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There is a lot of talk in the netroots about the "kitchen sink" but she has not been able to say even half of what she could if left unfettered.
What fetters exactly has kept her from saying everything she could think of???
What exactly do you think a "kitchen sink" strategy is but saying everything she could possibly think of... justifying it as "things the republicans will say anyway"?
The only difference between HRC saying it and the republicans saying it is who's able to vote based on what's said.
Of course, the irony is that HRC is in a weaker position than BHO on this particular topic. Working on a non-profit that tries to help develop a neighborhood like the South Side of Chicago, and tries to help residents improve the neighborhood... if that's the most radical thing BHO is involved in, well then I say cheers to him.
If HRC wants to try to bash him on it... and is hoping Democrats will condemn him for working on the board of such a non profit simply because there's an old-school radical on the board of directors.... well she's just gonna lose more support among democrats.
On the other hand... she might be able to lay the groundwork for McCain attacks on the subject. Well done.
The real point, as I see it, is... if you want a democratic candidate who hasn't got the "balls" to work on projects that might help develop neighborhoods like the South Side of Chicago.... simply because some "unsavory types" might be associated with him/her in the process... then by all means vote for HRC.
After all, isn't that what this whole primary is about??
HRC allies herself with the military/industrial complex, via the connections she develops through the Senate Armed Services Committee simply so that she's better aligned to woo the right wingers... and try to make up for her negatives...
God forbid that we should, as Democrats, have the nerve/"balls" to actually think of trying to run a candidate who hasn't played him/her self in the dog and pony show that is the right wing patriot game.
By all means... all you HRC supporters... if you're too afraid of the Republicans to take a chance on someone who's raising money from other sources than PACs, too afraid of the Republicans to take a chance on someone who's suggesting a new course may be possible, too afraid of the Republicans to take a chance on someone who just spent 15 months or so making a mockery of HRC, too afraid of the Republicans to take a chance on something as full of shit as a notion like "hope", too afraid of the Republicans to think that someone who just out performed what was recently thought to be the Star of the Democratic Party might be able to take the Republicans similarly by surprise, too afraid of the Republican party to think that- despite all the negatives coming along with the inheritance of GWB- this organizing and speaking "wunderkind" marvel, to describe BHO in terms that you might be willing to accept, might be able to out organize and out campaign ... friggin McCain?...
How friggin terrified of the Republican party are you people??
If there's any time that they can be beat, it's now.
Are you not willing to take the gamble and go for real change?... or... are you really, deep down, afraid of real change?
HRC won't change things much. Of that we can be certain. Who knows what this lunatic young'n BHO might do??
The reason that the vote has been so abysmal, overall, for candidates for decades is that there was scant difference between them. Like voting between Coke and Pepsi... who cares about the difference between Coke and Pepsi??
I should know. In '92 I wasn't even in the country to vote. In '96 I voted for Cthulu. Why bother to vote for the lesser Evil?
The only time I supported Bill Clinton, was when he was being hassled for having his dick sucked.
I mean, sure... it was tacky to be caught... but what the hell.. it was just a blow job...
Until that... no one I know cared one fuck about the difference between a Republican in office and a Democrat. We were born in the early 70's, and we couldn't tell the fucking difference.
We voted for Nader instead of Gore because Gore's wife prosecuted our punk rock bands in congress. Fuck Tipper. Sorry Al, will never vote for you. Tell your wife that she might've been the reason that GWB fucked up our country.
And here I come around full circle... HRC represents the same sort of ultra-right leftist as Tipper. So the youth says "Fuck You". Hell... I'm coming up on 40, and I still say Fuck You. And everyone I know says Fuck You.
And you know what... I don't care how it sounds... and this is just my opinion... but I agree with Reverend Wright's statements, and Ayers' statements, just as much as many agree that they're bitter.
I'm not black, but I know they been fucked over, and have every right to be pissed. Wright, much as BHO said, from that point of view, was completely justified in EVERYTHING he said.
And Ayers, well... he was a nut job back in the day, probably... but... isn't this a country where even the points of view of nut jobs are supposed to be aired, if nothing else, before they're judged?
I wouldn't've minded if the Weather Men had bombed my local DMV. Or half a dozen other local government offices.
HRC's notion, from the most recent debate, that being a rep from the vicinity of NYC gave her special permission to be extra judgemental... that's bullshit.
9/11 9/11 9/11 ... HRC, you just made a claim of inheritance of Giuliani's horseshit platform.
Fuck off....
Ohh yeah. All of you HRC supporters who keep insisting that she's got the nomination in the bag... please... lay off the glue. It's bad for you.
And, just for the record... I still think HRC sounds wonderful as a candidate everytime I hear her speak. The problem is she tends to speak first... and when I hear BHO speak afterward.... well, I'm quickly over HRC.
It's not meant as an insult... nor an attack on her competence... she just flubbed the memo to the black guy informing him that it was her turn, as far as I can tell. Maybe she didn't take him seriously enough to bother to offer sufficient payola to make it worth his while to wait his turn.
Or, maybe, he saw that this time around the Republicans had so disarrayed themselves, that a whacky idea like hope might actually stand a chance.
I notice that HRC didn't have the gumption to wade into the fray in 2004. She was content to sit back and snipe at John Kerry, in an attempt to bolster her non-liberal cred.
I might just hold that against her.
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