Sunday, May 04, 2008
Can't stay mad at Hillary.
Listening to the Jeff-Jack Day speech:
Okay, so she's just as bad as the rest on the subject of questioning enemy prisoners. Only two of the brand-R candidates were pro-American on that subject, and both of them dropped out early.
On most other matters, say 80% of important stuff, Hillary agrees with Polistra.
Most importantly, Hillary is the only remaining candidate who understands that the President is an executive who can actually do things.
Comrades McCain and Obama are good at emitting meaningless phrases, but never use a transitive verb, never promise action. Obama's sentences always begin with "we can" or "we should", which evoke a positive emotion but make no genuine promise. (I can't resist: What you mean WE, half-white man?)
McCain's sentences contain lots of negatives but no firm positives. This speech, for example, has several "We must not" and "We should not" constructions but only one "I will", namely "I will establish a goal..."
Even though nobody in the media has enough substance to ask basic and concrete questions, Hillary answers them exactly and consistently for every problem:
What will you do? How will you do it? When will you do it?
And that's why I can't stay mad. For three years I've been waiting to hear those three little words from a politician. What! How! When! ¶ 6:43 PM
Okay, so she's just as bad as the rest on the subject of questioning enemy prisoners. Only two of the brand-R candidates were pro-American on that subject, and both of them dropped out early.
On most other matters, say 80% of important stuff, Hillary agrees with Polistra.
Most importantly, Hillary is the only remaining candidate who understands that the President is an executive who can actually do things.
Comrades McCain and Obama are good at emitting meaningless phrases, but never use a transitive verb, never promise action. Obama's sentences always begin with "we can" or "we should", which evoke a positive emotion but make no genuine promise. (I can't resist: What you mean WE, half-white man?)
McCain's sentences contain lots of negatives but no firm positives. This speech, for example, has several "We must not" and "We should not" constructions but only one "I will", namely "I will establish a goal..."
Even though nobody in the media has enough substance to ask basic and concrete questions, Hillary answers them exactly and consistently for every problem:
What will you do? How will you do it? When will you do it?
And that's why I can't stay mad. For three years I've been waiting to hear those three little words from a politician. What! How! When! ¶ 6:43 PM
