I read a blog post this morning, containing the usual criticisms to Obama supporters, with one new wrinkle (Obama supporters are bad people for trying to 'spin' Hillary's assassination comment into something negative...Will we stop at nothing??!?!??!?!?

I thought it was a little self-serving, and I went to say so, but the comment option had been removed.

One way conduit. Shut up and take it.

I thought, How cool is that? Why should the rest of you...

babylonDon

Edit: I screwed this up, and reposted without removing this one so here's Neil Young playing 'All Along the Watchtower'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_tJnj2j5kI

babylonDon

If you can credit the Clintons with nothing, at least imagine what America would like without those eight years. They held the Right, more or less at bay for two terms. No mean feat, in this era of legions of politically active, yet politically ignorant Right wing radio listeners, euphemism as weaponry, and outright political sabotage.

And that's just the stuff that's out in the open. These are the weapons they don't even bother to cloak anymore. The things that are still worthy of...

babylonDon

Clinton was unexpected, by Repubs and Dems alike. Certainly by me. I knew little about him, until he had all but sewn up the nomination. In the Ill. primaries, I think I voted for Paul Simon, a gutsy liberal, a great speaker and trustworthy man, of unfortunate looks, unelectable in the era of the blow-dried and photo-op accessible.

Clinton had charisma, He had charm, he had a twinkle in his eye, and a quick look of grave concern, when needed. He spoke of hope, and he was a Rhodes...

babylonDon

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.-Fredrich Nietzsche

The 1950's. Chuck Berry, Drive-ins, Dwight Eisenhower, Howdy Doody, and the start of the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign....

No strike that. No one will pay attention to this if you're going to behave like that. But it's been a very long campaign, eh?

In the early 90's, after more...

babylonDon