Finially Some Hard Balls
Obscene pun intended!
I’ve been saying I would take McCain over Hillary for a while now, but I just may write in Gen. McPeak over both of them. Here’s a quote from the Obama military adviser as printed by Peter Wallsten in the Feb 01, 2008 issue of the Los Angles Times:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York argued that the party’s eventual nominee would need sufficient “gravitas” to persuade American voters that he or she can be a strong leader while arguing for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
The advisor, retired Gen. Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak, said in a telephone interview that Obama has “real gravitas, not artificially created, focus-grouped, poll-directed, rehearsed gravitas.”
He also said Obama “doesn’t go on television and have crying fits; he isn’t discovering his voice at the age of 60″ — references to Clinton’s much-publicized show of emotion during the New Hampshire primary campaign and her speech after winning the contest in which she declared that she had “found my voice.”
Love this guy! Put him behind a desk on CNN. With all of Hillary’s bullshitting and whoring (this isn’t sexist, check a dictionary, I’m calling her unscrupulous - that’s right, unscrupulous) it’s about time someone called her on it. As quickly as I would let Bill Clinton use me in any way he’d want, I don’t see any difference between Hillary and Romney (scratch that, Romney has more experience) Huckabee except the colors of the flags they wave.
And this is exactly what we need to get away from! This blind flag waving, these games of who can be most crazy, nut job, abandoning reason Democrat or Republican. There are policy differences, fine, we all get it. But when the Legislature has spent so much time in near deadlock, we need a Commander in Chief who will bring people together.
Oh, and Hillary’s campeign’s reaction to McPeak’s later retracted comments?
A Clinton spokesman, Phil Singer, called it “unfortunate” that McPeak’s retraction “was motivated out of concern about the political impact of his words as opposed to the fact that they were simply offensive.”
Please! Those comments weren’t offensive in the slightest. Hillary suggesting she’s her gravitas was better than Obama’s was offensive (by the way, by now you should know that “gravitas” is political jargon for “balls”). Oh, and the following may be offensive (just so readers can build a baseline)
The ONLY thing Hillary Clinton has going for her is that her husband was President (and a great President at that) and the MANY focus groups and advisers who are crafting her more like a Ms. America than a legitimate political candidate with a solid political platform.
My apologies to current Ms. America Kirsten Haglund, I know you don’t sell out to big business like Hillary has done and your singing and commitment toward raising awarness of eating disorders are an inspiration to us all. If you weren’t only 19, I’d vote you Ms. President of America ^_^ .