Sunday, June 15th, 2003
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas”
George Santayana
Archive for 2003
Friday, June 13th, 2003
LATE NIGHT REBUTTAL TIME
Prometheus 6 responded to my reluctant ( I hate jumping on bandwagons) Hillary! posting:
“The idea of a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy is much like the idea of a unicorn. Such a creature could exists… it just doesn’t. A Clinton candidacy would do more to energize the Republican base than the return of the Gipper himself. And a Clinton win would likely signal the start of the four year period that culminates in the Second War of Secession.
Not that I’d mind if she won. It would bring the day we see a Black president that much closer. But if you want to gain power you don’t set up your own obstacles. Sen. Clinton would be just as useful and convincing as Majority Leader and far less of an obstacle to regaining and leeping the presidency.
She’s due for a major increase in influence, and yeah, the book is probably part of setting the stage for that. But not as POTUS
I would have to admit Hillary drives some folks on my side bannanas in a psychologically visceral way that ” W ” does to some kinds of liberals. The idea of Hillary as Senate minority leader is an intriguing one though I’m not certain if she’s a clubby enough personality for that difficult a role – getting senators to go along with something is a lot like herding cats. On the other hand HRC could represent her party with total message discipline and raise a lot of cash so if Daschle departs she could easily vie to replace him. Walking away from a presidential run where she could win at least the nomination would torment her to the end of her days – people who live and breathe politics like LBJ or Hillary or Nixon suffer terribly when they end up ” out of the loop ” so I’m betting she goes for the brass ring.
Thursday, June 12th, 2003
SPOTLIGHT ON A BLOG – MILT’S FILE
University of Chicago’s Dr. Milt Rosenberg of Extension720 radio fame is probably the most erudite talk radio host in the nation whose program airs on AM 720 at 9-11 pm CST ( barring a Cubs game broadcast) and is simulcast on the internet.
Thursday, June 12th, 2003
” ARE YOU ON DRUGS ? ” DEPARTMENT
Tom Spencer, noted HNN blogger made the following statement on his daily blog George Bush, Evil Incarnate – sorry, I mean Thinking it Through, on Iraq:
“In the case of Iraq, we took a relatively stable Middle Eastern state and have, through our own efforts, destabilized it and made life worse for the average Iraqi. Heck, at least the Iraqi people had electricity, sewer systems, and clean water under Saddam’s rule.
Really. What’s a few fingernails being popped out by the Mukhabarat, a couple of Toddler Prisons and the occasional act of genocide compared to cheap kilowatt hours ? This was not one of Dr. Spencer’s more intelligent swipes at the Bush administration. I wonder if he could scrape up some live non-Baathist Iraqis who would agree to take Saddam back under any conditions. Stability in a ruthless, tyrannical regime is highly overrated. Better they be made to wobble a bit before they can contemplate killing their next 100,000 victims.
