The Politics Of Tragedy
While details may still be murky, a muddled picture at least is available.
BREAKING:Hostage Standoff Comes To An End
Not long after news reports were finally breaking the captor’s identity, it has been learned that Police just took into custody, Lee Eisenberg. Eisenberg, who apparently suffered from mental health problems and whose marriage was apparently in trouble, strapped what appeared to be a bomb on his chest and walked into a Clinton Campaign office in Rochester New Hampshire.
He apparently wanted to discuss with Mrs. Clinton the state of mental healthcare in this country, and reportedly believed he was the target of a government conspiracy. Thankfully, this episode has come to an end without any reported deaths or injuries.
Breaking: Clinton Campaign Workers Being Held Hostage in NH (UPDATED)
Right now, two volunteers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign are experiencing one of the worst nightmares one could imagine in Rochest New Hampshire.
Announcement: Education Debate
I am both pleased and terrified to make an announcement here at Comments From Left Field. I’ve made solutions a kind of theme now and then in recent writings, and I wanted to take that to the next level, and my friend Mark from Publius Endures is going to help me with that.
Bush Battles Budget
Talk about Alice in Wonderland. Like the Red Queen’s, BushLogic tends to circle back on itself to become its own opposite, canceling itself out as well as violating all its previous positions. An item in today’s WaPo illustrates just how far down the rabbit hole we’ve fallen under the Shrub.
El Supremo has decided to fight the Democratic budget bill - you know, the one tied to troop withdrawals - by whining about how his not signing it will hurt (are you ready for this?) the profits of the military-industrial complex.
Obama As A Terrorist (again)
God corrupts politics and politics corrupt God.
This is the fundamental reason why I am so terribly opposed to theological influences in government and politics. It is not because I’m anti-Christian, or anti-Muslim, or against most religions, but instead because if our history throughout the world has proven anything, it is that religion hardly ever provides a positive influence to the way people are governed.
Clinton News Network: The Fall Of CNN’s Credibility
I missed last night’s Republican debate, a pity considering that by most accounts it apparently was a slobberknocker with the candidatesstepping up their attacks. Rudy apparently got grilled on the creative accounting employed during his affair with his now wife, Fred used his little youtube spot to launch an attack ad, and John McCain opted to make Ron Paul his whipping boy, all of this and more signifying that it’s the end of the season, and you can’t hold anything back.
If a Republican Wins, Head for Tierra del Fuego
I didn’t watch the GOP debate last night because there’s no point to it. They’ve established a pattern and it’s always the same: 2 or 3 of them get into a vicious fight over who’s most like a dictator, who’d violate the Constitution the most often, who’d break more laws, who’d give the oligarchs the most tax breaks, who’d torture more innocent people, who’d invade the most Muslim countries, and/or who’d make sure a maximum number of the poor would starve, freeze to death, and end up homeless, roaming the streets.
And just to be sure we’re clear, those aren’t attacks against their opponents. They’re boasting.
Romney vs. Huckabee
When we first hopped on this crazy whirly-gig of a campaign contest, I think on the GOP side of the fence the big story was supposed to be Giuliani vs. McCain. McCain who was supposed to be the presumptive candidate after not making a big fuss after Bush sunk his campaign in a rather unsavory manner, while Giuliani’s post 9/11 prominence had propelled him onto the national stage.
But as we near the first votes to be cast in the Republican primary, the true narrative is looking to be anything but Giuliani and McCain.
Just One Question, Mr. President: Where Were You?
There have been no overt references to it, but you would have to be a very casual observer of Hillary Clinton’s campaign to not know that one of the underlying premises behind the argument to vote for her is that such a vote would return America to the august days of Mr. Clinton’s presidency.
Intentional or not, as Mrs. Clinton flaunts her so-called 35 years of experience, the bulk of that includes her time as the First Lady, and serves as a constant reminder that electing Hillary Clinton as president would mean reinstating the only Democratic presidency in this country since the seventies.
The Bush Derangement Syndrome Support Group
It’s got to be tough. I don’t envy her, but I want her to know that as a fellow victim of such a tragic and viral epidemic, I’m there for her, ready to provide a shoulder to lean upon, cry upon, whatever. I didn’t think it was possible, not among someone like that, not among someone who I thought was innoculated against such a dreaded disease, but as it turns out, there is no vaccine, and anyone is capable of falling victim to Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Dennis Prager: Suffering From Talking Ass Syndrome
So we’re back to this. Kinda comforting actually.
Dennis Prager in a column for Townhall.com comes out with the time tested critique that the world doesn’t hate America, just the left. And while a small part of me might be just the slightest bit up in arms over this, a far greater portion of me takes solace in knowing there are still wingnuts out there repeating the same old talking points about how much we liberals hate America, and then using flimsy proof if any as well as addled logic to prove their point.
It’s like comfort food without all that fattening… food.
Once Upon A Time, Republicans Had Integrity
If we fail to impeach, we have condoned and left unpunished a course of conduct totally inconsistent with the reasonable expectations of the American people. We will have condoned a presidential course of conduct designed to interfere with and obstruct the very process he has sworn to uphold. We will have condoned and left unpunished an abuse of power totally without justification. In short, a power appears to have corrupted. It is a sad period in American history, but I cannot condone what I have heard, I cannot excuse it and I cannot and will not stand still for it.
~ Rep M Caldwell Butler, R-VA, in 1974 on the impeachment of Richard Nixon
Hard to imagine a Republican voting for his country over his party these days.
Mitt Romney: No Muslims In The Cabinet
Okay, time for a hypothetical.
Let’s imagine a presidential candidate. He’s doing well in the primaries, not leading the pack, exactly, but coming up second in nationwide polling as well as having some very strong numbers in key early voting states. This he has managed to accomplish despite being a member of a minority religion that often suffers from a mischaracterization of worship among its moderate mainstream members.
Got a clear picture? Good.
Quote Of The Day: High-Brow Panty-Sniffing
The goal of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy isn’t merely to win — it’s to make the public feel that any Democrat who might attain real power is someone no decent person should associate with, someone we should cross the street to avoid, someone whose intentions and goals are dangerous — if not unspeakable. That’s the message being spread right now about Hillary Clinton in these linked communications. She is a lesbian agent of terror. Her vagina will get us all killed.
- Steve M., nailing it.
What Was That About Being Inevitable?
As a kind of update to this post I wrote earlier, a Zoby poll released today delivers yet another crippling blow to the aura of inevitability surrounding the Clinton campaign.
End Game
“I’m gaming for November.”
That is what Bush said about Iraq just a few months ago, and unlike virtually everything else that he has attempted in Iraq, at least this one single thing has gone off like clockwork.