Why I hate politics ...

Mary at Pacific Views writes about Why I hate this primary campaign.

My disquiet --I don't really hate politics, after all life is politics-- is more all encompassing. A call from the Clinton campaign allowed me to vent my frustration about both campaigns --not that I expect my words to make any difference-- and I gave them some money. When a call came in from the Obama campaign I wanted to talk about the same thing. The Obama person on the phone didn't listen and, in fact, tried to talk over me with her prepared talking points. I hung up. And when the DNC calls I just tell them that I no longer give money to any organizations other than individual candidates campaigns.

Until the DNC even tries to fix this screwed up and undemocratic primary mishmash I will not give them any money. I resent the fact that all the candidates campaigning in the primary do not get voted on by all Democrats (and only Democrats). Keep all non-Democrats away from Democratic primaries.

There, I feel better.

Added: On second thought, I do hate that sleazy organized politics is part of life.

Yesterday's QUOTES ...

... The fiscal problem the US faces is medicare, and medical care more broadly, not social security.

... The Chinese company included crude heparin squeezed from the intestines of slaughtered pigs processed in filthy kitchen factories that would make a backwoods meth lab look like an Intel clean room.

And John McCain could very well get away with it. He and the GOP plan to scare independent voters, Reagan Democrats, and the GOP sheeple one more time with fears of Al Qaeda streaming from Iraq to Kansas ...

Here’s the dirt on Arizona power plants, March 17th, 2008 by Ed Taylor

Arizona power plants are getting dirtier rather than cleaner, at least when it comes to pollution tied to global warming, according to the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project.

Arizona had one of the biggest one-year increases in greenhouse gas emissions from 2006 to 2007, the organization said Monday.The top 10 states in increases of carbon dioxide were Arizona, Georgia, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Virginia and North Carolina.



That’s a lot of things for such a smart man [Obama] not to know. If I didn’t know any better, I might think he’d say anything to win.

Obama and his supporters are deliberately spreading misinformation regarding the timing sanctions against both Florida and Michigan. Much of the media is parroting their press releases without referring to the actual DNC Delegate Selection Rules for 2008. [...] Of the recent solutions being proposed the most disturbing and offensive is that the delegates of these States be split 50/50. Although political operatives get their VIP passes to the convention, the will of the voters is totally ignored. A 50/50 split would be assigning votes to Florida and Michigan Democrats. Do not refer to it as anything less.
... Obama partisan Kos of dailyKos praised an arbitrary assignment of votes to Florida voters. Of course, by now it's clear, fairness only applies to what Kos wants. The rest of us voters don't count. Sounds very Republican to me ...

Sorry, but this is sounding a lot more like Bush & Gore ...

What the DNC and the Obama campaign are trying to do is disenfranchise Florida and Michigan primary voters.

I do not assume that Clinton wouldn't try the same. However it is NOT Clinton but Obama and the DNC, this time, who are pushing a corrupt deal.

Just explain to me how all this is not just what those Supreme Court Jesters did when they selected Bush as President ignoring the votes of the citizens of the Unites States.