Jimmy boy, you just lost my vote. Not that you had it anyway, but now I would vote for my cat before I’d vote for you.
Combat is often a kill-or-be-killed situation. People who found themselves in that situation (and who cope with it) learn to forgive themselves. I have known a number of combat veterans from WW-2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq 1, Iraq 2 and Afghanistan. To a person (several are women who ended up in combat inadvertently and grabbed an M-16 to protect themselves and others), they don’t brag about it. There seems to be something very private about that experience: it’s something they don’t bring out often.
They also seem to be suspicious of anyone who pulls their combat experiences out casually. There is something about killing another human that changes people.
It’s amazing how much better Hillary is when we get to hear her speak and talk instead of getting information about her through the media, which I have grudgingly come to admit, largely, has something against Hillary, far beyond their normal dislike of the left.
I know people insist that more debates will hurt Hillary, and help her opponents, but I greatly disagree. I think Hillary will come out looking very good in the debates and the more she has, the more we can see her, instead of the caricature presented in the news.
When it was Jim Webb and Lincoln Chaffee’s turn, that’s when “Law and Order” made its appearance as the du jour of the moment on my TV set. Sorry, but these people are a joke. Webb might as well be a Republican lite, and Chaffee is just a goofball that has way too much time on his hands. And no, no matter what Chris Hayes thinks, CNN was right not to invite Lawrence Lessig to this shindig. He’s a one-trick pony.
It’s a great loss to us, not going metric. With metric --going full SI – science is so much easier to conceptualize, teach, understand, because of the ready conversion of dimensions it presents. Without that, from the very beginning we’re left with rote learning, missing the opportunity to visualize and relate , even at the most elementary level.
It’s not so much that there’s no room for additional candidates, but that there’s no separate niche that he fills, to put it in biological terms. When there’s no reason to vote for him over another candidate, in either style or substance, then what’s the point of him being in the race? The more fit candidates consume all the available resources (polling support, media attention, donations) from their respective positions, and he ends up going extinct. The same goes for Chafee (Webb has a niche, he just hasn’t recognized that it’s become exceedingly small since he was a Senator).
Incidentally, this is why Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry would be better off if they understood evolution.
Ok, but consider…he is arguing for much tougher regulation of Wall Street banks, for reinstating Glass Steagal, so more in line with Sanders, but he is also tough of guns. To me, that seems like a very viable position for a lot of progressives.
Similarly, he is line with Hillary on guns, but is much tougher on Wall Street. By the same argument, that seems to be a position that a lot of Democrats would back.
To me, he seems like a natural in between Sanders and Clinton, which I think there is still quite a bit of difference between the two.
In biological terms, birds eat bugs, snakes eat birds. Just because you have bugs and snakes, doesn’t mean you don’t need birds.
