If you are the best person for a job it should be apparent by your past performance and accomplishments. It will have been observed by others as to how well you have been able to do the job you were selected for. There should be no need to carry on in this circus type of environment that are American politics today. Carrying on like an uncontrolled fool, as many have in public, speaks poorly for those trying to achieve the goal of president. Those running for office look immature and childish in many instances boasting or claiming what they have done. For the most part, people know already if you did or didn’t do something.

Mudslinging should never be a part of this process. Trying to bring others down to a level beneath you, shows the public that you are a very small person inside to begin with by stooping to this type of behaviour just to make you feel better or to look superior.

Ok folks,
This is a tad bit curious, but I suspect maybe just a minor typo, and nothing to be real bugged about. But, you’ll see that it’s another piece from Bill Boyarsy, and is attributed to Truthdig, but I’ve not yet seen this PARTICULAR piece from Boyarsky, on the TD site. Instead, we’ve been discussing the one where he says Obama is ‘vague’.

Anyway, this was on TruthOUT, (which routinely carries articles from TruthDIG and Robert Scheer, and others who also contribute to Truthdig).
Anyway, I’m only just now getting a chance to get to it, and I thought I might share it, since it DOES appear to be a different piece from the one about Obama’s vagueness, and has additional and/or updated stuff on candidate positions on some of the primary issues.

The Battleground of New Hampshire
By Bill Boyarsky
Truthdig
Monday 07 January 2008

The war is so costly, no president will be able to tackle key domestic issues like health care until we exit Iraq.

Manchester, NH - When Hillary Clinton, seriously set back by the Iowa caucuses, landed in New Hampshire to resuscitate her presidential campaign, the first question from the audience was unsparingly blunt: “When will the troops come home?”

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010908E.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTnHx5qVQU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac

I don’t feel no ways tired…

Just posted this elsewhere. I tip my hat to the spin doctor who figured that New Hamphire’s female Democrats were stupid enough to believe that this Prada-dressed, bankrolled elitist, millionaire pretender is ‘exhausted’ after two primary campaigns and a year from the election, and completely melts down on cue. What the HELL does she have to cry about? Her pharmaceutical backers’ quarterly dividends being below projections? Just another Clinton running another scam. We heard all this before when she blamed the accusations against her zipper-job, alleycat-morals hubby as being untrue manifestations of a right-wing conspiracy to defame him. Poor Hillary, life is so hard when you have everything, except honesty.

Those psychopathic types are really good at turning on the waterworks at just the right moment. Bill would give us a throaty, “I feel your pain.” Put her in office, and we will still be stuck in Iraq. Remember we have a fortress embassy, and the Establishment has talked of a hundred years war against terrorism. This is just a reverse Nixon with a twist. Remember ‘68, and the Leaving the War with Honor crap. Le même chose ici. The Establishment was more heavy handed in ‘68 when it came to engineering the election with the crippling of George Wallace and the murder of RFK. They did not want to leave anything to chance. Rockefeller’s charity case case, Nixon, on his lord’s retainer after being kicked around so much, could now enter office. This time around the Establishment has crooked voting machines. All those assassinations and crashed commuter planes were starting to look too contrived, so they had to mix it up a bit. Funny how we have these elections where the polls are always wrong. Really funny.

By purplewolf, January 8: “...take your hormones, or at least your Lithium pills. You seem to be suffering from PMS again...... this is not written by a male writer either picking on the so called weaker sex. It was written by another female....”

That clearly indidcates that you suffer from JEALOUSY, purplewolf.  I get disgusted with whiny people regardless of gender...., uhh.

Well at least we know when “Billary” doesn’t win the nomination and certainly not the election - She will always have a career in Hollywood. Hell of a performance hillary… I’m sure she shed lot’s of tears when her husband had Vince Foster Murdered.

Why hasn’t anyone held Hillary’s feet to the fire when she claims that represents 35 years of change?  I will give her credit for 35 years of campaigning but please identify the policies enacted where she was the agent of change.  Does she have her career confused with that of her husband Bill?  She was elected to the senate in 2000 and the Democrats haven’t advanced much of anything since.

Hillary’s performance in the New Hampshire restaurant was intended to humanize her but it didn’t work very well.  She seemed to be whining more than speaking from the heart. 

One day she is in pit bull mode attacking Obama, the next day she is spilling her guts to strangers in a restaurant. 

So much for “inevitablity.”

I don’t believe those crocodile tears for a minute.  Hopefully we won’t so easily forget how “sincere” and “conservative” GW was DURING HIS CAMPAIGN also.

Clinton is one of them, she’s proven it over and over again.  She is not for the people and everyone knows it.  If there was any validity to those tears it was the realization of the possible loss of the empire she had hoped to command.

As a woman, I am sick and disgusted by Clinton’s poor little girl act. What a princess she is-back when her throne was inevitable, she always had that smug, self-satisfied look after she responded to every softball tossed her way. How dare anyone roll up the red carpet of the Bush-Clinton dynasty!!!! Recall how they manipulated “Dean’s scream” (something the pundits still sneer at as if it was credible rather than manufactured)by replaying it endlessly and reinforcing the common perception that he was somehow off his nut--when he was holding a pep rally for his supporters. This poor widdle Hillary piece--a continuation of those-bad-boys-are-picking-on-me is cynically used for the sympathy vote and it stinks of Nixon-you-won’t-have-me-to-kick-around-anymore whining. On the one hand Clinton claims she has all this experience--and then she wails about the country “falling backwards”. Ahh--excuse me, Senator Clinton, but the reason the rallying cry of “change” is so inspiring is because folks are sick of the enabling trend promoted by the DLC brand of new Democrat that done brought us to the brink of the abyss. Instinctively they grasp at the concept-without realizing Obama’s happy talk of bi-partisanship and unity employed as triangulation strategy ultimately leads to capitulation.The problem is Obama is a slicker operator than Hillary. the last thing we need in these times is a weepy woman---gees could you make it any worse for the rest of us, Hillary?

I would never have voted for Hillary--ever.  All that haughtiness and refusals to answer questions have now crumbled into a new kind of confessional and vulnerable openness...because she is losing.  And I imagine it hurts a lot.  Despite her mistakes, she is no Joe Liebermann and while she deserves to be roughed up a little in a fair fight, I don’t think she merits a steel-toed ass-kicking.

Hillary got caught looking old against the hormonal surge that pulsates around Obama.  Middle-aged myself, I recognize as aspect of the rejection she’s encountering.  Older women are prematurely devalued in this country; a jowl drops and you’re kicked off the air, replaced by the tight-assed college grad with perky tits that aren’t really a factor because she’s so smart!  Experience and wisdom--the kind that comes from having made a lot of mistakes that you overcame to keep you not only standing but thrusting forward--are reduced to utterances shouted against the wind.  (After all, you’re wearing Easy Spirits not stillettos and there’s that bulge fold protruding under your bra in the back.)

Let’s not kick her ass out the door.  She doesn’t deserve that.  She’s done more with her life than many of us have--despite being married to a man who embarassed her all over the planet.  I didn’t want her for president, but I’ll give her a standing ovation as she exits stage left.

Consider this:
When the Clintons entered the white house in 93 they didn’t have a pot to piss in.  Today their wealth is estimated at $12 million and growing.  Clinton receives from $500,000 to $1,000,000 for speeches and appearences around the world.  Being president today means the chance to amass a personal fortune.  You’d cry too if you saw that opportunity going down the drain.

“I just don’t want to see us fall backward as a nation,” she said as she became more upset.”

I doubt there’s a dem alive could take the nation any farther backward than we have been led in the last eight years!

Unless they CHOSE to STAY in Iraq! And CHOSE to maintain CURRENT foreign and fiscal policy!