Good day for the netroots and the country

While the Republicans were playing games with cloture - the netroots [US] were busy calling our senators and asking them to not support mr 28%'s telephone company immunity bill.

WE won...for now...Don't you find it sort of ironic that me unpopular says he will veto a bill that does not contain immunity for the telephone companies that spied on us? He says this bill is important for USA security yet he also says he will veto it if the immunity is not in the bill.. Kinda makes you wonder what or where his priorities are???

And yesterday Carolyn Kennedy said she is supporting Obama. Her statement was eloquent - reminded me of her father. Every time I hear Obama speak I recall that feeling of love for my country and hope for a future that we had back when JFK was president and then again when RFK was running. or when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke..

How I wish we had a president that was eloquent and filled with hope and promise...but I tuned on the TV to see if mr smirking chimp would sound any different for his last SOTU [YEA - his last!!] But I started screaming at the stupid smirking winking blob in front of me - I turned off the TV - it's better for my mental health to not watch this moron/psychopath/dry drunk/mad king george anymore than possible.


I console myself by saying next year we will have an articulate president...AHHHHHHHHHHH that time can't come soon enough for the world.....

H.L. Mencken got it right - sadly right

I saw this before but it bears repeating:

From McClatchy news

Commentary: Bush fulfills H.L. Mencken's prophecy
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers


It took just eight decades but H.L. Mencken's astute prediction on the future course of American presidential politics and the electorate's taste in candidates came true:

On July 26th, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun: "...all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily (and) adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

Full article HERE