warner in the WSJ today…

“Can Warner Show Democrats a Path?”
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110064794870576041,00.html

I announced a moderation policy some months ago on this Weblog. Alternative perspectives on the same issue are welcome. A comment that talks about some other issue, that attacks a person, that says “the original posting sucks” or “the original posting is great”, are all not very interesting for other readers. So they get nuked! (That’s assuming I have time and energy to moderate, which I usually don’t.)

Philip isn’t big enough that comments like “the rest of the world knows better” even apply. Maybe one out of 50,000 people have ever heard of him. Also, I think he is a decent guy. What exactly has he said that makes you think differently?

But I believe he will censor you for calling him Phil. That really seems to set him off.

I have noticed that Phil censors a lot of the comments- especially ones that may not paint him in a nice light. You may think you are a decent guy Phil, but the rest of the world knows better, except those that you are fooling at the moment.

Speaking of Mark Warner, it’s getting big enough to be in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48211-2004Nov13.html (Gee, I hope Dr Phil doesn’t censor this post!)

About Governor Warner — he’s done a better job than any politician I can remember, ever, in bringing Virginia through a very challenging fiscal crisis, and cleaning up the wreckage left by previous administrations. No doubt the man is competent.

Ok, I presume you are joking. Reasoning in the same way, the majority in Italy elected Berlusconi (the richer Italian, a successful business man). Now, Berlusconi has demonstrated that in fact people were right: he and his companies are becoming more and more wealthier! He is changing laws in order to avoid trials and to let his companies to grow faster. After all, he is spending his days in the same way he did before elections: doing business for himself.

Robert Rubin doesn’t make a good candidate because he will only appeal to Wall Street, not Main Street. Also he raped the Treasury to bail out his friends who had investments in Mexico by propping up the peso.

I think that the current tone of politics today requires that somebody has to be groomed for the role from early adulthood (at the very least). That leaves a 30 year lag-time between the start of grooming and electability. I would be willing to believe that most of the currently ripe democratic prospects have already made fatefull decisions to base their careers on government/public service instead of corporate advancement.

I do not believe that many successful businessmen, that had not spent the last 30 years preparing for public office, would be willing to deal with the public exposure that goes along with the job.

Of course there are exceptions:
Dick Cheney, life spent in government service, crowned with ceo-ship late in career.

George W Bush (admittedly groomed for the job for 3 generations) – made acceptable for public consumption with last-minute (politically speaking) conversion to christianity.

Why is it that our society is ever-so-impressed with the Trumps and oh-so neglectful of the (insert name of forgotten public servant)s of the world…

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID THE F’ING SECOND THEY CHOSE EDWARDS!!! DEMOCRATS ARE FREAKING IDIOTS!!!