Fairly Unbalanced

I was never a big believer in Mr. Hopey Changey. Roll back the tapes, I was actually a Biden man. Yes, I thought it was cool that Americans could temporarily get over the skin color thing but the guy seemed a bit too erudite and polished and lacked the tenacity and street fighting skills of some of our more successful presidents. Now that Mr. Obama has been unmasked as not only a man without principals but also a man who can so easily lie and reverse directions mid course (e.g. The Ogden memo) I have sort of given up on him. Press Secretaries like to say that our leader's views are evolving at times like this. Okay, whatever. You sort of have to trust your inner bullshit detector in these sorts of situations. Be that as it may, it was all looking so damned promising and the guy just fumbled so miserably, constantly out maneuvered, and finally morphing into his current role as equivocator in chief and all around d-i-n-o. Some day people are going to look back at Senator Ron Wyden's warning on Obama Administration era abuses of privacy and civil liberty and ask themselves how they ever drank the kool-aid? Marxist, shit. Damn right there was a class war and last I checked the rich guys had won.

Anyway, as my loyal readers know, I am now off of politics. My favored candidate in the next election, Republican Gary Johnson, the man who wants to legalize and also brought New Mexico out of the fiscal red, doesn't have a snowball's chance of getting any traction in the next go round. So all of my interest at the moment is strictly academic, sort of like checking out that bad accident on the freeway, terribly ugly but I have to take one little peek.

If I am a Democratic strategist, I am sending all of my love to Michelle Bachmann, she of the psychotic thorazine stare. Michelle is soaring in the polls and that is good. She needs to be the candidate. It will be good for the country, it will be good for the blog. Let her run with the hook. Don't set it and don't challenge her. Do not be too quick to question her when she recounts her conversations with the almighty or regales you with stories of her closeted fruitcake husband banishing homosexuality from gay men in the name of Jesus. She has a right to her crazy opinion and it plays really well in the heartland. You will all have time to sharpen your knives later but I think that you really need this woman to win. And she will present an interesting litmus test for our "moderate" republican" friends - is their hatred for Obama so complete that they can actually pull the lever for a woman this deranged and whacked out?

And if the American public are stupid enough to elect her, with her record and outlandish past statements, I will just say, you deserve her America and good luck.

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News Corp is in serious hot water of course in England and humpty dumpty might be about to pitch himself right off the wall. Extorting members of Scotland Yard, erasing murder victims personal phone messages, lying to Parliament, digging up and dishing dirt on the Prime Minister's very sick son, the evil hubris is just unbelievable and despicable. Of course it is a United States corporation and we have some pretty serious laws against bribery and extortion. Rupert's U.S. holdings include Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, 20th Century Fox, Myspace and a host of other major media concerns and purportedly a fair amount of politicians. Will be interesting to see what kind of play the scandal gets in the Journal. I'm betting not a lot. Only a matter of time before the editorials role out minimizing the affair and defending the behavior. The question that begs to be asked is what the fauxites have been doing on this side of the pond? Some allegations that the phone hacking extended to 9/11 families but are as yet just unfounded allegations. But if it can be proven that he did try to bribe a New York City police officer, I would come down on him like a ton of bricks. Word is that Murdoch is hiring big legal guns and already settling some of the hacking claims. Maybe he can buy his way out...