Regarding mentioning/not mentioning lies as well as fitness. How about phrasing it along lines of ‘fitness’ (mentally and physically) and not able to ‘handle the truth’.

re:obama & clinton — not too late for this, is it? i don’t think. i think jane raised te point uyesterday that this usually gets done after the primary. but the primary went late and was very hard fought. everybody would have l;iked the make-up to have been sooner but I don’t know if it ws realistic to exoect that. it’s done (i think. hope). better late than never, i guess.

Where, once upon a time, reasonable and rational folks could figure or imagine far enough into the future to consider ‘consequence’, our present collective ‘location’ (culturally speaking) on the ‘Thought-Chain’ regards ‘consequence’ as something that ALWAYS happens to someone else.

The mere notion that bombs, for example’ might fall on American ’soil’ is not merely unthinkable but also beyond the pale. Consider what such a thing would do to our notion of ‘fairness’?

It wouldn’t be ‘fair’, neither would it be ‘convenient’, and what would it do to ‘business as usual’?

Let us face the truth.

America is a fat, bloated, slob of a nation (the last ‘Great Empire’), which has just had its pockets picked, its legal system made into a mockery, its ‘principles’ pillaged, and its blood spilled all over the place, yet, the nation has, apparently, relished the adventure, thinking it happened to some other country, is barely wise enough to ‘know’ it is the greatest nation that ever wasn’t, and that whatever ‘Merkah’ wants, ‘Merkah’ gets … and, if there is too much resistance to ‘Merkah’ having her way … she’ll just simply go nu-cu-lar.

As all GOOD ‘Merkans’ are going to Heaven, where heavenly McMansions await, and, presumably, in Heaven, ‘Merkans’ can just keep on acting the same old way, why would the ‘average’ ‘Merkan’ not want Palin’s finger on THE BUTTON?

Maybe earth was ‘made’ for all of humankind, but Heaven is reserved for ‘Merkans’ of the right sort.

So it kindda doesn’t matter what happenes here, on Earth, any longer, when all these wonderful, righteous, folk is all giddy ’bout gettin’ ‘there’. (In their lifetime. Hmmmm, I thought ya had to be daid to get ‘in’ but must be ‘they’ have figured out how to ‘take it with them’: “Get yore heavenly grubsteak in order, time’s awasting’, get your off-planet accounts in order and invest in YOUR personal future by buying bombs …”)

Ain’t nothin’ like havin’ religious zealots and party-hardy boys at the helm when an Empire, as its sun sets, goes amok.

I mean, what’s the alterenative?

Thoughtful, nuanced, more or less ‘reasonable’ human beings in charge?

No way!!!

‘Merkah’, today, it appears would rather learn the ‘hard’ way or NOT AT ALL.

Happy daze are here again …

There were a lot of rumor floating around — most of them utterly unsubstantiated and likely specious and designed to boost various reputations outside of the candidates themselves on both sides of the primary — but the bottom line was that the communication was crap between the top levels, and in all honesty from what I’ve heard a lot of the blame on that goes to Obama’s team for essentially ignoring a couple of outstretched hands from higher level folks on the Clinton team. Which, after a hard fought primary and the level of exhaustion both sides had at that point, is to be expected, I think — but it was detrimental to hitting the ground running out of the gate.

In any case, in this it’s likely my granny’s old saying of “least said, soonest mended” is the best course of action. And if the Obamas and Clintons are at a bygones place (and if Hillary and Michelle’s really good interaction in Denver is any indication, they are), then who are any of us to keep pushing the BS?