I browsed some of the responses to my last post about Eliot Spitzer.
Thank you to those that expressed understanding of my main point. However, I was sorry to see two things here. One was the vitriol expressed toward Spitzer's work as New York Attorney General, particularly his investigations and prosecutions in the financial services field. I direct your attention to a recent profile of Louis Auchincloss in the New Yorker magazine. Auchincloss hated FDR, as did his Silk Stockings friends. Later in life, Auchincloss grew to appreciate Roosevelt's regard for the integrity of financial markets in this country and reevaluated FDR's creation of the SEC.
So much hatred spewing forth about Spitzer's convictions. There is tremendous corruption on Wall Street. Is America becoming a land where "I stole it fair and square" is becoming the ethical order of the day?
The second thing that no one commented on was my David Paterson admonition. McCain's choice of running mate will be the most crucial since 1960, when millions presumed Kennedy alone was not enough and needed to be bolstered by a Veep with greater experience. The result was an historically close election.
For altogether different reasons, watch McCain's choice. Few men (or maybe, craftily, a woman?) will enter the West Wing with a greater chance of becoming president than this VP. McCain is not what one would consider a healthy man. Inheriting the Bush mess certainly holds no cure.
Regarding Europe's future as well as the world's I hope a Democrat will win the election - I don't care about who it will be finally, as long as it is not a Republican. That does not mean that I am a fan of Democrats, it is just the less of the two evils.
"vitriol?" You couldnt just say noxious? I had to go to a dictionary to understand you - such linguistic prowess from a kid from Massapequa, hehe. I once got lost in Massapequa going to My Father's Place.
America has become the land of the "free to take you for a ride." How about this recent interest rate cut? The Fed and the media have become so proficient at snowing the American people that most dont see b.s. even if it hit them in the face. "I stole it fair and square" screams sociopathic pride in being able to get over on anyone and everyone, yet it is a sad, but true depiction of America. It starts at the top and trickles down.
"The second thing that no one commented on was my David Paterson admonition." All I can say to that Mr. Baldwin is OY VEY for the state of NY.
My sense is that McCain's running mate may very well pale in comparison to McCain, if that is possible.
As for the first thing: my only negative feeling about Spitzer stems from the way I feel he trashed his family, not his political accomplishments.
Second thing: I noticed your admonition and noted that you did not elaborate. I took that to mean you were less than thrilled, but didn't want to say anything negative about the guy before he was even sworn in.
As for the VP spots, I'm conserving my energy at the moment. I'm thinking there will be plenty of time for hysteria when all the speculation is over and the actual short lists come out.
It won't be Huckabee or any other Revival Tent Repubican. Nor will it be someone from the far right like SCarolina's Gov Sanford. Losers don't get onto national tickets so there will be no George Allen. Besides racists need not bother to apply.
There will be a total and clean break from Bush. Or at least an attempt. If by some twist of fate, Clinton should end up the nominee, the GOP will reunite for one last huge hurrah.
It's nice to think about something positive, like St Patrick's Day for a change, on our home front. If he wasn't the first, he might as well have been; Malachy McCourt, ( author of the book, "The Clauddaugh Ring"), asked a long time back that the national guard, ( New YorK's) , return to our shores to protect us. That is my first political issue, which, would effect the economy positively. We see not the war dead nor their families in this war, so with McCain people suffer abroad; here at home, people won't be affording raising kids, "decently". Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, is like my big sister; a generation ahead of me, who saw the Vietnam era economy , like myself . More importantly, viewed the war dead and their loved ones in that era! (If anyone is for Hillary or into humor, about our election plight, I google Spirited Dona; you'll see democratic blog), We are blessed to have America! With the national guard away, I have promised to defend Massapequa "and " Tennessee. But I am only one woman. Somebody else, take Hoboken and Georgia!
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Honestly, is it possible for someone to ramble off topic by making less of a point than you did? Here's a tip - "Don't read it". You are a guest on this site so show some decorum.
But this is what we are teaching our children now. Screw anyone to make a dime and
never be held responsible. Thank you George Bush.
You're right. McCain could go at any moment. But as we note who is VP choice is, let's work to make sure they never make it to the WH.
Funny, but I believe the complicit participatants in Whitewater held office before G-Dub. We can go way back before the Clintons to see this kind of operation in America. Way back.
Whatever you think of prostitution and whether or not it should be legal, their is a huge amount of hypocrisy in Spitzer's actions, given his heavy handed prosecution of prostitution.
I wonder if the Condi Rice talk is all hype or not. She is young enough, and does not seem to have any skeletons, and has a lot of experience, just not as an elected official.
This means that it is almost a sure thing that John McCain will be our next president.
So, how could it get worse? Well, McCain could choose (or be told to choose) Michael Chertoff as his running mate -- and you probably thought having Dick Cheney as VP was as bad as it could be.
I would not be surprised to learn that there is already some discussion of Chertoff on the ticket with McCain. Chertoff has concentrated agencies and power under his command that make him personally almost as powerful as Bush, or even Cheney. In addition to the officially recognized consolidations, Chertoff also has taken over much of the responsibilities of the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. No matter how much he screws up or launches silly new rules to protect us from an unseen enemy, he seems to be immune from criticism.
Next, ask a life insurance actuary what McCain's chances are of serving out even his first term, let alone the second term. He is a 71-year-old cancer survivor (malignant melanoma).
Then we have the frightening possibility of President Chertoff.
How secure would you say, in comparison to how secure we were on September 10, 2001, under a similar no-nonsense, tough-talkin' Republican?
Do me a favor Mr Republican troll. Don't offer to protect me. You suck at it
And be careful what you wish for. I recall making a joke after the 1980 election...'Reagan in '80 - Bush in '82'. And look where that got us.