If they get divorced, the following sentence can finally be stated truthfully:

IT’S ALL BILL CLINTON’S FAULT

What Ms_Joanne just said, 2 Mil. Your posts have always been pertinent, current & thought provoking. Thank you for your time here; we’ll eagerly await your return.

I hope all is well in your world and eagerly await your return. You are one of my favorite posters and you will be missed.

FALLUJAH, May 2 (IPS) – Amidst unemployment and impoverishment, Iraqis now face a cutting down of their monthly food ration. During more than five years of U.S.-occupation, the situation has become even worse. The rationing system has been crumbling under poor management and corruption.

And in comparison stands “Disney Baghdad” and the “Zone of Enterprise” in the Green Zone. U.S. priorities on full display.

Hey, at least she’s staying out of tanks…

Haha. Yes. True. Although i can’t help but feel she could use that image to carry her loving and peaceful message of ‘obliteration’.

At least neither candidate has resorted to windsailing yet either.

~ A

Probably the conspiracy theorist nut in me, but I think, for the GOP, there’s greater value in NOT starting the 9/11 trials while Bush is in office, while NO Republican is President. If they wait till 2008 where (more than likely) Obama or Clinton will be President, they can first shame the Administration into starting the trials: “Well, if they think they can do a better job on the war of terror than the GOP, WHY are these prisoners still awaiting a trial?” They will never mention the fact that these “prisoners” were “terrorists” when Bush was in office, and they never got trials then. After the trials begin, and all those then-terrorists-now-prisoners have to be let go because there’s ZERO evidence against them – they were picked up because they were brown-skinned middle-eastern men – the Republcans will have the talking point that the Democrats are letting alllll these first-terrorists-then-prisoners-NOW-terrorists-all-over-again loose, they’re NOT serious about the war on terror, and if we’re struck again, it will be all Democrats’ fault.

See when you make up the rules as you go along, you can never lose.

Hey, at least she’s staying out of tanks…

Somehow, Bill still thinks this all about him, eh? How in the world did those two super-egos ever manage to stay together?

We don’t need to.

You were busted getting a hummer in the Oval Office.

You ARE an embarrassment.

Agreed, Bilbo. Not much has been made of Obama’s organizing skills. Either that, or the media is struggling with giving him any kind of credit for past deeds. I suspect he has more supers in his pocket than Hillary or anyone in her campaign discloses.

A black man is “11.8 times more likely than a white man to be sent to prison” on drug charges, and a black woman is 4.8 times more likely than a white woman,

Cue an idiot racist troll saying “Yeah, but that’s how many more blacks use drugs!”

People don’t use drugs. Drugs use people. This is the knock-on effect of the “war on drugs” which, just like the “war on terror” , has just been a boon to the private prison building industry. Soon there will be the “war on immigration” brought you by Halliburton and its subsiduaries.

Drugs, like terrorism and immigration should not be considered colour coded. These issues only become colour coded when an industry needs to villify a minority in order to scare the majority. For example how much more do you hear about Mexican immigrants committing acts of crime compared to any other nationality? It’s all fear people.

Wasn’t it hilarious to see both Clintons campaigning from the back of a pick-up truck? Don’t they realise that people can see how ridiculous they are?

And this morning’s paper has Rich Lowry quacking about what a great candidate Clinton will make because she has been pushed to the center (from way over there on the Left, right?) and because she and Bill spent all that time wooing Bubbas in Arkansas. And there is the usual reference to latte liberals — or elitists, you choose. I’m sitting here trying to imagine Rich Lowry down at the Grange or the lodge, knocking back Crown Royal and Bud. Yes, indeed, when I want to understand White Middle America, Rich Lowry is the kind of guy I would turn to.

Is what Bill said even out of the republican play book? “Vote for my wife so you don’t bruise my ego any further”?

I saw a clip this morning of Bill Clinton, campaigning yesterday in the “rural” areas (I think in Indiana but I’m not sure) and the clip showed him saying to the small crowd, “So, don’t embarrass me, vote for Hillary!”.

Wasn’t it hilarious to see both Clintons campaigning from the back of a pick-up truck? Don’t they realise that people can see how ridiculous they are?

“The Pentagon has concluded it can’t send additional troops to Afghanistan until sizable numbers of forces withdraw from Iraq,” according to a senior military official. “We might be able to generate a little bit more,” the official said. “But not 10,000 to 12,000 more troops,” which are needed. The comments are “an acknowledgment of the challenges facing the Pentagon” while fighting two wars in the Middle East.

What was that Mr. Pentagon? You need 10,000 more troops? Well, i heard a rumour that there’s around 75,000 troops in a nearby country who might be up for a change of scenery. Of course, you will have to treat them in the manner to which they have become accustomed. They will need poorly designed armour. They must be held responsible for all the PR disasters which occur in the country, no matter which of top brass is truly to blame. Last, but not least they will also require a disney-style theme park to be built in Kabul. Because if there’s one thing the troops cannot live without, it’s cotton fuc*ing candy.

I would hope all of this doesn’t lead to somee kind of post-electoral stress disorder for the Clinton’s once they lose here. Hillary is ruining her credibility to the point to where she may throw a fit and leave the Senate, or as you pointed as the worst possibility (gasp), a divorce occurring. And that would bring a lot of Republicans to joy.

I still wonder sometimes how Bill and Hillary survived that gubernatorial loss in 1980.

If Hillary grabbed the Democratic nomination by stealing it and essentially destroying the Democratic Party in the process — no, I don’t think I could vote for her. But what would be the alternative? McCain? There’s NO WAY in the world I’m going to vote for another term of Bush — I truly don’t think our country can afford that.

Perhaps a worthy independent will step up to the plate.

Another reason why I have a problem with Sheehan running as an Independent is that she will probably draw a lot of “protest votes” from Democrats. This could end up in causing that seat to go to the Republicans. I don’t like or respect Pelosi, but I don’t want to see that seat go to the Republicans. I think that both Pelosi and Reid have done so much damage to their reputations that the Democrats will replace them when the new Congress takes their seats.