The Myrtle Beach Rumble

Words that remain Unspoken

The debate of Democrat presidential contenders on the day commemorating Martin Luther King (MLK) was partly circus histrionics on who is more MiLKy WAY among the three contenders left standing after the original crop of ten. Pundits say that it was actually a rumble between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with John Edwards standing as the referee, making calls against Obama more than against Hillary... which boils down to white vis a vis black, unfortunately. Very interesting democrats ...

Although a wide range of issues were tackled during the deliberations, the stellar highlights focused on personal calls. Early in the campaign, Hillary posed rhetorical questions about the electability of Obama. The unspoken word is BLACK,therefore Obama is not electable. The unspoken word did not resonate with Iowa voters and Hillary was unceremoniously trounced. In New Hampshire, Hillary did a number on manipulating voters with body english which unmistakably relayed the unspoken words: "I am woman, pity me, vote for me". Surprisingly it worked with New Hamshirites. Hillary was ecstatic, and blurted "I have finally found my voice!" , meaning the unspoken words.

Now on the just concluded debate in South Carolina, she declared straightfacedly, although laced with bluster and braggadocio:
a... I can tackle foreign affairs effectively
b ... I can be commander in chief effectively
c. ... I am the agent of change, effectively for thirty six years
d ... etc, etc. etc.
and in all those pronouncements she did not utter the unspoken words: "because my husband Bill is behind me!!"
which prompted Barack Obama to wail ... "I am fighting two Clintons!" wherein he could have echoed Bill Clinton in New Hampashire "Give me a break!" but his body english spoke flawlessly with unspoken words echoing Dubya: "Bring 'em on!"

The Mark of a Demagogue

 

  John Edwards, former senator of North Carolina, and now candidate running for the White House, is beginning to show his true colors as the ultimate demagogue. He goes to great lengths to convince voters that he is the best candidate to run the White House, even if he has to drag his sick wife ailing from cancer to campaign for him. The purpose is to manipulate compassionate voters to commiserate with his wife's malaise. There are lots of compassionate voters who can relate to mrs. Edwards cancer but it is beginning to show that mrs. Edwards is nothing but a tool to sway voters and has nothing to do whether or not he is a capable commander in chief.

   Edwards is also pitching for the poor and downtrodden, trying to identify with their plight and promising all kinds of goodies to ameliorate their sorry condition.  This guy is a glib tallker and a liar, as manifest by the  two blinks per second of his eyes, and most importantly by his $400 haircut.

   The crowning laurels of Edwards's demagoguery is his strident pitch for veterans of Iraq war. He claims that 200,000 veterans are  forsaken by the current administration. After serving their country selflessly, all the get for their services is to be treated like rubbish and left out to sleep under the bridges and viaducts of highways. The veterans are left out in the cold, abandoned, says Edwards, by the current administration. This is the most blatant lie ever foisted by a candidate running for president.  It can evoke anger at Bush and elicit votes from the unsuspecting electorate, but such claim is dishonest and a showcase of demagoguery at it's worst.  The homeless veteran is not poor. They are homeless because of drug addictions, mental illness, and many other reasons, but certainly not because of poverty. Edwards know these facts, but it is convenient and earth-shattering to trumpet these woes of veterans for his own selfish reasons - to sway the voters to propel him to the White House.  If one cannot be honest to oneself, the White House is the wrong place to go. Edwards should be in a mental institution.

My Daemon

Courtesy of Goldencompassmovie.com

The Mark of a Chameleon

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

It wasn't long ago that Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign scoffed at the notion that young voters would deliver an election. How quickly things can change.

Just seconds into her speech Friday morning, Clinton was declaring herself the candidate for America's youth , stealing a page from the new Democratic presidential front-runner, Barack Obama. The night before, the under-30 crowd came out in larger numbers than ever in Iowa caucuses normally dominated by the AARP-card set, delivering victory for the Illinois senator who promised to bring change to Washington.

That's why after her third-place finish in Iowa, Clinton got off her plane in New Hampshire and declared: "This is especially about all of the young people in New Hampshire who need a president who won't just call for change, or a president who won't just demand change, but a president who will produce change, just like I've been doing for 35 years."

"I'm running for president to reclaim the future , the future for all of us, of all ages, but particularly for young Americans," she said a few seconds later...

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   It is incidental that chameleon rhymes with clinton, but surely  Hillary is rhyming up steadily as the campaign goes full throttle.  She is really dust in the wind, going whichever way the wind blows, such that when you open your eyes, it (dust in the wind) hurts. She is patently inauthentic, especially when listening to her, sounding so hollow without any semblance of sincerity in what she blurts out.   She is virtually a robot mouthing platitudes that are meaningless or at best, presumptuous.  It is not all that bleak really if and when she gets to the White House, it will become Gray House of Blue House, etc. and eventually be known as Chameleon House.