just biden my time

it looks to me like mr biden's gaff was an attempt to say something nice about mr obama. he must not have noticed it contained an implied comparison with other african americans, and—as a very old saying goes—comparisons are odious.

i learned from washington journal that "clean" wasn't the only word that offended folk: there was also "articulate." someone said nobody can say jesse jackson's not articulate. a caller disagreed, saying what's articulate about "if it don't fit you must acquit"? she then went on to complain that the media stomp on gops over racism but let dems get away with it.

as i'm sure most of you know, jesse jackson isn't johnnie cochran, but apparently "they all look alike" to that caller, who needs to get her phobic glasses cleaned.

my own problem with mr biden is he's one of the 58% of dem senators who in october 2002 voted to authorize the use of force in iraq. ms clinton is another.

now, maybe he could make the same claim she has that if he'd been prez we wouldn't've invaded, but that's not enough for me. what we need in the oval office is somebody who can see thru bullshit and anticipate undesirable consequences.

ms clinton can't even excuse her vote by saying she was up for reelection the next month, as could mr biden. but it doesn't excuse him either, even tho we know the white house hoped the upcoming election would pressure congress to pass the resolution, because we also know 126 house dems voted "nay" tho they were all up for reelection, with the exception of retirees.

neither of them had the foresight and street smarts either to see thru the bogus WMD charges or to recognize the possibility that the administration might abuse the intent of the resolution and go to war unnecessarily. that in spite of the cloud of gunsmoke hanging over DC from numerous speeches by chicken little himself, his svengali vp, his rasputin political adviser, and his miss muffet national security adviser.

i hope enough grassroots dems wake up to nominate somebody without that baggage, and i wish it could be a woman, but i may have to hold my nose in '08 on what i consider a vital issue, and i won't like it.