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My Presidential Dream Ticket

My hunch on who the Democrats nominate for the 2008 Presidential candidate will be Hillary Clinton with a running mate of either Obama or Edwards. Who is your dream ticket for the Presidency? Or do you care?

I am not a big supporter of Clinton’s although I did vote for her husband in the ’92 and ’96 Presidential elections. I’m not going to vote for Hillary for the main reason because I don’t trust her excessively ambitious style. It’s alright to have ideals and to strive for manifesting them, but not at the expense of losing sight of the bigger picture, which is the one principle that most all candidates seem to lack. Do they ever ask, “What is this for” before they push their agendas down our throats?
So far, Hillary’s stump speeches in the debates have proven that she can hold her ground sometimes better than the other candidates, but she does so sounding like a bellicose macho-woman. Especially, when she addresses issues like war. How she’s all for ordering immediate air-strikes when the bad guys do something wrong. Look where that kind of aggression has gotten us. The Middle East is worse off then it’s ever been leaving wide gaping holes for more Jihadist recruitment, a cauldron of hate foments towards the Americans, and Osama who is either sipping mint tea somewhere in a Bedouin tent with his cronies, or lying beneath a rubble of stone dead as a crushed scorpion, has not been found. Will we ever know what happened to him? HRC is not alone in this area, the same bombastic approach in issues of defense applies to most all the other candidates as well with the exceptions of Ron Paul, the only sane Republican candidate and Democrat, Dennis Kucinich. Obama has slightly faltered on this issue. Could be that he’s too green about the dynamics of defense, but so was Bill Clinton.
The only candidate who has attempted to illuminate us as to why the fundamentalist muslims hate us so much was Ron Paul. According to Mr. Paul, they don’t want us occupying their land with our military bases on what they consider to be sacred soil, bringing with them their immoral values and not respecting the ones of the peoples whose country they occupy. But for us, it’s not a question of sacred soil and values, it’s more like sacred oil and profiteering.
In the midst of all the messed-up-potamia madness, we’re still facing a much more crucial issue than fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here, and that is called “energy resources” or lack thereof. And now we have the Russians, Canadians, Norwegians and the Danes laying claim to their portion of the new oil pie that lies beneath the Arctic Sea. Soon, we will be looking at another “cold war” with the Russians, because that regime is not so easily bullied by bellicose American politicians, nor are they needy for American aid, and as of today, the experts agree that Russia’s oil reserves are big enough to support booming oil exports for decades to come. Their oil output hit eight million barrels a day in November, and hit some three billion barrels a year for the first time in a decade. Russia exports half as crude oil and a quarter as products, making it the second exporter after Saudi Arabia. Although Saudi Arabia oil towers over Russia, the Russians are still in a better place than we can imagine.
America needs a leader who can play the game with the Russians, use political diplomacy with our so-called enemies, and crack down on corporate monopolies who seem to run amok with our money and our brains. We need a leader who will help us heal the wound that was created by the Bush/Cheney administration. Think about this, when did divide and conquer become an oath for unity? That’s the dark legacy this loathsome administration can tout for years to come – they tried to destroy the Pledge of Allegiance . . . one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Wow! Now that’s something to be proud of as a president. You think?
I’m voting for Obama with the hope that if Hillary happens to win, she will have the good sense to ask Obama to run as the Vice President. A word to you Senator Clinton, you don’t have to act tough in order to have respect and trust. And Obama, try meditating when feeling the urge to smoke a cigarette. It will help you overcome the nicotine fight and then you can relax and make clear and sensible sound bites.

The Princess and the Frog

I received this lovely fairytale in an email forwarding. I decided to publish this humorous and insightful message on Gram Of Truth as well as emailing it to my friends. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did. It should have been read to us when we were little girls. However, our daughters and little sisters can now read it to the young ones before they grow up.

Once upon a time in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.

The beautiful princess picked up the warty-looking
frog and the frog said: ” Elegant Lady,
I was once a handsome prince,
until an evil witch cast a spell upon me.

One kiss from you, however,
and I will turn back into the dapper,
young prince that I am
and then, my sweet, we can marry

and set up housekeeping in your castle
with my mother, where you can prepare
my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children,
and forever feel grateful and happy doing so. ”

That night, as the princess dined sumptuously
on lightly sauteed frog legs
seasoned in a white wine
and onion cream sauce,

she chuckled and thought to herself:
“I don’t f’reakin think so!”