i had stopped visiting sullivans site some time back, i found the daily two feet of sewage on the clintons just uncomfortable to view, and smell.

since hillary endorsed obama, since they had their unity rally yesterday, i thought, why not check it out

I'm not upset with Randi Rhodes calling Hillary a fucking whore. Nor did I throw a brick at my TV while watching Pat Leahy make an ass of himself telling Hillary to drop out.

As for the Obama supporters defending a candidate that gives "flim-flam" a whole new level of meaning, I quit wondering about their reasoning abilities or what planet they're from a long time ago.

Y'see, fair and nice went out the window a long time ago.

Say, around December 12, 2000, when five of the justices of the Supreme Court said to stop counting the votes. And I didn't see a single Democrat lead the charge for revolt against this gross abuse to our system of governance. Not a Senator or a Congressman. Not even a call to arms from Left-wing activists.

You know I am a Democrat because of two families who I respect greatly.  One of those families has seen great tragedy over and over and survived to continue fighting for what is right.  The other family has overcome great odds and fought to ensure they can continue to support and help working class americans.  

The first family as i'm sure you can guess is the Kennedy family.  If i had to name one person who affected and influenced my life more than anyone else on earth it would have to be President Kennedy.  I was born years after he was assasinated that day in Dallas.  I never got to see him speak on television or see him at a campaign rally, but i have read his speeches, his books and feel i have a good understanding of what he believed.  

The second family is the Clinton family.  President Clinton himself has a special place in his heart for President Kennedy, as do I.  As President Bill Clinton did everything he could to help people in the middle class, as well as trying to improve the lives of people in poverty all over the world.  If i had to pick a second most influential person on my life it would be a tie.  Hillary and Bill Clinton.  I have been to rallies and seen the President on television in this instance, and i know that the Clintons care about the American people.

There is a man today who i used to respect as a politician and a rising star in US politics, who I can no longer respect.  That man is Barack Obama.  This is a man who would have the audacity to run around the country with no plan for how he will fix the problems we have, but campaigns instead on the nebulous idea of change.  This man further has the audacity to compare himself to great American leaders such as my beloved President Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.  

My college-age son and I talk pretty frequently, especially now that he's living across the country in NH. After the recent primaries in which Hillary had won TX, OH and RI, he expressed amazement on how I had called it, just as he had expressed similar astonishment after seeing Hillary win in NH. "Son," I said, "age and treachery will always overcome youth and strength."

"But, dad, he's got more delegates."

"Big deal. He can't get the magic number 2025, and no way will the Party elders take that leap off a cliff with him."

"But what about the will of the people? All the young voters?"

I then explained to him that like me, the Party Elders don't trust them, or anyone else who labels themselves as Progressives, to be there in the trenches when needed. As a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, I've been burned way too many times counting on my fellow Lefty to fight until the bitter end. Not to mention being amazed at the total reversal of earlier expressed opinions held throughout the Progressive-blogosphere for the longest time.

The 60's. Those were the days. Classic Trek. Kubrick's 2001. Armstrong actually walking on lunar soil, thanks to a liberal political figure committing his nation to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning safely by the end of the decade.

Naturally, blood had to be spilled along the way. Change never comes easy. Or without cost.

As a kid growing up in white suburbia, I was drawn to anything sci-fi related, especially if it had anything to do with the future or space travel. It wasn't long before I was also drawn to like-minded people, who believed in multi-cultural societies that all got along working for the benefit of each other.

I didn't know it back then, but already I was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal to the core. We didn't have the internet to communicate with kindred souls, nor were the terms "liberal" and "conservative" tossed around to define which side one stood on. The divisions in those days were much starker, as in "black " and "white" as well as "young" and "old".

Both wrote two books:

JFK = Why England Slept and  Profiles of Courage
      Subject Matter:  Patriotism and Courage

BO  = Dreams of My Father and The Audacity of Hope
      Subject Matter:  Shameless Self Promotion

Both had dealings with the MOB

JFK = Senate Hearings taking on the Mob (with brother Bobby)

BO  = Real Estate deal taking money from the Mob (Rezko)

Both delivered great speeches

JFK = Wrote his own speeches quoting from memory according to his  
      secretary and and had help of Sorenson

BO  = Teleprompted other speeches with help of Duvall/Axelrod
      (The Duvall incident is tip of plagerism iceberg)

"I find the manner in which they've been running their campaign sort of depressing, lately. It was interesting in the debate, Sen. Clinton saying 'Don't feed the American people false hopes. Get a reality check, you know?' I mean, you can picture JFK saying, 'We can't go to the moon, it's a false hope. Let's get a reality check.' It's not, sort of, I think, what our tradition has been."

-- Sen. Barack Obama, in a forthcoming interview on Good Morning America, about Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The below response of mine is a response which i have cross posted here in response to anothers blog yesterday at the dailykos