Hillary, Enough Already...

I can't stomach this any longer, the continued saga of Hillary Clinton's attempt to garner the Democratic nomination at the risk of bringing down her Party. I mean, Mrs. Clinton, what are trying to accomplish? With the defections of five former members of her husbands Cabinet: Bill Daley, Norman Mineta, Federico Pena, Robert Reich and Bill Richardson, you continually loose slippage and putting henchmen such as gargoyle looking James Carville and Gerry Ferraro who are using code language to incite racist politics, doesn't exactly help your case with the remaining 300 uncommitted super delegates. The say anything do anything at all cost tactics could backfire. Remember Willie Horton? Michael Dukakis does. George H.W. Bush's election team of the late Lee Atwater and Roger Ales (now President of Fox News) used the Horton fiasco against Mr. Dukakis, the democratic nominee back in 88' with results the democratic party does not want to remember. Mrs. Clinton, don't hortonize the future of your party, Barack Obama.

We need ALAN KEYES! But ..Why?

C'mon. Are you serious? This guy's a joke. He's been running since 96'. He has no economic solutions and only trumps his moral aptitude. Give me a break.

Why am I saying this? OK, for those of you with short memories, Mr. Keyes is the guy the Republicans recruited, a resident of Maryland at the time, to run in Illinois against Barack Obama for the US Senate back in 2006. He lost then and perceived by many as a loser now. Of course, certainly not this writer. Worse yet, the Republicans refuses to even acknowledge him as a Presidential primary candidate, garnering less than 5 percent in the polls. Mr. Keyes, unfortunately, was used as a pawn, a last minute stint to neutralize the Illinois black vote.

Mr. Keyes, since most of your dialog regularly purports morality, you may consider campaigning to serve on the board of Oral Roberts University. Maybe..... lend some moral direction to its former president, Richard Roberts.

80th Texas Legislature Begins with Less Hoopla

While awaiting this past Tuesday to see who would be selected speaker of Texas' 80 th legislature, I find it quite interesting to see what would happen to those who publicly opposed Tom Craddick , Speaker of the House and former lieutenant of the befallen former Minority Whip of the U.S. congress, Tom Delay. The question is, exactly how far down in the pecking order they actually sink, ala fellow republicans Rep. Brian McCall and Rep. Jim Pitts. But, I must admit, I wanted to see if Mr. Craddick's own party loyalists would actually go forward with their public comments in saying that they would not only challenge Mr. Craddick's tenure, but that they had commitments in writing to even win the speakership. They even had the gaul to release the list of those that supported them. My ole rural professor once told me in a democracy, it's healthy to have a festive dialog with your foes. But, in this case, no one seemed to be up to the challenge, except those who knew that they had no chance of winning, HELLO, Rep. Senfronia Thompson. No pun intended. But, Ms. Thompson, there is something to said about your gutsy bravado. Reps. Thompson, McCall and Pitts, you are likely to be reassigned to unwanted sub-subcommittees. As for Rep. Thompson, you at least stood up for what you believed in before gracefully bowing out and regardless of whether you actually meant it or simply jockeying for chief spokesman for the democratic house minority, is that the 63 year old three term west Texan Craddick never forgets whose perceived as a challenge. They'll pay a heavy, heavy political price. And for all you right leaning Clintonian democrats that supported Mr. Craddick, a few top names didn't even win their primaries; Rep. Ron Wilson and Rep. Al Edwards, two of some of the longest serving democrats in the Texas state house, both black, coincidentally.