the death of a party, improving human rights, and "supporting" the troops...

you got to give it to hillary clinton, she seems to have a drive within her that blinds her to anything but obtaining her birth/marriage right of occupying the chair where her husband used a cigar (we hope not a cuban...what with those dirty commies being under an embargo and all) on another woman. in the process of trying to be the "come back kid" (an amusing term for a self-crowned nominee that will only now win in one of two ways - murder or theft...the american way), hillary may very well accomplish something I have been seeking for some time...the death of the democratic party. I’ve been unbelievably peeved at the democrats for simple echoing the conservative movement’s talking points for years and have hoped beyond hope that some day the democratic party would finally fail when the people realized it abandoned us long ago. unfortunately, now that hillary is beginning to look as though she will succeed at this monumental task of dismantling the party of the new deal - it comes at a time when so many of us hoped that our voices would be heard by the party again, and we chose obama as our spokesman. so now we have hillary clinton...a "liberal" that is doing all she can to make not only obama unelectable, but ensure that half of her party bolts as a result...we have a "liberal" declaring that to be president you must be militaristic to a fault. we have a "liberal" declaring you must have more ties to entrenched interests than anyone else to occupy the white house. we have a "liberal" race-baiting to secure votes. we have a "liberal" surrounding herself with bigotry. we have a woman hell bent on overturning the popular vote by some old white men in the party that, just 8 years ago, cried and cried and cried that the popular vote had been over-ruled by a handful of folks in robes.

the death of a party...it came as no surprise.

good thing the olympics will be in beijing because now the world can pressure the chinese into observing basic human rights. or else they can just recognize that they have the "globalized" economy by the balls and do whatever the fuck they want...jail dissenting journalists and the most recent - relive some of the great moments of government brutality by sending in convoys of heavily armed troops to confront a few hundred students and monks. the result - beatings and a few dead so far...and its only going to get worse. I’ve got five on the administration saying "hey, stop that now" while never even remotely threatening economic sanctions (but then china doesn’t have black gold...or many brown people). for all our ridiculous ideological talk...we pretty much fucked ourselves when we bought into "globalization" - but then I guess a nation that is still in its infancy can’t really be expected to understand shit about historical trends.

good thing conservatives "support" our troops as much as they do...otherwise we might be concerned when soldiers, taken from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged, lose benefits when they can’t finish their tours of duty. yup...get your leg blown off "defending" your country and they yank your GI Bill...apparently you are supposed to walk it off - or rather hop it off. the pentagon has been slashing benefits for years while forcing overtime (cutely termed "stop gap") on people that were forced into the military because Big Business has made sure that the same thing happened in the civilian world. sucks to be working class these days - lose your job when the democrats set up trade agreements to fuck you...which means you lose your health insurance because the democrats forced the trade agreements when they could’ve given you universal health care (pretty much the democratic way of pissing on you after giving you a severe beating)...which means you are in serious shit...which leads you to the armed forces recruiter - who promises you great benefits like you once enjoyed thanks to your union and the new deal (since sold out by the democrats), and so you sign on the dotted line. then you find yourself shipped off to some god-forsaken desert where the locals can’t wait for you to leave and some IED blows your leg to pieces. unfortunately, your tour was about to be up in a month and you can’t finish it...so all those benefits promised to you are taken away and you are back to your hometown in a run-down wheel chair, now with respiratory problems thanks to the mold in the veteran’s hospital, and you look with scorn on the boy king as he pats soldiers on the back and tells the country how much he respects you and those that fought along-side you...but you know they really don’t give two shits about you, and they never did. and you start to wonder who it is that is actually "supporting" the troops...