Susan's Blog
July 02, 2008 by susan Cousin Susan -- who isn't really my cousin, but is my best pal's cousin, ergo goes by that moniker -- recently wrote to the CLB about bashing Hillary vs. recruiting her supporters to help win this election. Barb's busy battling the cancer demon, and I'm busy hosting (healthy, thanks be) children and grandchildren. So voila, a guest posting by Cousin Susan, formerly of Topanga Canyon, CA, now back home in Des Moines, Iowa.
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I've much enjoyed periodically reading your comments, most of which I find help my wandering mind organize itself at least briefly.
Back here in soggy Iowa, I've been talking with my friends who were early Obama supporters about a woman to woman campaign to bring Hill's Gals back to the Dems.
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July 01, 2008 by susan Booyah for Gen. Wesley Clark for calling the emperor naked. Or the POW not presidential. I've been having this same thought about McCain for a long time, but banished it to the basement for its unseemly lack of gratitude, if not downright un-American way of thinking.
Not that McCain didn't endure a horrific imprisonment and not that it was his fault that he was shot down. But I just didn't see how a miserable time in a Viet Cong preison makes him God's anointed leader. And placing my hand firmly on the third rail, I'd rather have the Navy pilot who didn't get shot down as my leader, not the one who did
But war heros are sacrosanct, right? Well, yes and no. Not if they're Democrats. More.
June 22, 2008 by susan As the resident apologist for the mushy middle and the MSM, I remember saying in the nascent days of the invasion of Iraq that it wasn't entirely about oil.
I was unwavering in my opposition to the invasion, and knew that BushCo was purposely misleading the country, but I thought it was too simplistic to think that our leaders would send young Americans to Iraq to die for oil. "They may have no conscience," I'd say, "and they're liars, but they're not stupid."
Well, I was wrong. It was about oil. And they are stupid. But I was right about the other stuff like the lies. And the lack of conscience. Toss in corrupt and greedy while you're at it. And where's Don Rumsfeld these days anyway?
(I dunno, but read on anyway.)
June 15, 2008 by susan Not just another pretty face.
I'm probably the only one around the Clothesline who's going to shed a tear for Tim Russert. And it seems to be my besmirched little pew here at the CLB to defend the MSM. (See comments on the previous post.)
So, first Tim, then the MSM.
On Sundays, my husband goes to church and I go to the morning talkies. I generally surf between Stephanopoulos and Russert, depending on what guest is appearing where, or which host has pissed me off more. For awhile I abandoned Russert due to his steady stream of Republicans -- a girl can only take so much of Lindsey Graham and John McCain -- and the insufferable Mary Matalin and James Carville punditing afterwards. Then Steph lost me, probably for good, thanks to his inane questions during the final so-called Clinton-Obama debate. When that's over, I read the NYTimes, but more on that later.
June 07, 2008 by susan Al Franken! Rumor on the floor is that Al won on the first ballot. Needed 60% to win, I'm hearing he got about 61%.
It's not confirmed, but Jack's floor team can be seen hang-dogged and crying, and Al's floor team is looking jubilant and slapping high fives. More to come.
June 07, 2008 by susan Social activist Randi Reitan writes:
"I keep going to the Clothesline to see a post on Al Franken ..... what are you thinking today on the whole sad mess? If ever there was a day to hang out the linens today is the day."
Well, yes it is. It's Friday, June 6. Tomorrow we, delegates to the DFL convention in Rochester, MN (yes, home of Mayo clinic) will endorse a candidate to take on Republican and Bush sycophant, Norm Coleman in the general election.
For those of you not immersed in MN politics, playboy Norm won Paul Wellstone's seat after Paul and Sheila Wellstone and their daughter and colleagues died in a fiery plane crash just weeks before the election in 2002.
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June 03, 2008 by susan Okay, I wasn't as prescient as I thought when, late last night, I declared that Obama would clinch the nomination today and that the rally in St. Paul (yep, Barb and I will be there) would be his victory celebration -- his first appearance as the official presumptive nominee. I hadn't been watching TV or reading blogs, and I didn't know that everyone else was saying the same thing. Thought it was just my viscera picking up the movement below the surface.
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June 02, 2008 by susan Yesterday I flew home from Michigan, spending time in two airports. In each one, the ubiquitous TV's were tuned to Fox "news" and Hillay's jubilant victory speech in Puerto Rico. There was no sound, but from the captioning you'd think that Hillary was Fox's kind of gal, and that Barack Hussein Obama (yes, they really do call him that on Fox) was the anti-christ. "In every category, every demographic, even those concerned about the war, people overwhelmingly favored Hillary Clinton to Barack Hussein Obama, proving her point that she is indeed the more populist and likable candidate to take on front-runner John McCain . . . "
And, from Hillary's demeanor and words, you'd think she'd just won the presidency, if not supreme commander of the universe. (I've won more votes than anyone in history . . .) What she won was a love-fest in Puerto Rico, where they still adore Bill. And it's a perfect fantasy island sort of victory, because Puerto Rico may be Hillary's state of denial, but it's not a state.
Nixon parallel coming up.
May 31, 2008 by susan As I write, the DNC rules committee is deciding what to do with the Michigan and Florida delegates. How could it have come to this? I don't mean that they'll hand down a bogus decision, a la supreme court in 2000, because I think they are all smart enough to know that they have to present a nicely trussed bird, stuffed with just enough delegates to keep everyone happy. (Except Hillary, and the woman in this photo.)
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