avoid the real work that has to be done, but I think we as citizens have a responsibility to hold our leaders accountable for working through their scary to-do list:
1) Global Warming - see Al Gore's docu-drama An Inconvenient Truth.
2) Russian Revanchism - cool word, that. I think it means that the Russians are acting like the Soviets in a Tom Clancy novel (see, I told you so).
3) Latin America's Leftist Lurch - Cuba's not going democratic 'cause Castro's dying and the real problem lives (democratically-elected) in Venezuela.
4) Africa at War - Even George Clooney knows that.
5) Arms Control Freeze - I actually have nothing snide to say about this.
6) Transnational Crime - see #2 above, except insert "drug-cartels" where it says "Russians" and "Soviets".
7) Pakistani-Afgan Border - this is the one that really scares me and is the most critical work not being done because we're mired in Iraq.
My man John Edwards has entered the fray again in a totally cool announcement in New Orleans, although many dems have already started their typical hand-wringing the likes of which will milquetoast us right into another John Kerry for president nightmare. I'll say it one time and (yeah right) never again: the most important thing is to win in 2008. Maybe that sounds a little bad - you know lacking real content. Because isn't the most important thing to have the "right" person in the job? I don't know...is there anyone that could honestly say that a Gore presidency would have looked exactly like the Bush presidency?
Anyway, the more pressing issue(s) facing our nation is(are) summarized in Richard Clarke's article in the Washington Post. I know, I know, Dick Clarke is a little bit loony and a little bit self important (a little?), but I kinda like him. He reminds me of a good Tom Clancy novel. You know, post-modernist cold war paranoia with a splash of James Bond. This piece in the Times makes you wonder why anyone would want this job, or any job in government. I guess the reason why they would want it is that they know they can avoid the real work that has to be done, but I think we as citizens have a responsibility to hold our leaders accountable for working through their scary to-do list:
1) Global Warming - see Al Gore's docu-drama An Inconvenient Truth.
2) Russian Revanchism - cool word, that. I think it means that the Russians are acting like the Soviets in a Tom Clancy novel (see, I told you so).
3) Latin America's Leftist Lurch - Cuba's not going democratic 'cause Castro's dying and the real problem lives (democratically-elected) in Venezuela.
4) Africa at War - Even George Clooney knows that.
5) Arms Control Freeze - I actually have nothing snide to say about this.
6) Transnational Crime - see #2 above, except insert "drug-cartels" where it says "Russians" and "Soviets".
7) Pakistani-Afgan Border - this is the one that really scares me and is the most critical work not being done because we're mired in Iraq.
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