"For the record: January 3, 2008 was a pretty good day."Also for the record I did jump ships just prior to the Iowa caucus from the good ship Hillary to the boat-for-hope Obama. But, do not for a minute believe I have jumped ships from Undeclared to Democrat. Uh-uh. Nope. I am a neutral observer here. Democrats do not get anything from me yet; not assistance, not money, nothing. And Republicans are over, we all know that. Anyway, some notes:
- RPW
10 Points from the Iowa Caucus
- Barack Hussein Obama (a black man) won a U.S. presidential primary.
- Barack Hussein Obama (the young dude) won a U.S. presidential primary.
- Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton derailed (the perception and the hype).
- Johnny Reid Edwards maintains viability (the perception and the hype).
- Rodolph William Louis Giuliani derailed (the reality and the hype).
- Willard Mitt Romney flushed a boat-load of cash into Iowa sewers.
- Michael Dale Huckabee? C'mon! [note: WDW's "stone cold lock" to win presidency]
- No one else remains viable. Not Ronald Ernest Paul. Not Dennis John Kucinich.
- The world has taken note of this first U.S. presidential primary.
- The hope for change has trumped the most experience.
"Change is so pervasive in our lives that it almost defeats description and analysis. One can think of it in a very general way as alteration. But alteration in a thing raises subtle problems. One of the most perplexing is the problem of the consistency of change: how can one thing have incompatible properties and yet remain the same thing? Some have held that change is a consistent process, and rendered so by the existence of time. Others have held that the only way to make sense of change is as an inconsistency.""Prouder, Stronger, Better" - 1984 Reagan Campaign Ad, Edit
- Stanford (open source) Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"DemographicallyIt's morning again in America. Today more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history. With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than at any time in the past four years. This afternoon 6,500 young men and women will be married, and with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future.It's morning again in America, and under the leadership of PresidentReaganObama, our countryiswill be prouder and stronger and better. Why would we ever want to return to where we wereless than four short years ago-- ever?"
It's either cool that there is a viable presidential candidate that is very much like me. Age, racial mix-up, and intelligence level. OR, it's uncool that I am now old and typical of someone who could be president. I'll stick with cool; tripgrass cool, remember?
I have never had much in common with any president or viable candidate prior. Perhaps Carter. We were both born in October (but I've never been in the navy or formally studied nuclear physics and reactor technology). So this brings me back to Barry Hussein. Sure there are serious flaws. Flaws in personality -- flaws in policy. But, hey, I also have flaws...so, dunno.
On to New Hampshire. Onward to the future.
[Note: Not saying that I Heart Huckabee will win or anything (no "stone cold lock" in my book, Doug), but I'm reminding people that I've been saying for two years that Huck was the guy that would re-stimulate the GOP. I even went as far as saying that he'd get "big." I've never posted it, but some of you may remember I said it. I watched this dude on C-SPAN back in the day and was like, "woah, this might be the guy!" Alls I'm saying is, I totally called it.]
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