This week's headlines:
We start out with remnants of the stories of John McCain's "pastor problem," then move on to McCain and Obama arguing about Iraq. But no one is really tuned into Iraq, so the weather gods did the news a favor and brought a number of deadly tornadoes to the Midwest…
MY COMMENT: Why does anyone give any attention to crazy pastors? I'm sure there are plenty of hard working and sincere ministers out there trying to help people with their physical, economic, moral and spiritual problems, so why do we give press to those few nutjobs who get involved in politics or foreign affairs or controversial topics. Let's just end the tax break for religions, and shove religion back in the churches. If the media would not cover these insane showmen, we could focus on more important things, like health care and the cost of gasoline.
More tornadoes this year than ever before. Climate change anyone?
…The coverage of tornadoes got boring after a day or two, so it was fortunate that former lightweight press secretary under Bush, Scott McClellan, went on a book tour for his book about "What Happened" while he was in the White House, and he didn't have many good things to say. As White House spokespersons all expressed how "puzzled" they were by Scott's book, and various media outlets either praised him for his honesty or criticized him for his disloyalty, or accused Scott of using liberal bloggers to write the book (no, I'm not kidding), the Republicans obviously needed a distraction…
MY COMMENT: Scott McClellan is an idiot. He was an idiot as press secretary when he looked like his head contained only pre-recorded talking points, and he is an idiot now who wants to sell a book. I have absolutely no sympathy for the morons who supported these criminal monsters: the president and vice president. It is too late to be sorry. You can't bring back those dead Americans in Iraq and New Orleans, and you can't bring back those dead Iraqis. Scotty and the rest of the people surrounding George Bush are either the stupidest people on the planet or the most criminal. No one should buy this man's book. He is six years too late.
…The distraction from McClellan turned out to be a tape of a radical Catholic priest giving a guest sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama's (former?) church. Obama wasn't there, of course, and while this priest allegedly spent a short time on a panel of ministers doing outreach to churches or advising for the campaign, it has been decided by the media that he is Obama's new "pastor problem"….
MY COMMENT: Read the first comment above.
….This morning, the deadly collapse of a second crane in New York City pushed the crazy pastor story out of the headlines (because stories about New York are always more important than anything else). Tomorrow, the DNC rules committee meeting will push the crane, pastor, tornado, and McClellan stories out of the headlines…
MY COMMENT: The news will cover the women protesting at the DNC event, women who think Hillary Clinton must be crowned queen of America because she is the symbol of female equality and who are demanding that the DNC seat all of the delegates from Michigan and Florida. I don't think they should seat any of them, because not only did they break the clear rules set out by the DNC, but all the candidates agreed to abide by those rules. Now the losing candidate wants to change the rules so she can win. This is an example of what some call "situational ethics." If it feels good, do it. If you can't win by following the rules, change the rules. Democrats have been accused time and again of operating according to situational ethics and of not having a backbone. The DNC needs to show the country and the renegade states that they can enforce rules and that they have a backbone. They need to stick to their rules, make a sane decision, and tell Hillary' it is time for her to accept reality. In time, Michigan and Florida will get over it and decide that that voting for McCain will just give them four more years of Bush.
…..Then we have the final primary elections - in Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana - and the drama Hillary will provide when she decides whether or not she is going to continue to hold the party hostage…
MY COMMENT: Puerto Rico is irrelevant. They cannot vote in the general, so while they have been given some power to help choose the nominee, the popular vote there should not be included in Hillary's bogus popular vote count. Besides, why is anyone in the press falling for this popular vote argument? The party chooses the nominee on the basis of delegates won, not popular votes. Since many of the caucus states don't record the actual popular vote, there is really no way of knowing who won the most popular votes, regardless of the fairy tale Hillary is spinning.
Why is anyone letting Hillary determine the metrics for winning? And furthermore, didn't the Clintons cause the Democratic Party enough trouble in the late nineties, including making it impossible for Al Gore to win in the 2000 election? Why on earth would anyone give them a second opportunity to lose an election for the Democrats by trying to change the rules and using prolonged negative campaigning against the nominee?
Can't wait for next week's headlines!
