 'President Boxer' blog
There's a new blog called "President Boxer" in which yours truly gets a mention.
While it's way too early to endorse my senator, Barbara Boxer, California's true Democratic U.S. senator, as the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, I'd love to have a female president. We're quite overdue for one.
However, Boxer cried in public when she opposed the rubber-stamping of the Ohio presidential vote, and while I personally have no problem with people showing emotion, public officials, male or female, crying in public are probably perceived by a sizeable chunk of the electorate as weak, so if Boxer ever wants to be president, I think she's going to have to learn to suck it up.*
It's unfair, but in politics perception is reality (such as the perceptions that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that could result in a "mushroom cloud" and that Saddam Hussein and Iraq had anything whatsofuckingever to do with 9/11 and al-Qaeda).
While I suspect that Boxer, with her recent spotlight-grabbing dissent, is angling for the Oval Office, I don't know what's in her mind. It could be that she's just sick and tired of the spinelessness of the Democrats and that if no one else will speak up, she will. Her actions as of late stand out, I think, because the Democrats have been asleep at the wheel for the past four-plus years and thus it's a bit shocking these days when a Democrat actually acts like a fucking Democrat.
What I suspect will happen, of course, is that other Democrats will see that Boxer not only did not implode or combust when she actually acted like a Democrat and stood up for the people, but now people are saying "President Boxer" -- and those other Democrats' testicles, which have long been lodged within their abdominal cavities, will miraculously descend.
(For example, while John Kerry remained in the background over the Ohio vote, letting Boxer do the dirty work, the only two Democratic senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted against rubber-stamping Condofuckingleezza Rice as the new U.S. secretary of state were Boxer and Kerry. Would Kerry have voted against Rice's nomination if Boxer hadn't protested the Ohio vote and then grilled Rice during her confirmation hearing? Is he afraid that Boxer is eclipsing him for the '08 Democratic presidential nomination?)
Already it is looking as though we could have a packed field of Democratic presidential hopefuls even earlier than we did for the 2004 election. (I endorsed John Kerry way back in June 2003.)
I won't forget, however, that it was Barbara Boxer who stood up to the RepubliNazis first.
*Of course, if she'd had any fucking support from just one other Democratic senator in challenging the Ohio presidential vote, she probably would have felt a lot less stress and wouldn't have cried. You probably would cry too if it happened to you.
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