Raging Cynic

It may be the 4am talking, but this editorial from The LA Times almost brings a hopeful glimmer to my eye. If I didn’t have scotch and testis I might cry (okay. . . that might have been sexist, but only if you want to argue with the biological effects of testosterone and think crying when filled with hope and the possibility of national betterment is a bad thing, and I don’t).

The U.S. senator from Illinois distinguishes himself as an inspiring leader who cuts through typical internecine campaign bickering and appeals to Americans long weary of divisive and destructive politics.

In the language of metaphor, Clinton is an essay, solid and reasoned; Obama is a poem, lyric and filled with possibility. Clinton would be a valuable and competent executive, but Obama matches her in substance and adds something that the nation has been missing far too long — a sense of aspiration.

[ please PLEASE read this full article]

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.”

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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 ^_^ .

Pause for a minute. Think about a computer the size of a passport. Not a PDA, not one of those weak portable media players, a computer. Bright hi-res screen, faster than your laptop, full wifi, bluetooth, camera for video conferencing, connecting wirelessly with an LCD projector for powerpoint presentations or movies or whatever. Like a laptop but faster, brighter, sleeker, more durable, flexible (like a passport - we’re thinking passports, remember?), battery life that outlasts your blackberry.

Pieces are coming together for this. Coming together fast, too.

Organic LCDs (OLCD) have been talk for a while now, wirless networks are becoming more and more present (I worry about brain cancer when I can find 20 BT signals in Stanford’s library), processors are getting smaller and faster (a horizon is about to be broken here, I’d be AMAZED if it took two years to crack), batteries are about to see it too (though I don’t like the idea of a hydrogen cell from Sony exploding, I guess it’ll be fine as long as you’re not smoking when it happens), and now solid state drives (like an SD chip or USB Flash drive) have jumped in speed.

Intel and Micron have announced a chip that’s 5x faster than what’s on the market now. You know that USB 2.0 junk? It’s faster than that. It’s bored by USB 2.0. It’s like a girlfriend that doesn’t know who the Sec Gen of the UN is (if you just thought Kofi Annan you lose the right to be disgruntled with anyone else’s political awareness, including people from Florida)

All we need now are speakers from our cell phones that don’t suck. Skull Candy, care to step up?