Hello Hello-I Don’t Know Why You Say Goodbye I Say Hello.
And the dream ends.
This version, anyway.
This act.
Next?
Read on.
All media appearances canceled today?
LOTS of backroom action in progress. Bet on it.
Lots of people now talking down Obama’s chances against McCain.
She must decide…now…whether to:
1-Try to get the Vice-Presidency. (If Obama will have her, of course. Her presence on the ticket almost definitely guarantees a win, y’know, a big enough win to count as a coattail-grabbing landslide for lots of Dems, and those Dems will be looking for assurances. I think that she will do it if Obama will make some serious promises about an expanded role, and I further think that he will feel some serious pressure from some serious players to do so. There are literally trillions of dollars at stake here. Remember…it’s all about the money when you get right down to it. Obama, Clinton, McCain, Bush….same same. Different interests all betting that it will be THEIR money that predominates. At this level it is ALL about the money. If the money prospers, Americans prosper. That’s the theory upon which this whole system is working, anyway. Is it right? Correct in its understanding of how human society really functions? Historically? It has been “right” for all of recorded human history. The guy who’s gonna acquire the most goats gets to be the real boss no matter who sits in the Chief’s chair. As above, so below. Bet on it. )
2-Make good on her not very enthusiastic sounding promises to “support the Democratic candidate no matter who it is” and remain a force in the Senate with an eye towards 2012 if Obama stumbles or a possible important cabinet position if he wins. I personally doubt the 2012 idea. If she ran and won in 2012 she would be eyeing an 8 year Presidency, and in 2020 she will be about 75 years old. She knows the stresses of that office from the inside. Do you really think that she wants to be hauling her already rapidly expanding butt around the world dealing with dangerous predators like Vladimir Putin at 75? I don’t.)
or
3-Take some sort of action against Obama, action that could include a range that stretches from simply going neutral and essentially sitting the rest of this process out right across the board to pulling some sort of Liebermanesque jog to the right, including the (admittedly remote) possibility of running on the McCain ticket.
All options are open.
May you be born into interesting times.
AG
P.S. I watched her speech last night.
I do not normally feel “sorry” for Bill Clinton…he has led a life my friends, a life that is great novel level material…but as he stood behind her last night he looked so sad for his wife. For both of them, really. It was the end of an overarching dream after being this close. Now those of you who are kneejerk Clinton haters will most certainly mock this idea but they are human beings just like you and me, with dreams and goals and validity to their lives, and they have fought as well as they knew how to fight for what they believe. Fought with the tactics that got them there in the first place. They are NOT demons nor are they villains in any sense of the word.
They just got a little…old.
I mean…Mommy DID make a dead serious run at the Presidency, right? And Daddy did a pretty good job in that esteemed office until he messed up.
Right?
Right.
So it goes.
Next?
We shall see.
We shall SOON see.
Bet on it.
I am.
AG
P.S.The Slightest Idea
The moon
and I call each other moon.
And the sun and I call each other sun,
while all this truth also exists:
I have been so crazy in love with the earth for the last fifty years,
that not for one second have I lifted my head out from beneath
her skirt.
Who
is that
wild looking character then,
who can shop in the market and tend for his family,
that some may call
Kabir?
I don’t have the slightest
idea.
Kabir-15th century Sufi poet.
From Love Poems From God
Twelve Sacred Voices From
The East and West
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Eh, okay. I can see 1 more than 2, but of course everything we’ve seen so far points towards 3 and until I see empirical evidence that solidly says she’s taking option 1 (an announcement from Obama on that) or option 2 (an announcement from Clinton on that) I’m assuming option 3 is her current trajectory.
OT
Re: Springsteen? I don’t think so. (none / 0)
Off Topic, a little Mr Gilroy.
As a reader of quite a few general knowledge subscriptions & also scientific ones, I came across a tidbit that might interest you.
The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, is mentioned in the “Jukebox” section of the May issue of Smithsonian.
Regrettably, the online version is not available yet, where one will be able to hear some pre-recordings (oxymoronic?) of some of the jazz performances echoing between the pyramids.
I, with my powers of deduction, am presuming then, that Lenny Foy, in the image attached to the article, must be one of your ‘confreres’, on that cultural exchange trip to Egypt.
Now, I`ll be checking in to the Smithsonian home page regularly till the current issue is on line, to listen in.
Is my deduction correct?
The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don’t set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.
by KNUCKLEHEAD on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 08:48:44 PM EST
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Dunno how well the recording went. Too much sand, too much heat. But you’re right.
Lenny’s an old friend and fine trumpet player.
Haven’t seen the hype. I never look, to tell you the truth. Too busy making music.
Later…
S.
That wouldn’t be action against Obama, that would be the absolute best thing that she could possibly do for him – disappear. He doesn’t need her for anything – those who wouldn’t vote for him before won’t vote for him because she’s on his ticket, and probably weren’t going to vote Democratic anyway.
Point being, given my druthers, let’s do hope for 3 – it’s the best possible outcome. Her joining the McCain ticket would validate Obama’s ticket in spades (Change vs. the same old Washington politics) so that would help him all the more. Yes, give me Door #3, please.