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January 11, 2008
The Empress has no clothes
Something funny happened on the way to the ballet boxes. New Hampshire residents proved to be unpredictable again. The pundits have been puzzled. They were all correct in predicting the Republican vote. The polls before the election had predicted McCain to win by five points. I guess the conservatives in New Hampshire are from a different stock.
Chris Mathews, of Hardball, was surprised and sad. I guess the idealist democrat in him felt betrayed again by the established political Democrat machine. Considering the loss he had felt after losing JFK, RFK, and Dr Martin Luther King during the sixties, he was not ready to let go of another Dream or a Dreamer. In his disappointment he lashed at Senator Clinton. " we all know that the only reason she got elected to the Senate was the Sympathy vote. being betrayed by her husband, and that catapulted her to where she is now". That was a bold statement coming from a pundit who has been a Clinton enabler himself many a times. During his other shows since the election, Mathews brought back the subject again in his quest to find out why the polls were wrong. In some way he was pushing maybe for some other pundits to suggest how Massachusetts is not that far from New Hampshire and to vote in New Hampshire primary any one can register as long as they say, they have plans to move to New Hampshire in the next few month. !!!!!
This morning Mr Mathews was on The Morning Joe on MSNBC, trying to ease the wrath that had come his way by the ladies on THE VIEW, criticizing him for his lack of respect for Senator Clinton and her accomplishment. So He changed his statement to " It was the steel and the grace Senator Clinton had shown during the Lewinsky period that convinced the powers to be in New York to ask her to run for the Senate". It was a masterful act and unfortunately they did not have the video0 from the actual statement he had made to confirm him.
However the women Democrats in the press have not been kind to Senator Clinton, Maureen Dowd, and Camile Paglia both have criticized senator Clinton for lack of character and core. for demeaning the feminist movement
and taking the Women cause back. Senator Clinton though is adamant that what happened in New Hampshire forced her to find her voice, and after being criticised for wearing mostly Blue and Gray to showcase her steely resolve and power we also witnessed how she changed her colors, looking warmer and more feminine in Dark Green, Beige and even Orange. The senator does looks even pettier these days, she does wear more make up and her hair is better coiffed, she smiles more, as close as one could get to a complete over haul, or maybe it is the glow of her decisive win in New Hampshire that has stayed with her.
I have been receiving a few notes from my conservative friends after reading the two pieces I wrote about Senator Obama. " he is a Tax and spend Liberal" one of the notes said, " are you out of your mind " said another. I have said that I am a conservative and very far from senator Obama on Taxes , the War and The immigration. I think Senator Clinton would be much easier to defeat next November, but I have not been immune like many others to the charm of Senator Obama's message. I have always been a dreamer and have a soft spot for the ones of my elk. I am also fascinated by the problem that Senator Obama's candidacy creates for the Democrats, and how they will deal with the problem called Obama. So far though it seems some of the Democrats have come to see Senator Clinton without her clothes, and confirm how she is shapeless inside and out.
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January 09, 2008
" Yes We Can................
"We can still win and heal this nation" , said Mr, Obama at his concession speech. New Hampshire voted and by a four point margin stood behind the agent of Status quo. The safety of familiar won over the anxiety of change. As I said before it is the nobility and the ambitions of Mr Obamas message that is so irresistible. Yes, we have not dreamt for so long and we have settled for less for so long that it has become scary to dare even the thought of it.
This country has been built on dreams, this nation has progressed for its dreams. Now here is a man who does not try to divide and dreams of a union of this united states. He does not brand us, color code us, categorize us, manipulate us, he dares to inspire us, he dares to invite us to share a dream of our forefathers, noble men of our young history, for where would we all be without dreams and aspirations.
" The pale face has a forked tongue ", said Chris Mathews, the host of Hardball on MSNBC. That was the reason he offered when asked why the polls were so wrong in predicting the result of the primary election. He looked tired,
surprised and miffed. " They call this Wilder effect " he said, where the white man lies to the pollsters knowing he would never vote for man of a different race. I guess the Democrats have to accept their progressive ambitions does not include the other races.
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January 08, 2008
Red Wooden Soldiers
I see the wooden soldiers, dressed in red uniforms golden buttons and all. There have been roads I travelled and so many time I have turned back to take a last look. I have taken so much and given so little. There are ports waiting for the ships to arrive, and the airplanes line up to land. we are always going somewhere, we do not stay until love finds us. I still remember the first time I met her brown eyes and I knew I would lay my head on her lap quiet moments of all my evening and feel how I belong.
My mother made us both a magic robe of a cloth in tiny black and white checkers with red ribbons all around their edges and i felt so tall wearing mine. the women I loved and the girl I worship they are all here within me. He has been with me since I met him in a burst of lights and close up of an intimate introduction and he has been with me ever since. we have walked and I have listened while he whispered, We have walked while he listened and I yelped with youth burning me bright, now we both listen as the waves carry the lights to the shore and it is the depth of the this ocean moving within its currents that leave us in awe. we walk hand in hand close , so close that sometime its a shadow of a lonely figure that registers us in the scenery
Mystery tour of rain and snow, a shining sun and timid moon, days of drought and humid moving clouds. the atmosphere of changes that have settled within me, carrying me to the boundaries of secluded realms and crowded
solitudes. He molded me raw of a red clay and all the fragrant expectation of a dreamer burned with me to mold me outside the shadows, black and whites. I am of color and sounds, melodies and rhymes, i am of unfettered bruised wishes and unsettled climates of passions and wants, and yet I decipher the words and long for prayers, anxiety of contradictions, and solutions of calm. there are cyclones in me, tremors, quivers, fevers , he left me with so much.
My son is getting taller and the bones in his face, his skull, arms and legs are bulging, showcasing the youth that is so brash in him, so irresistible , around his tight muscles, supple lips and thick eyebrows. He growls walking around, and I walk behind him as time passes by.
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January 07, 2008
Barak Obama , The Noble Candidate
President Barak Obama would be such a noble reach in American politics. I am a conservative and I do not agree with Mr Obama on many issues, from taxes to Iraq war, but it is the audacity of his hope ( his book title;Audacity of Hope )and ambition, and its positive ramifications for this nation that is so very irresistible.
I told a friend of mine this morning, I wish we Republicans had a candidate like Obama. One of the most appealing characters of Mr Obama is the fact that he is not a black candidate, he is an African American that is not saddled by the whole sense of entitlement that handicaps most men of his race. He is a young well educated American politician with dreams that seem to inspire this demoralized cynical nation, and his message of CHANGE is so welcoming to a nation that is despondent and frustrated by it representatives.
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