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Billary Clinton, pictured in Iowa last night, came in third place in the Iowa Democratic caucuses last night -- as did Howard Dean in January 2004. Iowans made Illinois Sen. Barack Obama their first choice for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards their second choice. Repugnican caucus-goers in Iowa last night picked as their No. 1 Baptist preacher and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who, besides having a shit-kicking surname, is being sought by members of the Taliban for tips on how to run a patriarchal theocracy. Under President Huckabee we'd be hanging gay men just for being gay, just like they do in Iran.
There is a God
-- and She doesn't like Billary either!
Well, the new year has started out OK!
I stopped blogging a while ago, figuring: What's the fucking point?
But there is hope in the air now, because Billary Clinton's bid for the White House seems to be going the way of Howard Dean's same quest in January 2004. Can you give us a little scream, Billary? Puhhhlease?
Yup -- just as the arrogant Deaniacs were ready to coronate Dean as the '04 Democratic presidential nominee before a single vote had been cast, only to see his campaign spontaneously implode in the snows of Iowa, the arrogant Clintonistas seem to have been similarly humbled.
I'm fine with a female president; I'm not OK with Billary Clinton as president, and apparently the caucus-goers in Iowa weren't, either. I think we're all more than just a little sick and fucking tired of the Same Old Shit, and it looks as though Iowans last night put an end to the spectre of a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton White House lineup.
Give me a real Democrat, a real progressive, such as my own Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose balls are larger than mine will ever be, and I'll wholeheartedly support her bid for the presidency. But no more Liebermanesque pro-Vietraq War "Democrats" like Billary Clinton. Fuck. That. Shit.
It looks as though Iowans last night did what Howard Dean, as chair of the Democratic National Committee, promised to do but has yet to do: take back the Democratic Party for We, the People. Democratic Party hacks obediently have lined up like lemmings to support Billary Clinton, whose main "qualification" is her surname, but now, thanks to the wise folks of Iowa, she now goes into the New Hampshire primary Tuesday seriously crippled.
I expect the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate to be Iowa victor Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois or former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards. Obama is my favorite of the two, but I can live with either of them as the Democratic presidential candidate, and I'm hoping for an Obama-Edwards or Edwards-Obama ticket (although for the longest time I was really, really hoping -- and I even [very apparently incorrectly] predicted -- that Al Gore would jump into the race).
Should Billary Clinton actually manage to win the Democratic nomination -- something that I've been doing my part to prevent by donating to the Obama campaign -- she won't get my vote. If she's the candidate and Ralph Nader runs again, I'll vote for him again, just as I did in 2000. That's how sick and fucking tired I am of these Democrats in name only.
P.S. to the Repugnicans: Um, Mike Huckabee? What's his campaign slogan going to be? "Because racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, hypocritical white men have been underrepresented in the United States of America for too damned long"? If the 'Pugs want any chance at keeping the White House, they'll pick Arizona Sen. John McCain or former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, either of whom probably can convince the swing voters of his sanity. (Not that I want to be helping the enemy...)
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