Obama and Clinton Pettiness Continues While We Continue Watching With Disinterest

Both Democratic Presidential candidates have submitted lists to the press detailing all their various military supporters.

Apparently this proves credibility. And it also proves that size matters?

Personally, the only thing these lists prove to me is that they’re both supported by crusty old Admirals and Generals who have nothing better to do but throw their weight around a Presidential election.

Doesn’t anyone ever give a fuck about the enlisted personnel?

Just for shits and giggles, here are the two lists of military supporters the candidates submitted to the press (i.e. names you’ve never heard before, or, names you’ll immediately forget after reading this).

Clinton:

• Vice Admiral Joseph A. Sestak
• Major General Paul Eaton
• Rear Admiral David Stone

(Who appears to have died in 1818. hmmm… )
Would the real David Stone please stand up? Linkage here, here, and here. Hat tip to Jenn!

• Brigadier General John Watkins, Jr.
• former Secretary of the Navy John Dalton

Obama:

• Brigadier General Larry Gillespie
• Major General Scott Gration
• Admiral Don Guter
• Brigadier General David “Dave” McGinnis
• General Merrill “Tony” McPeak
• Admiral John B. Nathman
• Major General Hugh Robinson
• Brigadier General James Smith
• Admiral Robert “Willie” Williamson
• Major General Ralph Wooten

I’ve attached links to the names for those officers I was able to find information about. Several of the officers I couldn’t scrap up much of anything via search engines.

They could be made fabricated names for all I know.

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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are still in the thick of it. As another set of primaries is about to occur on Tuesday, the celebs are coming out of the woodwork to let you know who they choose. Here’s a couple of the videos they’ve produced, one for each candidate, cuz you know… I’d hate to seem biased.

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In last night’s Ohio Democratic debate, Clinton puts one more spike into her campaign coffin with an attempt at rousing a chuckle from the crowd. The problem is that no one laughed.

It’s almost surreal watching her sink within the first moments of the debate. My mouth gaping at the obviousness of her misstep, Clinton needs to decide if she wants to be the victim, or the strong fighter. Trying to be both makes her sound bitchy, whiny, and petty.Until that happens, Obama doesn’t even have to try. And on the same token, neither does McCain.

Hat tip to Skitz.

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Hi, you don’t know me, but my name is Skitz M. Jones. I don’t lobby for anyone, I don’t donate money to any foundations, I’m not high on any lists, influential, or well-to-do… so you really have no reason at all to listen to me.

All of that said, for the Pete’s sake Listen To Me! Because this is fairly important. You’re all behaving in a fairly ridiculous and potentially self-defeating manor. You’ve been outsmarted by the Republicans- a party who gave us the wonderfully intellectual contribution of George W. Bush.

The maneuver to which I’m referring? Uniting. Granted Huckabee is still “running” for President, but really all he’s doing is sticking around to give McCain someone to contrast against and talk to while you all try to figure out what the hell you’re doing. The Republican party has all but announced it’s candidate in John McCain, and as a result, he looks stronger and safer than either of the Democratic candidates. Even with a scandal drudged up by the New York Times, McCain still looks better in many eyes, because the whole party backed him, defended him, and it slid off of him like water off a duck’s back.

But no, here you all are letting Obama and Hillary make veiled attacks and not-so-veiled attacks, respectively, on each other. The result? The Democratic front-runners are knocking themselves down before the Republicans even have to think about it. And don’t think the opposition isn’t noticing.

Throw Nader into the mix, and there’s a great potential for the Democrats to throw this one away before they even figure out who the candidate will be. The damage will already be done.

Now, I’ve made no secret my dislike and distrust of Hillary Clinton, anyone who runs basically on the platform of “I was married to the President, so I’ve got more experience than you do” leaves me with quite a sour taste in my mouth. Though I’m sure nothing like the taste her hubby Bill was leaving in at least a few people’s mouths. All joking aside-

Obama has been racking up nomination after nomination, and it’s really only this whole mess with delegates and super-delegates that leaves Hillary with the feeling of possible victory. It’s really time for someone to tell her to stop this foolishness, and everyone get together behind Obama. He’s clearly the choice of the majority of the country, the numbers have shown, and the less time members of his own party spend sniping at him, the better for everyone involved really.

Hillary- stop circulating stuff like this-

in an attempt to get American voters to distrust a man who you (or your staffers if you prefer) have been trying to cast as a Muslim, (one of the most frightening tag words to a portion of the American Public since “Commies” were being blacklisted in the McCarthy era) all the while pretending to be a gracious competitor at recent debates.I’m not even going to dignify this whole picture debacle with an explanation of what is going on in the photo, if anyone is curious as to why Obama was dressed like this, go here.Leaders within the Democratic party, why do you let crap like this go on? Don’t you realize it just provides more ammunition to the Republicans, by making Obama look suspect, and making Hillary look petty and cheap in her attacks?

I beg you, for the sake of at least a cleaner Presidential race, pick a candidate (preferably the one the majority of Democratic voters are actually voting for, no sense it putting off your own people, right?) and lets start the real campaign- between the red and the blue, and let the issues be the deciding factors, not who dressed like what when, and who may or may not have gone to what school or have what descendents in their past family history.

Do you think we could do that? Please?

All my best-

Skitz.

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America sits in 2008, a place craving change, empowered by messengers that claim change will come or enraged by suspected empty promises to speak out against those that use the word “change” an a mantra they feel hypnotizes and blinds the easily swayed. As the economy, the infrastructure, the media, the government, and even our own public fails us- and leaves us wanting more, we sit back hoping change for the better will come. But while we focus on our place in the world, and even tighter on our place in the country, our communities, and our jobs (or lack there of in too many cases), we must make sure we don’t become so narrow viewed as to neglect everything that happens in the rest of the world. With that in mind, here are some of the happenings from around the globe in brief (or not so brief) form.

We’ll start with a little U.S. citizen abroad news- Barack Obama has pulled out yet another wining nomination against Hillary Clinton in the Democrats abroad vote. This brings it now to 11 straight victories for Obama. Particularly of note for this vote is the fact that it was the first time online voting was permitted. “(S)aid Christine Schon Marques, the group’s international chair, in a phone interview from Geneva. “Many people overseas are very concerned about the war in Iraq; they’re looking for change.”” There’s that magic word again… Change. Also of note is the fact that Republicans do not hold global primaries. So I guess Republicans who work in Antarctica are S.O.L.

In nuclear news, forgetting the fact that we don’t want anyone (read: Iran) getting nuclear power, or the potential for nuclear weapons… oh wait… India is reaching the end of it’s deadline for a pact with the U.S. allowing the U.S. to send nuclear fuel and technology to India. Yes, that’s right, while we sit and stress over the fact that Iran wants to gain nuclear power for it’s country, here we seek to increase the potential for an already nuclear country to build more nuclear weapons. Regardless of whether the country is an ally or not- there are fears that this move could lead to a new nuclear arms race in the region- given that Pakistan and China are already nuclear as well, and the Communist parties in India fear that the move could give the U.S. too much influence in their country.

You know, mentioning nuclear armed Pakistan, a “friend” of ours who really always has our best interests at heart- it’s important to note what’s going on there given that many of the terrorists we’re fighting and searching for are training and hiding out in the mountains around their borders. The elections that took place in Pakistan have really shaken things up in that country, taking the bulk of power in parliament away from current President Pervez Musharraf’s party the PML-Q, and giving it to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the Independents, and the Pakistan People’s Party. The PPP (the party of recently assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the PML led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are now seeking a way to work together despite political differences, to reform a more democratic Pakistan, moving away from the military based rule of Musharraf- who is blamed for recent increases in violence, lack of democracy and rights, and increasing living costs with decreasing quality of living (sounding familiar?). Of course, to make matters more complicated- not only do the two new majority parties have different aims in their political agendas, they also will be unable to elect their current leaders should they seek to build a new governing body- due to the fact that they did not contest seats in the elections. The candidate from the PPP who did contest a seat- is dead. And we thought our election system was screwed.

To make matters the world over even more fun- there’s a whole new country that the governments of the world are split on whether to recognize or not, and even the people in this new country aren’t all in the boat that they want to be divided away from the country they used to be part of. Of course, I’m speaking of Kosovo recently declaring it’s independence from Serbia. So heated is the split between Serbian loyalists, and the Ethnic Albanian government and majority of the citizens, that violence is breaking out at an alarming rate. Most recently Serbs displeased with the recent independence have lashed out- destroying the U.S. embassy, as well as UN and NATO property.

Kosovo, which is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, has not been under Belgrade’s control since 1999, when NATO launched airstrikes to halt a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. A U.N. mission has governed Kosovo since, with more than 16,000 NATO troops and KFOR, a multiethnic force, policing the province. But Serbia — and Kosovo’s Serbs, who make up less than 10 percent of Kosovo’s population — refuse to give up Kosovo, a territory considered the ancient cradle of Serbs’ state and religion.
Earlier Thursday, police estimated that about 150,000 people had attended a rally in the Serbian capital. The crowd waved Serbian flags and carried signs reading ‘‘Stop USA terror.’’ One group set fire to a red-and-black Albanian flag.

Another country’s people who fear that the U.S. is having too much influence in their homeland- to really drive home their point, not only did the destroy the embassy- but “(g)roups also broke into a McDonald’s restaurant and demolished the interior.” Ronald McDonald could not be reached for comment.

I know I’m probably preaching to the choir here- but too many folks I know talk about how much they don’t care about what happens in the rest of the world because it doesn’t affect them, but if it can’t be seen how all of these events influence what is, and what will be happening in our country in the future, and by influencing our country- having effects on our own lives, then maybe I’m just wrong and have lost the thread, and should go pick up an issue of People or US Weekly, watch a little American Gladiators, and go to bed.

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