Two Democratic presidential candidates, former senator John Edwards (N.C.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), were caught Thursday by Fox News microphones after a forum in Detroit discussing their desire to limit future joint appearances to exclude some lesser-known rivals.Edwards says, "We should try to have a more serious and a smaller group."
Clinton agrees, saying, "We've got to cut the number" and "They're not serious." She also says that she thought their campaigns had already tried to limit the debates and "we've got to get back to it."GOI: Ah, nothing says American politics like trying to engineer the process. Remember how I was leaning toward Edwards?? Not anymore and you already know how I feel about Clinton. On the other hand I've been looking at Gov. Bill Richardson who seems to me to have the best experience of all: He's been governor so he has executive credentials, he's been an ambassador so he has international relations experience including all of the hot spots of the world (N. Korea, Middle East and Africa) and he has legislative experience from being a Congressman for 14 years (where he was progressive on environmental issues amongst other subjects).
On Thursday of last week a report surfaced that Richardson has used a Spanish word last year that some consider a slur against homosexuals but Richardson contends it was meant to be playful yet apologized to anyone offended. Moreover, he has one of the strongest records on gay rights issues of any of the candidates in this cycle.
Iraq News:
BAGHDAD, July 14 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared Saturday that Iraqi forces could secure the country on their own “any time” American troops decided to withdraw, his first response to the White House report this week that found his government falling well short of many political reforms and military goals sought by Congress.
“We say with confidence that we are capable, God willing, of taking full responsibility for the security file if the international forces withdraw in any time they wish,” Mr. Maliki said.
GOI: Well that's all that I need to hear so, time to go.
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6 comments:
I agree that Clinton and Edwards should not try to engineer the process; that's undemocratic. But this political period, with the condensed time-table, is also warying. Very suddenly, there is going to be this flood of primaries. We are going to go from a big field of candidates, to a winner in a jiffy. In the past there has always been a period of months, with primaries spread out, when the field winnows down, such that you can have debates between the last un-fallen two or three candidates. In those debates, there is time for depth.
BTW, Richardson has some unusual problems, including a propensity to pinch women's behinds.
I keep hoping to hear that Obama has climbed back to the top of your President Wish List.
Tom:
I couldn't agree with you more about the problems of the accelerated primary process. It's a disservice to the democratic process. Then again not much is left of our Democracy it seems anymore.
Hopefully Richardson's "annoyances" as the lady called them won't continue. I just really like his experience.
I'm not as worried about his "flirting issues" as long as he doesn't claim some air of moral superiority as some of those conservative guys do. That's why I rip them so hard--the hypocrisy.
Don't worry, Obama is still up there on my list--I'm not giving up on him completely yet. ;)
I agree with Tom on this one. You are going to go from 8 to one in a span of about a month. That is too quick to decide the nominations. The reason for this is all about money again. If the candidates come visit your state, money rolls in. That is why New Hampshire and Iowa fight to keep their status as the first two contests.
I like Richardson, but I can't see him as President. There is just something that tells me that he isn't president material. He has the best qualifications by far, though.
Brent:
Yeah unfortunately he most likely will not make the nomination but I am tired of supporting the lesser of two evils. I want to support and vote my conscience.
I'm smelling a BIG distraction coming soon....or my tin foil hat is too tight.
Liberal:
Distractions have a way of showing up at the right time don't they??
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