You Heard It Here First

I told you Hillary Clinton wasn't out by any means. Just like that one-eyed Russian on Lost (where the hell is he, anyway? On the boat???Ben's inside man? ) she came back from improbable odds. The thing with the Clintons is that they will manufacture the rules so as to fit their dilema. "Sex with that woman? Absolutely not." "Oh, that didn't work, well then this isn't about my lying, it's about the right-wing conspiracy!" "This campaign isn't about change and the nation's economy, absolutely not, it's about all the foregin experience I racked up being the wife of someone who has foreign experience." She will move and manipulate and blow whichever way the wind blows to get elected. She will govern similarly and I have a theory that may not be so bad. I'll explain it later.

My beef right now is about this lack of foreign experience argument with Obama. Hello? Ever heard of Governor Bill Clinton from Arkansas? Ever heard of John F. Kennedy? Have you ever read the book, "Thirteen Days" or seen the movie of the same name. Kennedy saved the world from nuclear annihlation. All the generals and advisors were pushing for a strike on Cuba or an invasion during the '62 Cuban Missile crisis. Kennedy with little or no foreign expereince had a gut feeling that wasn't the appropriate strategy and began the embargo that worked. It took guts to stand up to the genereals and a certain "wiser than my age" temprement to not start a full blown war.

Hey I just looked up "Thirteen Days" and saw that Roger Donaldson directed it. I just read a glowing review of his new film "The Bank Job". My man Peter Travers at Rolling Stone really liked it.

The other point I'd like to make is the Hillary Clinton is incredibly formidable opponent and Obama has gone toe to toe with her. The guy has guts and brains and vision. Get us to the brink of a war and bring in some trusted national security advisors and he will make a damn good decision. He's no dummy. It has taken a very special person to overcome his odds and get this far. It's really sort of despicable that she would try to paint him in this light, but he's steely he's going to punch back. And there, that's him, that's why he's a great candidate and could be a great president--he can be eloquent and almost prophetic, but he can also take care of himself.

I was delighted by a NPR story I heard yesterday on my way home from work. NPR interviewed two literary reviewers, one from the Washinton Post and the other one from I can't remember where. They reviewed the books of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain. They both agreed that Obama's first book that he wrote prior to being a politician was very good--that he was a great writer with some real skills. They were also very fond of McCain and said that his writings were a very good reflection of who he was. Clinton, well they both agreed her work was not very good and was in fact, boring. Very standard and conventional writing by a political candidate.

Tonight I made sausage cornbread for the second time and it's really good. Really good.

No pictures. What's up with that?