Did you know that John McCain is older than the state of Alaska, the polio vaccine and the chocolate chip cookie? He is also older than Mount Rushmore, the nation of Israel and FM radio.
While McCain’s staff and supporters are likely to try to spin this as “ageism,” I agree with Ezra Klein:
That’s all sort of funny, but it also points to a more serious critique of McCain’s mindset, which mixes a deep desire for World War II-style heroics with a habituation to the paranoia and fear typical of the Cold War-era. What you don’t see in McCain is much recognition that the world has changed, that today’s threats are considerably less deadly than yesterday’s dangers, and that it’s been a very long time since America was a rigidly ordered society that needed its leaders to provide appropriate martial values.
While there is no shame in being older than the ballpoint pen, it is McCain’s stuck in time mindset that makes him unfit for the challenges that we are facing. McCain is trapped in the kind of mindset that led us into the Iraq war and that promises to keep American troops there for many years to come. We need and deserve better.
We need someone who is not stuck in the past to challenge Americans to unite to solve the current crises that we are facing including global warming, our crumbling healthcare system and our shattered international reputation.
The world has changed greatly even in just the last 7 disastrous years of the Bush administration.
We need a president who will inspire us to rise to met the challenges of our generation not ask us stick our collective fingers in our ears while shouting “We’re number 1! We’re number 1!”
I admit that I have never even thought about watching a rugby game, but seeing photos like this make me wonder what I am missing.
This picture will appear in the June issue of Cosmopolitan UK. It is part of a series to raise awareness of male cancers in testicular cancer and prostrate cancer.
It is now clear to everyone except Hillary Clinton that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Clinton has no chance of taking the nomination except by superdelegate fiat which would rip the party apart. The superdelegates, while not having shown much political courage, can’t possibly be stupid enough to commit electoral hari kari to satisfy Clinton’s blonde ambition.
With that in mind, I say let’s move past Clinton and her Don Quixote-like quest and focus on what is most important: electing Barack Obama to the White House and preventing a third Bush term in the form of John McCain.
IN SHARP CONTRAST to Clinton’s transparent, over-the-top pandering (downing shots with the locals and touting a phony love of guns), Obama has managed to stay above the fray, even during the darkest moments of the Wright saga. He could have gone sharply negative in the run-up to North Carolina and Indiana, as some advised him to do. Instead, he stuck to his own metaphorical guns and rose above the faux controversies and petty attacks. Even in victory Tuesday night, Obama praised Clinton and promised that his supporters would back her if she emerged as the party nominee.
But she didn’t emerge victorious and the time has come for her supporters, gay and straight, to embrace Obama’s campaign for the White House. The stakes are too high to allow primary race disappointments to demoralize Democratic voters. And the stakes for gay voters are higher.
Exactly. There is far too much at stake for gay voters to indulge Clinton’s delusional continuation of her primary race.
That is the question that must be asked after Clinton said:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
Hard-working white Americans? As opposed to the shiftless and lazy Negroes who tried to steal HER rightful claim to the presidency by voting for Barack Obama?
During this primary season Hillary Clinton has morphed into the worst kind of politician. She has proven again and again with Bill invoking Jesse Jackson before the South Carolina primary, Andrew Cuomo using the term “shuck and jive” in reference to Obama and Geraldine Ferraro saying that Obama is only where he is because he Black, that she is willing to campaign in ways that are racist and divisive.
I was telling a friend just yesterday that I was beginning to feel sorry for her because she had worked so hard to win the nomination but was coming up short. Now I just want Clinton and her cynical, manipulative and divisive politics to just go away.
After last night, I think it is clear to everyone that Barack Obama will be the Democratic presidential nominee. Even Hillary Clinton and her team have to realize that while she ran a strong campaign, it’s over. MSNBC is reporting that she has cancelled television appearances that were scheduled for today.
Barack whipped her badly in North Carolina. Indiana was a tie, not the tiebreaker that Clinton supporters had hoped.
As Tim Russert says, “We now know who the Democratic nominee will be.”
After the 3 most hellish weeks of the campaign so far, Barack stood his ground, weathered the storm and now appears stronger.
Now is the time to come together to unite the party to win the White House and increase the number of progressive Democrats in the House and Senate. One key question is whether or not Clinton will be on the ticket as the vice-presidential candidate.
