Oh my
posted by bitchphd
Has it really been that long since I posted? Sorry about that. I had to take PK camping on his school camping trip at the end of last week (fun, but totally exhausting), then I spent Saturday sitting on my ass recuperating, then Sunday poor pretty Jumps died from pneumonia ($100 at the emergency vet in the morning, followed by a late-afternoon death and an evening cremation of Jumps and Brown Beauty, who expired from pneumonia, probably, a couple of weeks ago and had been waiting in the freezer ever since) and there's laundry to be done from camping (Mr. B. did that) and dishes to be done (I did those) and then bam, it's Monday and I'm carpooling kids to school and then taking PK to the dentist afterwards.
All of which means I really have jack diddly to actually *say*. Except that I'm thinking, finally, that the candidate I like best is John Edwards, because he seems to be the only one of the three Democratic probabilities who has that "vision" thing and isn't campaigning, for god's sake, by emphasizing how moderate and willing to compromise he is. That and his health-care plan, while too effing complicated by half (just like all the others--for god's sake, people, let's just go single-payer and let people buy private insurance to supplement if they want to), at least requires a public Medicare-type plan to be an option for everyone. Of course Cliton's newly announced plan looks awfully similar to Edwards's, and I would really like an excuse to prefer Hillary. But I just keep feeling that of the three major candidates, Edwards is the one who's the most likely to do something about the exploding wealth gap and the American underclass. And I'm just not sure I think Hillary's going to take on the erosion of civil liberties if she ends up being the woman in power.
I don't give a shit what the candidates' positions on Iraq are, because I haven't the first fucking clue myself what the hell we should do about that mess we created (other than *not* "stay the course") so I'm in no position to be able to decide whose ideas are the most accurate.
I'm sure Edwards' campaign will receive a huge boost from the Bitch endorsement.
All of which means I really have jack diddly to actually *say*. Except that I'm thinking, finally, that the candidate I like best is John Edwards, because he seems to be the only one of the three Democratic probabilities who has that "vision" thing and isn't campaigning, for god's sake, by emphasizing how moderate and willing to compromise he is. That and his health-care plan, while too effing complicated by half (just like all the others--for god's sake, people, let's just go single-payer and let people buy private insurance to supplement if they want to), at least requires a public Medicare-type plan to be an option for everyone. Of course Cliton's newly announced plan looks awfully similar to Edwards's, and I would really like an excuse to prefer Hillary. But I just keep feeling that of the three major candidates, Edwards is the one who's the most likely to do something about the exploding wealth gap and the American underclass. And I'm just not sure I think Hillary's going to take on the erosion of civil liberties if she ends up being the woman in power.
I don't give a shit what the candidates' positions on Iraq are, because I haven't the first fucking clue myself what the hell we should do about that mess we created (other than *not* "stay the course") so I'm in no position to be able to decide whose ideas are the most accurate.
I'm sure Edwards' campaign will receive a huge boost from the Bitch endorsement.
Labels: politics
Posted at 6:25 PM
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