Hillary, and other stuff

Hillary Clinton in the last couple of weeks has lost my vote. I was leaning away from her already, but her recent gaffes have swayed me. She has fudged or even re-invented experiences which were easily exposed. I have spent the last seven years steaming over the blatant dishonesty of the Bush administration; I can't support Hillary when she's showing dishonesty. In fact, her attacks and stories are all looking like whatever is politically expedient to get elected...not what I'm looking for. I hope enough people see this so that her tactics don't work.


So in the last couple of days poverty-stricken people in nation after nation around the world have been protesting the rising prices of food. What happened so that so many people in so many places all did the same thing at the same time? Clearly they weren't organized by a central committee. And we didn't hear about it in America until it was happening...the media didn't consider it important in earlier stages. The punch line: tonight, while poverty, starvation, and the protests over food prices still go on, the top headline on my homepage is that Mary-Louise Parker has broken off her engagement. Ah, America. You gotta love it.

But we have heard that the Olympic torch has been having a tortuous journey. Part of me remembers the U.S. boycotting the Olympics under President Carter (one of the few things I disagreed with him on) because I don't think sports should be held hostage to politics. But another part of me is satisfied that activists have a legitimate point this time and are capitalizing on the world's focus on China to make their voices heard. It's really something, isn't it, when legitimate dissent can't be suppressed?

From the Shooting Sunset dictionary:
Change (n): a rut leveled