In the last 2 years we have seen hope and change deteriorate into weak and stupid. As Obama joked, Republicans had a 41-59 majority in the Senate. Democrats couldn’t govern with 60 seats but when Bush was president and the Democrats could have stopped him on a great many issues, the Democrats folded faster that Superman on laundry day.

For those of you who haven’t noticed, the Democrats still control 2 out of 3 in the legislative process, the Presidency and the Senate. But they act like it’s over. Did Bush act like it was over when Dems took the House and the Senate in 2006? Not at all. He stayed in control. Fired Rumsfield – that was it.

Our view is highly biased. But one can not turn their back on reality because tonight reality turned it’s back on us. Democrats have been the party of weak and stupid for far too long. We allow the Senate to hide behind the filibuster. In 2005 when the Dems were going to filibuster the Republicans were going to do some sort of “nuclear option” to get rid of it and the Dems caved. I was really hoping back then that Cheney had done that. Then he would have had at least one accomplishment.

Yes – we passed health care reform – a good thing – but then we ran away from it like we did something wrong. How stupid is that?

Obama spent the first year trying to be “bipartisan” when it was clear to anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together that being nice to Republicans wasn’t going to work. Weak and stupid!

For some reason the Dems don’t criticize or blame Bush for the mess we are in. Had they done that the election would have turned out differently. But Bush stole the election, started 2 wars, and collapsed the economy. Stealing on a level that makes people of both parties puke. And has anyone besides Madoff gone to jail? Nope! Not even an investigation. The justice department isn’t interested in those who steal billions. But they made it clear that they were going to focus on pot smokers should California pass Prop 19. How screwed up is that?

Then there’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Obama has the power as President to end it by executive order. Did he? No! But then we won in court. Victory? No! Obama appeals and overturns his victory. Didn’t even wait till after the election to screw the gays. How stupid is that?

When it comes to civil liberties Bush and Obama are on the same page. Domestic spying continues under Obama and the Democrats just the same as it did under Bush. Obama is listening in on our phone calls too, just like Bush did. And any time organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation try to challenge it, they hide behind the FISA court national security defense just like Bush did. We used to be a free country, but we are now all patriots under the patriot act.

The President has the power to close GITMO. He can just order it closed and ship the detainees here in a week. But does he? No. He caved in to the politics. Maybe he didn’t really want to close it.  GITMO is still open.

In 2006 and 2008 we didn’t elect Democrats. We threw out Republicans. America didn’t vote for Obama but against Bush. In the 2010 election the Republicans didn’t win, the Democrats lost. If you look at the Tea Party separately the Republicans lost too. Republican incumbents actually lost more races, they just lost them in the primaries. America is still throwing the bums out.

We as Democrats have a bias here that we can not allow to continue to blind us. We ask ourselves, “how can America be so stupid as to elect these crazy people to office?” And these tea baggers are in fact bat shit crazy. But what we are ignoring at our own peril is that the public can’t take it anymore. Our side is almost as stupid and crazy as they are if you look at what we actually do. We run from our accomplishments like we did something wrong. How crazy is that? And how crazy are we if we continue to deny what is obvious to the 2010 voter who has sent a message that we are still expecting change. We gave the Democrats the power to change and they didn’t use it. They governed as cowards.

Every year it’s an election between that party of evil and the party of weak and stupid. After 2 elections of throwing out evil and finally winning all three centers of power with the promise of hope and change, what do we get? Instead of hope and change we get nope and same. So after 2 election of voting against evil this time the voters voted against weak and stupid. They voted against business as usual.

The Republicans didn’t win either. Like I said, they lost their election in the 2010 primary. And one thing you are going to see is that they Republicans aren’t going to integrate them into the fold. It is more likely to be they other way. Either way – America is fucked.

21st century Nero. Bush plays as New Orleans drowns.

I’m calling it 413 for Obama – 125 for McCain. I don’t believe the polls. I don’t think their model applies to the election. The primary registered millions of Democrats and they are all voting for Obama. Young people, blacks, and Hispanics are all voting Obama and they are turning out. The early voting is huge and it’s heavily Obama. When you see the crowds McCain pulls about 1000 people. Obama pulls 50,000 people.

Bush’s approval is at around 20% and only 9% think the country is going in the right direction. Not a single person thinks McCain is going to win and the McCain loyalists are trying to argue that a miracle may be still possible. Major Republicans are defecting. Palin is a joke. Even the rich are losing their asses in the stock market. Wall street has been socialized. McCain looks like a bungling old fool. Erratic is an understatement.

Tomorrow when the long lines form at the polls Republicans might show up but what republican is going to stand in line for hours to cast a vote for McCain surrounded by Obama voters? They will go home without voting. I say that takes 4% more off the top. McCain has no ground operation because he spent his wad and the Republican Party’s wad on TV. (Not to mention $150k for Palin’s clothes.) And that phone call from the president of France – too much! What a fucking moron!

Additionally I think the Dems will get their 60 Sebate seats with Lieberman crawling back to the dems in shame. The House will be a bloodbath for Republicans. What little is left of the Reoublican party will be split as the fiscal conservatives break it off with the evangelicals.

All that will be left is for Bush to pardon all Republicans and run out the clock. Hopfully it’s not to late to save civilization.

Additionally I am looking for personal information on members of Congress regarding their personal credit card spending. Since Congress is now trying to require that credit card companies turn over your purchase records to the government I think it’s time that we spy on them to see where members of Congress are spending their personal money.

This sort of spying is outrageous. I am in stunned disbelief that members of Congress would even consider such a law. It is as if they are wiping their asses with the Bill of Rights. I don’t know any other way to get their attention other than having it happen to them so they can know what it’s like to be spied on. So even if this is illegal sometime it is necessary to break the law in order to restore the law. If they are going to let the telecoms to break the law then why can’t we do it?

When the president breaks the law he should be impeached rather than having Congress retroactively bless his illegal acts. This decision sends a message to future presidents that if you break the law then Congress will cover up for you. It also sends a message to big corporations that if the President and members of Congress asks them to conspire with them to break the law that they will receive immunity. This encourages corporations to break the law and them rewards law breaking.

Besides covering up the wrongdoing of the President it also covers up the wrongdoing of members of Congress who knew Bush was breaking the law and conspired with him through their silence. These members are complicit in acts of treason to the Constitution and they are just protecting their own asses in this immunity bill.

If you have the personal cell phone numbers of members of Congress please forward them to me so that we can contact them directly about what we think about them selling out our freedoms.

Furthermore Congress is working on a new bill requiring credit card companies to turn over your purchasing records to the government. So in order to make Congress feel our pain I’m asking The People to dig through the trash of members of Congress and publish their credit card information.

I think they should pass a law requiring anyone who is going to run for Congress pass a written test to see if they actually read and understand what the Constitution says. How can they swear to uphold the Constitution if they haven’t even read it?

As the founder of and member of the Church of Reality I’m claiming a religious exemption from federal law on the basis of our sacred religious principles under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Government spying on our church members violates our Sacred Principle of Personal Privacy and under our Principle of Activism we have to take a stand on this issue.

By CALVIN WOODWARD, [Moron] Associated Press Writer Tue May 27, 5:25 AM ET

WASHINGTON – There’s been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. Bill, it could be said, was born to run. Running became Hillary’s destiny, too.

One quarter of Americans have never known life without a Clinton trying for or having the presidency. Millions have gone from diapers to diplomas in the time of the Clintons. [Diapers to diplomas in 8 years?]

When Hillary Rodham Clinton finally exits the 2008 Democratic presidential race, she will end a decades-long, power-couple streak of unique political energy, savvy ideas, colossal policy flops and raw ambition dressed in pants suits and briefs, not boxers. [Sexual Reference]

“Every day is an adventure,” Bill said cheerfully at the start of it all. And how.

By now, the Clintons have been assigned mystical qualities of perseverance. The notion that the adventure is over is almost beyond comprehension.

“I never quit,” she says. “I never give up.”

Even in defeat, Hillary Clinton has made history as the first woman favored for a major party presidential nomination – the first with a real shot at the presidency.

She’s gotten more than 17 million votes in her own right this year, enticingly close to the number won by Barack Obama, who is making history, too, because he’s black.

With her cachet, not to mention her job in the Senate, Clinton won’t drift far from the nation’s consciousness. (Nor is Bill likely to get out of the country’s face.)

“Whatever else you might say about them, they have contributed to substantive dialogue and policy,” says Mary Matalin, a Clinton-era Republican strategist. “Hats off to them substantively.

“They’re really kind of giants in this world.”

In the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaign years, Hillary Clinton, now 60, will still be younger than the Republican candidate, John McCain, is now. Meantime, she could become a powerhouse senator in the manner of the stricken Edward M. Kennedy. Or a Supreme Court justice. Or Obama’s running mate.

Soon, though, there will be no Clinton running for president or about to. Imagine that.

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Clinton I:

Dial back to Bill Clinton’s two terms and a few big achievements and various smaller ones stand out: unsurpassed economic growth, a balanced budget, welfare reform, free trade, a Middle East peace agreement, gun control, more money for police on the street, the first Cabinet without white men in the majority.

Here was a man who could wear people out talking about the fine points of policy while owning up to his choice of underwear.

Another legacy was the transcendent His and Hers failure: universal health care. The complex, secretively drawn plan to achieve that goal was sent to and killed by a Democratic Congress, no less. [Failure of Congress - not Hillary]

And there were the scandals, His and Hers.

They are known, in brief, as: Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, [More sexual references] Whitewater, the White House travel office firings, White House coffees and Lincoln bedroom stays for donors, FBI background files on Republicans, missing documents [List of scandals that turned out to be not true] and the presidential pardon of a fugitive friend.

The episodes involving women were his. [Another sexual reference] Most of the others were theirs or hers.

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Scene from a ‘funeral’:

In January 2001, shortly before George W. Bush was sworn in, some of the Clintons’ fiercest critics from the right gathered in a Washington hotel to feast on filet mignon, salmon and sour grapes.

“It’s our way of celebrating the fumigation of Washington,” said L. Brent Bozell III, host of the “funeral” for the Clinton years.

“I’ve never seen a back I’ve found more attractive,” said Robert Bork, the scuttled Supreme Court nominee, meaning Bill Clinton’s back when he left town.

Bozell amended the Lord’s Prayer to say of Mrs. Clinton: “Her socialist agenda got runneth over.” And the Rev. Jerry Falwell gave the invocation, thanking God “a new wind is blowing.”

They seemed to be forgetting someone.

Hillary Clinton came blowing into the Senate chamber, the newly minted junior senator from New York.

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Clinton II:

She was diligent from the start, attentive to constituent needs and a hard worker on the Armed Services Committee. She promised to be “pretty New York-centric,” and was.

But everything she did was colored by the expectation of a presidential run.

The most polarizing woman in politics turned into a workhorse and formed surprising alliances with Republicans.

She edged toward the center and attempted to accomplish in little pieces what she could not pull off as a whole in her years as first lady.

Clinton joined Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, an architect of her husband’s impeachment, in a law improving health coverage for members of the National Reserve and Guard serving in Iraq.

She pushed for tighter regulation of prescription drugs for children and help for recovery workers whose health was impaired by laboring at the site of the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attack.

And she voted to authorize the Iraq invasion, which she would never live down after she cruised to re-election in 2006.

No monumental law bears her name.

But in the campaign, universal health care returned to her agenda. This time, she said, she would learn from her experience and do it right – more openly and less intrusively on parts of the health care system that work.

Clinton was the one to beat out of the gate. Everyone knew her, for one thing.

“Ninety-nine percent of the country feels they have a relationship with her,” said Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Clinton.

And there was Bill, still in everyone’s face. He stumped for his wife as if possessed. Hillary Clinton flashed him that bright smile on stage through thick and thin.

For some voters, that was one Clinton – or two – too many.

“We’ve had enough of the Clintons,” said Haydon Grubbs, 77, of Shalimar, Fla. “New direction, right?”

Grubbs, a Republican who voted in the past for the “He Clinton,” backed Obama this time.

The “She Clinton” found her own voice.

But, like her husband, she seemed the strongest when her back was against the wall.

As the odds of beating Obama sank into the nearly impossible, she campaigned as if there were some previously undiscovered “third way” to win, just as Bill Clinton had sought a third way to govern between the old politics of left and right.

On Friday, she cited the 1968 Democratic primaries as a reason why she should stay in the race. She mentioned the assassination of Robert Kennedy in June of that year, then apologized for bringing it up.

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Together, Bill and Hillary Clinton have pulled it out of the fire over and over, going back to 1976, when he bounced back from losing a congressional race two years earlier. He won election as Arkansas attorney general.

Two years after that, at 32, he became the nation’s youngest governor.

Then, defeat in 1980 when he sought a second term. It would be his final election loss, but hardly the last dip in the Clintons’ seemingly endless cycle of failure and renewal.

By the mid-1980s, when he was back in office in Little Rock, Clinton’s name was floating as a Democratic presidential prospect.

He took a pass in 1988. But that year marked one benchmark in the rollout of the Clinton era.

He delivered a speech at the Democratic convention laying out a new orthodoxy that he would bring to the presidential race himself four years later, his activist wife at his side.

The Clintons’ national conversation had begun.

The speech went on for so long that some people wondered if it would ever end.

In a way, it never did. Not until now.

Apparently sexist is ok but racist isn’t. Which is why Obama has the advantage.

The resolution to empower Bush to start a war with Iraq came at a time when Saddam refused to let inspectors in to check for weapons of mass destruction. The idea behind the resolution was to create a threat to get Saddam to back down and let the inspectors in.

And – to that end it worked. After the resolution was passed Saddam backed down and let the inspectors in. Under normal conditions this would have been a success.

If it had been any other president other than Bush this would have been the correct decision. Once the inspectors went in there were no weapons and it would all have been over. But because it was Bush he abused his authority and went to war fabricating a reason to justify it. No other president would have done that.

At that time however it was clear to me and a lot of other people that Bush was a madman and that if you give him a change to start a war he will. Hillary made the mistake of trusting that Bush was going to do the right thing. So if there’s any blame it’s that Hillary trusted Bush wouldn’t abuse his power to start an illegal war. But Hillary didn’t vote for the war. No one in Congress did. And every single Democrats (except for maybe Lieberman) would take their vote back if they knew ow Bush was going to abuse the authority.

In September of 2002 Al Gore came to San Francisco to talk at the Commonwealth Club. Al Gore spoke out SUPPORTING the resolution that Hillary voted for. At the end of his talk I interrupted him and confronted him saying that some of us are more afraid of Bush than Saddam. He looked at me like I was crazy and said that I can’t be serious. I most certainly was. And I’m looking forward to saying I told you so.

So Obama’s statement that Hillary voted for the war if just plain false.

Why the race is tied

A tie doesn’t have to mean an exact tie. If there is no questions about the process then it means an exact tie. But when there’s a serious question about the process and the difference between the candidates is within the margin of dispute, then that’s a tie.

For example. 100 votes are cast and candidate A has 47 votes, candidate B has 48 votes, and 5 votes we unreadable. This is a tie because without those 5 votes we don’t know who really won. Especially if those 5 votes was from candidate A’s district. So even though B has one more vote, the election is a tie. The fuzzy line is 5 votes wide. If the election is within the fuzzy line the election is tied.

Uncommitted Delegates

In the case of the Democratic party primary the fuzzy line is very wide. First is the super delegates which are uncommitted candidates who can vote for whoever they want. They represent 20% of the delegate votes. Add on to that the caucus votes where people were elected as uncommitted and add in the delegates of candidates who are out of the race. There’s a lot of people, who don’t want to be the ones to decide the election, who are going to have to decide the election.

Florida and Michigan

Florida and Michigan is a real mess. They moved up their primaries in spite of “party rules”. The Democratic party in their infinite wisdom decided to punish these states by denying the voters their right to vote. Additionally Obam, on his own initiative, decided to remove himself from the Michigan ballot the last day he was allowed to. Clinton declined to do that stating that she wasn’t going to disrespect the voters of Michigan.

The party rules were that candidates could not campaign in those states. However Obama spent 1.3 million advertising in Florida which was more money that all the Republicans put together. Clinton followed party rules and didn’t spend there.

If the votes in Michigan and Florida are counted then Clinton has a serious lead over Obama and the Democratic leaders, who feel that they have the power to declare that two states don’t get to vote, lose face. And Obama can claim it’s not fair because he wasn’t on the ballot in Michigan even though that was by his own poor judgment.

But if the votes in Florida and Michigan are not counted the Clinton cries foul. You can’t just take away the voting rights of millions of voters and expect them to vote for you in the general election. If Obama wins because Florida and Michigan weren’t counted, those states are going Republican in November and McCain wins. Clinton can also claim that because Obama spent money in Florida, in violation of party rules, that means that he can not now claim Florida doesn’t count.

Which argument is right? They both are. And there in lies the problem. No matter how they decide half of the voters are going to feel cheated. Especially if FL and MI are pivotal to the outcome.

You would think that after the 2000 election where Democrats were screaming that every vote should count that now they want no votes to count. Bush has to be laughing over this.

It’s not just about who wins – it’s uniting the party

It doesn’t matter who wins if half of the part feel cheated. The winner has to win cleanly and in a way that the loser’s supporters will feel good about the nominee. if voters feel cheated then they aren’t going to vote for the person who cheated them. So if either Obama or Hillary is the candidat, McCain wins the election. Then the Democrats can fight over who’s fault it was that they screwed up the election.

The Magic of the Coin Flip

It is not uncommon for tied elections to be resolved by the flip of a coin. Sometimes the candidates just agree to do it. In some cases courts have ordered a coin flip to resolve a tied election. A coin flip is magic because people respect it.

In this election there is little doubt that neither Obama or Clinton are going to be outside the fuzzy line. Who wins depends on what side you are on. But if you flip a coin, all that goes away. It no longer matters if you count Florida and Michigan. The super delegates don’t have to choose which half of the Democrats are going to hate them.

If the candidates flipped for it then that would be considered fair and the losing party would accept defeat and get behind the winner because they won “fair and square”. There would be no anger and the super delegates wouldn’t have to be the ones making the decision

The flip could be televised on lie TV and would be the most important coin flip in the history of the world. The Democrats could turn it into a serious promotional tool to the point where no one would remember who the Republicans are. They could take a catastraphy and turn it into an asset. They can turn it around from a disadvantage to and advantage. They could go from the party of stupid to the party of smart.

Democrats want both Clinton and Obama

This isn’t a race for the lesser of to evils or competing ideologies. Obama and Clinton agree on most everything. Clinton claims more experience, Obama better judgment. Clinton has better plans, Obama is more inspiring. Are the voters more racist or more sexist? Voters in both camps really likes their candidate wants their candidate to win. So let them BOTH win!

The idea is that if you flip a coin the loser gets to be VP. In my mind that should be part of the deal so that the loser isn’t really losing, they are winning second place. It will either be Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton. And a random act with determine the order.

Rules for the flip

If I were in charge here’s what I would do. There would be 2 flips. The first to determine who calls it in the air. I would say Heads/Obama, Tails/Clinton. Then the second flip counts. I flip the coin. The winner of the first flip calls it in the air. It has to land on a carpeted floor so it doesn’t roll or land on the edge. No catching the coin. If the person who calls it is correct then they are the winner and they get to choose if they want to be on the top of the ticket. They could also bring in lottery/casino experts to ensure the randomness of the event.

A coin flip is the easy way out

As you can see the coin flip is the easy way out and politicians always go for the easy way out. It makes all the problems and complications go away. This race really is tied. The votes are not going to determine who the winner is. So let’s just flip a coin and get it over with.

Let’s stop the illegal wiretapping – Challenge to candidates

The Bush administration has again authorized illegal wiretapping of our phones. He has the cooperation of the phone companies who Congress he wants Congress to give immunity to. The vote essentially authorizes the President to break the law. Nixon must be spinning in his grave to not hav thought of it. Here’s the article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2229053420080224

Tying this into the election. Many of you have a different opinion as to who should be president. A say let’s put them to the test. I will support the candidate who can show the kind of leadership necessary to be president. I want to challenge all the presidential candidates to be the one who draws the line in the sand and tells Bush that we will not allow him to break the law. I’m going to be sending the message to press@hillaryclinton.com, and contributions@hillaryclinton.com. I don’t have email addresses for the other candidates, but if someone come up with some I’ll pass it on. Can’t find an email address on the Obama site.

Oh – and – you can also pick up the phone and call them. If someone has some inside phone numbers or inside email addresses let me know and I’ll pass them on to you.

What I want is for someone to be the leader. That Clinton or Obama lead the Democrats and make them vote against immunity for the phone companies. And I’m not just talking that they should vote against it, I’m saying that they can distinguish themselves from the other candidates by taking a stand, leading their party, and winning this fight. Same thing on the Republican side. McCain, Huckabeee, or Ron Paul can step forward and demand that the Republicans oppose this bill and kill it.

So I’m asking each and every one of you to spread this challenge as far and wide as you can but in particular target your favorite candidate with this message of challenge. Use your powers as leader to rally the people for law and order. If for example Obama called on his cult followers to storm the whitehouse and demand that the rule of law applies to everyone then he wins. Same thing for Hillary. This is the chance for one of them in articular to actually stand for something and distinguish themselves on the basis of courage, something that in my opinion neither on has shown. Hillary is rightly accused of having judgment problems. Obama is rightly accused of being just talk. Both are true. This is thier chance to settle this once and for all. And whoever is first wins.

A President has to be a leader and if they can’t lead their own party then how are they going to lead a nation is a time of crisis? Which ever one makes it happen will win the election. So – those of you who support Obama, he’s your big chance to finish her off. Those of you who support Hillary, here’s her chance to show she has the experience and good judgment to lead. Everyone talks change, but who can make it happen?

Please bombard the candidates with this. Thanks in advance for making it happen.

About Reality

I’m beginning to think Reality is a word that some people are very uncomfortable with. It’s like talking about death and sex. Very heavy denial. But reality is something wonderful and the more I learn the more fascinating it is. There’s nothing more interesting to me than reality. But we need to find ways to get people used to talking about reality and being reality positive. Reality is our friend. Because if not for reality none of us would have a reality to be real in. Many religions teach that this “material world” is some sort of sinful place and that this world (reality) should be ignored. We need to write new software for the collective mind and make reality something that we all respect. Respect Reality – Hey! I like it! Someone put it on a t-shirt!

Marc Perkel
First One
Church of Reality
“A single email can change the course of human history”