Rest in Peace, Ted.

R.I.P.

Resting a wee bit easier

Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State.
Clinton is set to add secretary of state to her storied resume

Other than the Kennedy clan there is no other political family that has been such a powerful force for good . (The Kennedys are behind everything from the Peace Corps to the Special Olympics.)
Hillary has spent a large part of her working life on women and children's issues. And The Clinton Foundation is a remarkable success.

Of course, The Clinton "family" as a force is but 2 people. Given that one can presume that Obama will have to spend an enormous amount of time on the failed economy - Hillary Clinton may well carve out an enormous power base in the world and the White House. This would be good news. There are few people in D.C. I trust more than Hillary Clinton to be the face of America around the world.


If Obama continues to appoint Clinton Administration veterans I hope he has the good sense to get out of the way and let the grown ups do their work. Back to the future!

Knife Job

Frank Rich does a knife job on Senator Clinton today. It's horrible that she "lied" about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Why would he mention that the pilot took evasive action to avoid sniper fire? Why would he mention that everyone on the plane was instructed to sit on their flak jackets to avoid sniper fire? There's really no point in Mr. Rich doing anything whatsoever to aid Senator Clinton.

Let's look at a couple of things.

Senator Obama's Buys His Dream House.

The real-estate deal began when a Chicago couple (two doctors) took jobs elsewhere and put their property - a lovely, spacious home in Kenwood with a vacant yard -- on the market. The Obamas liked the house but lacked the money to buy both the house and vacant yard.

What happened next is where the questions arise. Obama recently acknowledged that he toured the property with Rezko. After that, Obama made a discounted offer for the house, and, at about the same time, Rezko made a full-price offer for the side yard. Both offers were accepted. So, the obvious question is: Was there any hidden link between Rezko's full price deal and the discounted price Obama paid?

First off, this happened in June of 2005. I sold my house in a day at full price in June of 2005. This was the tail end of the hottest housing market I can remember and he got the house at a discounted price? Something is up here and hopefully, when Rezko is found guilty he will sing like a canary and we'll find out more. Gosh, maybe even the press might look into it and do some investigating, wait, I must be day dreaming.


The Wright Stuff

Senator Obama is not a Muslim. And there would be nothing wrong if he were. My issue is him sitting a church for twenty years listening and allow his children to listen to bitter, hate filled speech. Then LIE about it. If, as the meme goes, Senator Clinton were willing to do ANYTHING to win this story would have come out sometime last January. It would have been goodbye, Barry. If Senator Clinton's "Lie" about Bosnia is deserving of a column by Mr. Rich why isn't this? First he said he never heard any of the controversial things Reverend Wright said, then he did, then he said that Rev Wright apologized though he didn't, then when you read his book, The Audacity of Hope, which gets it title from one of Reverend Wright's sermons, you learn that the first sermon he heard was rather controversial. And it made him cry.

How I Met Your Father

Senator Obama has credited then Senator Jack Kennedy for bringing his father to America as part of the airlift to get Kenyans here to study. Barack Obama, Sr. came the year before Senator Kennedy got involved. Senator Obama also used the civil rights movement, saying that his parents met because something was stirring in the air when people walked across the bridge in Selma. Something that occurred four years after Obama, Jr. was born. It's a lovely story, but it's just that, a story. Why is he not called on the carpet for at least, mis-remembering?

Michelle Oh so angry

I'm just going to paraphrase Ed Koch

A woman who went to Princeton and Harvard who's husband went to Harvard, who's husband was elected to state senate and the US Senate is just now proud of her country? What does she expect? Exactly how entitled is she? Believe me when I tell you she will one of his biggest liabilities in a general campaign if it comes to that.

Kind of Blue

Senator Obama has won more states! He's won more states! Has he won enough blue states? Has he won purple states that we need to win in a general? If he can't win California or New York or Florida in the primaries how is he going to carry them in the general? Senator Clinton has won more Democratic votes than him and with the Rev. Wright he can count out much Republican cross over. Or independents for that matter. As he continues to push for Michigan and Florida to be disenfranchised any opportunity he might have had to win those states in a general are GONE.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually watch tv or read a news paper and get some hard information on the young senator from Illinois? Wouldn't it be lovely if Senator Clinton were not being shoved out of the old boy's club and we could talk about her grasp of the issues?

Oh so loverly.