Bloggin’
There are times when blogging is very easy. It seems that everything that you type is clear and precise at least that’s the way that it feels when I type it. Tonight hasn’t been one of those nights. I looked at dozens of stories before I thought anything was worth blogging about. I know that everyone was focused on Hillary and Barack fighting over something that Robert Novak said. Robert Novak who has a double secret source. Robert “I outed Valerie Plame” Novak. Why does he have a job? Are writers that hard to come by? For my money, I would prefer that you left his spot in the newspaper blank rather that print anything that he has to say.
Another article in the NYT focuses on experience. The voters in Iowa are now focusing on the economy and experience. What does experience mean? There are only 3 or 4 people in the world who have US presidential experience - Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Alexander Haig. That’s it. Sitting next to the president isn’t good enough. If it was we should get Monica to run. President Kennedy said that there was no job in the world adequate enough to prepare you to be president.
New Iowa poll (what has there been now about a billion Iowa and New Hampshire polls) by ABC News - Washington Post shows Obama leading Hillary with John Edwards a close third. Interestingly Bill Richardson is in a strong fourth. (View the poll here) Independents will be very important in this race. I’m not sure that “normal” polling includes them. Look for the Tom Bradley effect to make polling results almost meaningless unless exit polling is done the day of the race.
We are being played like an old banjo. Gas prices. The oil companies are shaking us down until we begin to complain. When there are a couple stories in the media about high fuel prices, the gas prices magically fall. A few months pass then the oil prices raise again but they raise just past the price they were at before. More outcry then the prices fall back. All the while, energy CEO’s and their boards are raking in money by the truckload.
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