The Cowtown Chronicles

If there was ever any doubt about Obama being the “change” president, this should erase all of it.

Rick Warren To Give Invocation At The Inauguration; John Williams, Aretha, Yo-Yo MA, I. Perlman, Too - Marc Ambinder.

You might have heard all of the gnashing of teeth by the McCain-Palin campaign over Obama’s use of a tired old metaphor.

Disregarding for a second that Republicans are the ones who YEARS ago decried the modern taste for “political correctness” and all of the immediate cries of offense that poorly chosen words would garner, I posit this question:

Which is more offensive?

Saying that the McCain-Palin campaign is more of the same and that you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig (or a pitbull?), and it’s still a pig.

OR

Ridiculing someone for making a deliberate choice to take a low-paying, extremely difficult job as a community organizer instead of the much more lucrative fast track that Obama could have taken to Federal Court clerkship or a six-figure salary at a BigLaw firm? (I have no illusions that Obama made his choice for purely altruistic reasons, just like McCain hasn’t stayed in public office for 30 years because he’s so in love with his country.)

Is using a tired old homily of the “lipstick on a pig” sort automatically sexist because the opposing campaign happens to have a woman on the ticket? Isn’t it just as sexist to ASSUME that she’d choose to wear lipstick and would automatically self-identify with a crack made in regards to lipstick?

This wisdom came to me third-hand through Jenna and one of her co-workers…

If you go to a restaurant and order Coke, they often offer Pepsi as an alternative. No one I know replies that they would rather have Draino. If you can’t have the dark fizzy soda of your choice, you go with the next best thing, not he poison you found under the sink.

Will someone please tell me upon just exactly WHAT Hillary is basing her claims of more experience?

Does traveling with Bill to foreign countries count as experience?

Being physically present in the White House while decisions were being made? Does that count as experience?

The way I see it, she doesn’t have a whole lot more experience in actual elected office than Obama. (Actually, if you DO THE MATH, Obama has nearly 10 years combined of experience in elected office at the State and Federal levels, she has only 7.)

Let’s face it: if “experience” where what TRULY mattered in this race (or any race for President), Democrats would be faced with the choice of Dodd/Biden in the primaries, or we’d already be feting President McCain. Cause that dude wins on the “experience” question hands down.

The really shitty thing is that Hillary, when she loses the Democratic nomination, is setting Obama up for this attack against him by Republicans. Practically handing him to them on a platter.

This race isn’t about “experience.” “Experience” doesn’t really matter at that level of government. Case in point: the 80-odd combined years of experience of Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney did little more than get us into the shithole we’re in now.

What we should be looking for in a candidate is judgment, coolness under fire, and vision.

Presidents don’t “do the work” of running the country or implementing their policies. They outline a vision of where they’d like to be, and then their lackeys do the legwork to make that happen.

Hillary sealed her fate regarding judgment 5 years ago when she voted to authorize unprecedented powers to the President which he then used (as everyone knew he would) to launch an unjustified, unnecessary, and unjust war against Iraq.

Hillary has also been demonstrating her inability to remain cool by her increasingly hysterical and just plain baseless attacks against Obama. So far he’s been able to win people to his side without having to attack her, but winning is so important to Hillary and her handlers that they’ll stop at nothing, including potentially weakening Obama in the general election, to do so.

She has accused him of “Rovian” tactics, when in reality it’s her (and her campaign) that is pulling the sneaky shit to try to discredit Obama. What the fuck was that shit about Farrakhan at the last debate? How much stronger of a word is “reject” than “denounce?” She go what she was looking for, though, since it’s been spinning in the news cycles now that because Obama didn’t immediately “reject” Farrakhan’s endorsement when she challenged him that now somehow he’s anti-semitic.

(Did anyone else find it rude and off-putting that she INTERRUPTED him to tell a story about how she got similar treatment during her Senate run, thus setting him up for the “reject” vs. “denounce” bullshit?)

Add all of that to her inability to shut the hell up during the debates, and her outright rudeness to both the moderators and her opponent by hogging the time, interrupting, and insisting on expounding on whatever topic she likes, regardless of the question posed, and I think that’s a pretty solid demonstration of an inability to stay cool during crisis.

Jesus. Give it up, already. If that’s how you’re going to demonstrate your “experience,” then I don’t want you anywhere near the White House.