Clearly Democratic voters at least see this as nothing but a tempest in a teapot:
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http://media.gallup.com/poll/graphs/041108DailyUpdateGraph1ghjpoiu.gif

An earth shaker always reminds me to keep my humanity in perspective.

Doc – one never knows – does one?

I’m an Obama fan so take my thoughts for whatever you think they’re worth.

The bitterness is Bill Clinton being eclipsed by the hot new thing – as Maureen Dowd puts it in her April 13 Column in the NYT.

Goodbye to all that. This tiny temblor may shake us but it will pass and leave us with the IMF warning which was largely obscured by our media focus on the choice of one adjective last Friday.

In truth, the world is shaking. IMF says revolution is coming from places where the wells are drying up and people can no longer afford to eat food produced on the rising price of oil.

I spoke to Brian Fagen about climate change last week. Large numbers of the human population live on the next crop and the next drink of clean water. When that fails – famine, exodus, death and revolution follow. That is already part of the historical record.

Which of our candidates is ready to face reality?

Can’t wait until my days are filled with work and play again, rather than shuttles to medical facilities.

That said, I could hardly be more pleased and impressed with HUHS, the Harvard University Health Services, which started being helpful last June when I had my eye incident, long before I got on the university’s health plan.

http://mikewarot.blogspot.com/2008/04/but-im-not-bitter.html

–Mike–

You’re right.

I still harbor some hope that Obama is, and will remain, less like most pols than the others. There is substance to much of his aspirational rhetoric — human and typically political though he may be.

Not that any of it will matter. The country will still prefer the weathered old shoe to the new one. (And by November, count on Obama, or Hillary, to be tarnished beyond repair — by each other, by McCain, by the media, by themselves, by their wacky self-defeating party.)

I only hope that McCain has good answers to Andrew’s first four questions. And doesn’t turn into Bush III.

I’m betting he won’t. But I’m not counting on it.

Well. What does that make Obama, who has been crusading against NAFTA (when he hasn’t been sending aides to tell the Canadians “never mind”)?

He claims to be post partisan, and we now see he’s just another pol, willing to say anything an audience wants to hear. He claims to be post-racial, but he stayed in the racist, anti-semitic, hate mongering church of Wright for 20 years – and took his kids there to “learn”.

His problem isn’t this particular misstep – it’s that he has been playing at being pure as the driven snow. The crap he’s getting is due to the dawning realization that – like most pols – he’s been playing us.

For too long my country, the wealthiest nation in a continent which is not wealthy, failed to carry out its full responsibilities to its sister Republics. We have now accepted that responsibility. In the same way those who possess wealth and power in poor nations must accept their own responsibilities. They must lead the fight for those basic reforms which alone can preserve the fabric of their societies. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Seems like we’ve become a 3rd world nation in the 46 years since that speech.
–Mike–