Sunday, August 31, 2008

Another gay wedding...

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Yesterday, I had the honor of officiating at another gay wedding ceremony, this time leaving our local Gayzebo unmolested, and having all the festivities in Davis.

A little friend of mine, now 11 I guess, who I have watched and admired for years, made the profound statement that "It's impossible to be sad when you are blowing bubbles." Fabulous!

I also experienced perhaps the highlight of my musical career- I think it will probably never get better than singing Charlene's "Never Been To Me" and "Dancing Queen" anchored by a bunch of handsome, articulate, talented gay guys, with some drunk heterosexuals along for the ride, too. It was the cultural Mount Everest of my life, so far- or maybe K-2 or Kilimanjaro.

Son or grandson?

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At first, the rumors were that the First Daughter of Alaska was pregnant. Now it appears that the more likely, yet still unsubstantiated, facts are that there already is a First Grandson of Alaska.

It seems that at the time the very-slender-but-pregnant Governor was parading around the State, the First Daughter was absent from school for 8 months with a mysterious illness.

Hmmmm...

Things happen in families, all kinds of families, and by all accounts, Alaska's First Family is a good one.

No criticism should be leveled about the quality of anyone's parenting skills or family values in this day and age just because a daughter gets pregnant- especially in Alaska, where, after all, what else is there to do?

You can't even hunt Polar Bears, at least until/unless the Governor is successful in getting them removed from the Endangered Species list.

That being said, the integrity of any Governor who would so blatantly lie and collude to hide a story such as this, in this day and age, MUST be questioned if this story turns out to be true.

A Dickless Cheney is not what John McCain needs, and it sure as hell is not what the Country needs...

Palin' in comparison...

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Welcome to Dan Quayle redux. This is now proof positive that John McCain is losing it.

He describes his new running mate as his "soulmate", yet he met her only twice before naming her to be the heartbeat-away backup to a man who has had cancer twice.

The entire GOP message has been, and was going to continue to be, that BO does not have the experience to be president- except, of course, that he is in league with Kennedy, Roosevelt the Greater, Lincoln, Washington, John Adams, etc. We have seen what such "experiences" as ruining a state, ruining a baseball team, and ruining an oil company has gotten us in the last 8 years.

Sitting here, with 30 years of municipal work experience, and starting my third term as a City Councilman, having served on Yolo LAFCO, I am better prepared to be VP.

If nominated, I will run; If elected I will serve; My first promise will be to not shoot anybody if I am ever out hunting with a lawyer, two women, and my wife is off visiting the lesbian daughter I have never recognized as having.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Lighten up...

I was dismayed to hear one of the news anchors yesterday say that whenever she says something negative about Barack she gets tons of e-mails, but barely any when something negative is said about JMac.

The cynic in me wants to say that it must be simply a matter of people protesting falsehoods and not the truth, but that probably isn't ALWAYS the case. :-)

It is definitely time to lighten up, Obamaniacs.

Barack is a United States Senator, and he is legitimately a target for criticism from his opponents. He's not a saint, nor a messiah, not even Mother Theresa or Ghandi.

He also has a great sense of humor. That being said, I have finally received a great joke about our man. Thanks to the local Fire Chief, Scotty Dozier, for sending it to me. Sadly, the prior joke I got from the FD, from his Admin Assistant, Robbie Rubio, was hysterical, but not suitable for printing here on a famous liberal/progressive blog.

A classic…

The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican
candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win. There
was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a
week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things.

The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.

Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest
between the two candidates to determine the winner. After much of back
and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest would take place on a
frozen lake in Merrifield in northern Minnesota .

There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out
separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch,
for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties.

At the end of the first day, McCain returned to the starting line and he had ten fish. Soon, Obama returned and had no fish.

Well, everyone assumed he was just having a 'bad hair' day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day.

At the end of the 2nd day, McCain came in with 20 fish and Obama came
in again with none.

That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said,
“Barack, I think McCain is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see
just how he is cheating.”

The next night (after McCain returns with 50 fish- breaking all fishing laws, btw), Reid said to Obama, 'Well, tell me, how is McCain cheating?'

Obama replied, “Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting
holes in the ice.”

Monday, August 25, 2008

Life begins...?

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Today, in Denver, there were people shouting "baby-killers".

Nobody likes abortion. Many people like Civil Rights, although not as many as once did apparently, or we would not be where we are.

It is a medical fact that up to 50% of all pregnancies self-terminate via miscarriage, often without the mother even knowing she was pregnant.

Although I don't believe in any god, the Christian God is supposed to be a "just" God, a "loving" God. If life really began at conception, would a just and loving God snatch away all those lives before they had a chance to bring love, experience, wisdom, trial, and tribulation to their parent(s)?

I think not.

The Bible mentions several times about the "breath" of life, coming and going. Nowhere does it mention life beginning at conception, and it is a fairly recent, convenient-for-the-religious-wackos hypothesis- in my lifetime, certainly. I think St. Augustine said life begins at three months, but what the hell does a saint know, n'est pas? And the greatest of all Saints, Archie Manning, never weighed in on the subject as far as I know...

I support people being prosecuted for double-murder when a pregnant women is the victim, because they are robbing the surviving relatives of two lives.

The Bottom Line: if the Right feels that strongly enough about it and disregards their Bible's lessons, let's give pregnant women TWO votes.

They won't agree, of course, because, after all, all those damn minorities breed like rabbits, and would just time their pregnancies to control elections.

Plagiarism and College

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Does John McCain really want to have this conversation?

Joe Biden apparently plagarized some work in college, which we have known about for some time.

Starting in 2000, John McCain has stolen a POW story from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and made it his own, a paper hero stealing from a true hero.

John McCain's "proud" family tradition of Naval service led him to party his way through one of the finest military academies in the world and finish in the bottom 1% of his class there. I doubt, though, that had anything to do with him being shot down.

I am not sure that college experience and performance is an appropriate subject for an election involving people of these ages, but John McCain should be damn careful about what he asks for...

Sunday, August 24, 2008

GOP Ticket...

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Obama-Biden flows very nicely. Consequently, I have been wondering for the last 24 hours if McCain can come up with something as nice.

I have some suggestions that I think would send the right message, after thinking about the 435 Congressman, 100 senators, 50 governors, and some other famous people. Some are Democrats, so there would be that whole cross-party appeal, too. Creative pronunciation is occasionally required.

Governors:

McCain-Crist (FL); McCain-Lynch (NH)
McCain-Huntsman (UT) McCain-Blunt (MO).

Representatives:

(McCain-Doolittle (CA); McCain-Delay (TX); McCain-Boozman (AR); McCain-Flake (AZ); McCain-Skelton (MO); McCain-Weiner (NY) McCain-Israel (NY); McCain-Sires (NJ); McCain-Obey (WI); McCain-Bordallo (Guam);

Senators:

McCain-Corker (TN); McCain-Crapo (ID)

Other Potential Famous Actual or Fictional People:

McCain-Scrooge, McCain-Lechter, McCain-McFly, Jerry Mathers would give us a McCain-Beaver ticket, George Strait would get us McCain-Strait, and McCain-Eminem has a nice ring to it.

Locally: Our vice-mayor would give us a McCain-has-a-Woody ticket; Our Streamkeeper would give us a McCain-Rich ticket.

Sadly...


I could not find anyone (say them
out loud with "McCain-") named McMuffin, Shint, Needed, Temper, O-Rama, DooDoo, or WarMonger.



Saturday, August 23, 2008

Heroes...

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I am writing this on the 23rd of August, before my latest letter to the newspaper has even been published. I'll take heat for the "...dropping bombs...from 2o,ooo feet...", comment I made in it, but so be it.

This is not about Viet Nam, nor the Marines, sailors, National Guard folks, and soldiers who fought there. The treatment by the public of those brave men and women when they returned from simply doing their jobs gave me a stomach ache and broke my heart then, and it has the same effect to this day.

It's also not about innocent civilians getting killed. That's a fact of every war our country has fought since those very first shots at Lexington, and it's a tragedy.

John McCain more than lived up to the commitment he made when he accepted a great education at Annapolis. He is a brave man, and served his country honorably, but John McCain is not a hero.

As Chris Rock said once upon a time, "There. I said it. It had to be said."

A hero doesn't offer to trade military information in order to be taken to the hospital, which McCain not only did, but wrote about in the May 14th, 1973 issue of U.S. News & World Report.

A hero also doesn't accept special treatment because he has a father who is a Navy Admiral. It's not clear if he himself told the NVA who is father was, but it is clear that he accepted special treatment.

Beyond that, very basically and quite simply, true heroes don't talk about it.

Sure, they may go home, and answer the "How was your day, dear?" question. They may even get dragged to an awards ceremony. Then, it's over- except, of course, when then get asked to re-tell the story, and that fades with time.

I don't know the politics of all the people I am going to mention here, but most or all are ardent John McCain supporters and all are men I respect.

The difference is they understand what a true hero is. They get it, and John McCain doesn't.

If my postal carrier, Richard Pitts, ever pulls somebody out of a pool while out on his rounds, and revives them with CPR, or snatches a child out of traffic in the nick of time, you can bet your last dollar he will never again speak out about it on his own.

If the local police officer I know best, Todd Barnett, ever risks his life by pulling somebody out of a burning car after an accident, you can bet your last dollar on him, too.

And when was the last time anybody ever heard Scott Dozier or Steve Godden talk about any of the heroic things they did during their long careers?

Exactly.

And a true hero does not make the comments he does, like "I have experienced poor health care under another government" just to pander for votes.

On November 4th, vote the man- not the myths.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Local Letter to the Editor

The week before last, in a local letter to the editor, Ms. Sabra Brunig suggested that we liberals should read Jerome Corsi's latest trash, Obama Nation. Her suggestion reveals the shallowness and lack of knowledge of many McCain supporters, and further exposes the morally-bankrupt McCainstream Media.

Jerome Corsi has said some true things along the way, but not very often. Certainly not in Obama Nation. He is very much the McCarthy of our time. (Neo-Cons: that's Joe McCarthy, the U.S. Senator, not Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen's dummy). I probably should run with the dummy thread- maybe later.

What actual truths has he spouted?

On March 2, 2008, he wrote an article stating that the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army, a Muslim terrorist group tied to Al-Qaida, is supporting John McCain for president.

On February 28, 2008, he wrote that John McCain's fortune is tied to organized crime.

On February 15, 2008, he wrote that John McCain's campaign is vulnerable to the influence-peddling accusations that have dogged the Arizona Senator for years.

On February 12, 2008, he wrote that John McCain set up an Institute in order to receive donations from prominent non-profit organization, and had to leave the Institute's Board after it was disclosed that he lobbied the FCC for the media giant Cablevision after they donated $ 200,000.00. The reason for the income stream was to pay his key campaign people between elections.

Corsi's most outrageous statement was that "(Pedophilia) in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press". I substituted "pedophilia" for the actual words, as they were unfit for a family blog.

From my perspective, of course, Ms. Brunig just does not get it. I wonder how she would feel if the Community treated her just like many of the John McCain supporters or the bigots or the racists are treating Barack Obama. What would that look like? Hmmm...

"Sabra".

That's obviously a Muslim name. Nobody with that name could be a Christian or a Catholic or a Mormon, right?

The name obviously belongs to somebody who is here illegally, and is liable to put a bomb under our beds at any time.

Anybody with that name cannot be a patriot, even if she happens to be a United States Senator from the breadbasket of our great country, Illinois.

Somebody with that name who opposed, and wants to end ASAP, one of the most outrageous and unjust wars in history, is obviously placing personal gain above the Country.

Obviously, anybody with that name elected to office would take their oath on the Koran and not the Bible- it doesn't matter that the truth is that it was another African-American official who used Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Koran to take his oath. I mean, all Sabras look alike, right?

We could try it, but it won't work. Myopia is incurable. For the record, I think Sabra is a great name.

Here's the deal...

If you want a war hero as president, and you think dropping bombs on people, including innocent civilians, from 20,000 feet makes you a war hero and qualifies you to be president, then John McCain is your man.

If you want a family values guy as president, and you think cheating on your disabled-in-a-car-crash wife with, and ultimately leaving her for, a young, beautiful, rich heiress is a good family value, then John McCain is your guy.

If you want a president with integrity, and you think a guy who plagiarizes a religious POW camp story from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago has integrity, then John McCain is your guy. Of course, you will have to forget you outrage over Hillary's "sniper fire" fabrication.

If you want a guy who will have the Bee Gees "How Deep is Your Love" as a theme song, only the lyrics will be changed to "How Many Wars Can We Fight", then John McCain is your guy.

If you think you are better off today than you were 8 years ago, then John McCain is your guy.

If you want a guy who says he is the one who is in touch with mainstream America, but doesn't know how many homes he owns, then John McCain is your guy.

If you want a president who surrounds himself with lobbyists, including at least one who lobbies for a foreign government, then John McCain is your guy.

Finally, if you are proud of a Constitution that is in tatters, and looks more and more every day like the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814, then John McCain is your guy.

Me? I would rather vote for Sabra.

My name is Tom McMasters-Stone, and I approved this partially-satirical blog post.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Outrage

Henry Cejudo, the son of illegal aliens, who was raised, along with 4 siblings, by his single mom, has stolen an Olympic Gold Medal from real Americans- I mean real North Americans... oh, wait, uh...

Anyway, it doesn't matter that we don't have a name for ourselves that doesn't slight the Canadians or Mexicans, or the other citizens of the Americas.

What matters is this guy who should have never been born in this country stole a medal from somebody who REALLY deserved it.   Somebody from Annapolis or Stanford should have been standing there, right?   Somebody who has lived the real American dream- having a rich family, somebody who knows the real value of the gold in the medal, who hasn't had to work, but has been able to just focus on athletics...

Clearly the end of civilization as we know it.   The next thing you know, some 1/2 black guy will be running for president.

Besides, considering how most Mexicans get here, shouldn't they be cleaning up in swimming medals anyway?

Great job, Henry!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Sniper Fire II

Apparently, being a simple prisoner of war was not sufficient for Senator McCain.

Despite having written and spoken about his POW times extensively in years past, a new chapter has emerged since he began running for President- which I am calling Sniper Fire II.

Now it seems that JMac also had a moment of Christian fellowship in his POW camp, when a guard came in, loosened his bonds, and drew a cross in the dirt with his foot.   The POW and his newfound Christian friend then celebrated some moments of silence together.   The guard then erased the cross with his foot, and left the cell, locking the door behind him.

What a great story!   Such a profound and moving message of survival and perseverance- odd that it did not see the light of day for 40 years, huh?

Well, actually, it did- in the The Gulag Archipelago, by the recently-deceased Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

Why Sniper Fire II?   Obviously, this ships-passing-in-the-night guard, or "gun guard" as JMac called him, ultimately got promoted to First Sniper, was assigned to Bosnia, and was the very same person shooting at Hillary and Chelsea on the airport tarmac in 1996.   

Monday, August 18, 2008

T-Shirts... & Hillary.

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I love my custom t-shirts. I can get them in just a few days, and be involved in current events.

I have one that says "Left Wing" with a hockey player- which is both my politics and my hockey position.

I have "Winters, where our Nuts hate our Fruits", with a gun sight underneath.

"The last guy elected from Illinois worked out just fine" and "John McCain, more position changes than the Kama Sutra" are two of my other favorites- although I am not going to wear the former in Woodland anymore. I get asked too many questions- I guess I should have put the answer on the back.

That brings me to the one that has now fallen out of favor: "Finally, a Clinton that knows how to pull out..."

I was wrong.

I missed Mike Malloy's rant about PUMA the other night, but apparently it was hilarious. He said PUMA stands for Party Unity My Ass, which makes it Party Unity My Ass PAC. Beautiful...

In any event, I was wrong, and my shirt will be relegated to the closet- at least until after the convention.

It's so crystal clear right now that she and hers know NOTHING about pulling out gracefully or graciously.

PS- If John McCain hears about my t-shirt, and that "wrinkly white haired guy" starts talking about the Kama Sutra, I will poke a stick in my eye!!!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Ellen...

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It what apparently was a lovely ceremony, Ellen DeGeneres married actress Portia de Rossi this weekend. Obviously, their first child will be named Generous Portians.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Fascists...

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I have been out at garage sales this morning, as is my Saturday morning habit.

I got to listen to a rerun of Lynn Samuels ranting about nominating Hillary, and how she has all the super-delegates listed on her website so people can call and urge them to vote for Hillary instead of the guy who won fair and square. Maybe she should just go to work for Fux News, where she can tell the McCainstream Media Lies with reckless abandon. Alex Bennett can join her.

Maybe there is something, after all, to the rumor that Jews won't vote for Obama.

While I was gone, The California Proposition 8 people stopped by, and left a flyer on my door. Sadly, I take three of the Four Musketeers with me when I go on Saturdays, or those Fascists would not have gained access to my property.

Handwritten on the flyer was a message that they were sorry that they missed me.

Uh, no they weren't. My patience is done on this issue, and it would have been ugly.

Their pamphlet says that 61% of Californians voted for marriage as being between a man and a woman, and that four "San Francisco-based judges" changed that.

The California Supreme Court is based in San Francisco, but their distortionate pandering against the people who live in one of the greatest cities in the world is obvious- and the four judges were Republican appointees who said it was unconstitutional to discriminate.

Wow, what a revolutionary concept.

61%, huh? It was more than that who supported slavery in the South, more than that who supported the internment of the Japanese during WW II, more than that who supported the treatment of the Native Americans- get it? Get it?

YOU ARE FASCIST, BIGOTED SCUM.

YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN HITLER.

It is a Constitution's job to protect minorities from people like you. You should be very proud of yourselves.

How far through Mein Kempf have you gotten? (Assuming you can read; if not, I am sure it's available on AudioBooks)

Surely, it's on to Das Kapital and The Writings of Chairman Mao after that! And I will call you Surely anytime I choose to do so...

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Clintonistas...


How would we react if Laura Bush decided she wanted to run for Senate next year, but realized she could not win in Texas. So, she packs up her carpetbag, and moves to, say, Alabama, where her chances of being elected are almost 100%- all the while hoping to get a shot at the White House in a few years, wanting to become the first husband/wife team to separately lead the free world.

Exactly.

And, to make it even better, along the way she decided she was the "prodigal daughter", the saviorette of Democracy, and that nobody better get in the way of her march to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Wow! I think I was having a nightmare.

Maybe not...

Hillary Clinton is getting her way, getting her name entered into nomination at the Convention, distracting attention from Barack. We also have the Clintonistas headlining the news programs, talking about rallys, parties, urging delegates to vote their "consciences", and "do the right thing" for Hillary.

Barack Obama arrogant? Compared to whom? There has never been anything like this.

Were all you whiners voting for a gender or voting on issues? "That wascally Bawack Obama beat our bewoved candidate, so now we're going to vote for that wrinkwy old man. We will show you!"

Inspirational, indeed.

I am tired of hearing she got more votes- she didn't.

Michigan and Florida broke the rules, and were told they would not count. Obama was not even on the ballot in MI.

Many caucuses don't track vote numbers, so they are not included in totals.

Such arrogance, such selfishness, such entitlement...

And what about John Kerry and Al Gore? If anybody has a right to whine, to scream, to yell, THEY do. Have they? Hmmm. I'm still a HUGE fan of the 19th Amendment, but not quite what I once was...

Let's fast forward to March, 2009. We have a new president. Let's say it's a 100% old white guy, and not a 50% young white guy.

Does anyone think that Barack Obama would whine or pout, or should even think of doing so? No.

Given the dissatisfaction in the country, the only way Barack Obama loses this election is race- pure and simple. If we have people who vote race over their own self-interests, it could indeed very well happen.

If it does tragically and heartbreakingly occur, we all know Barack Obama will pick himself up, and start the march to 2012.

And, with four more years of experience, he will then have the level of experience that Hillary has now- that which she has touted as being so superior to his current level of experience.

If it does happen, my U. S. flags will be flown upside down, as we will truly be in distress as a country and as a people.

Today at Rotary, my friend Mike Kimes asked me why Barack is considered to be black. It was a very thoughtful question, and I have duly given it much thought- and I don't like the answer.

I like the idea of electing a minority or female president during my lifetime. Not as a matter of policy, of course, but just as a sign of progress.
Of course, I would never vote for Elizabeth Dole or J. C. Watts.

But in thinking about Mike's question, I came to the conclusion that we have placed ourselves in the same position as the people who have enslaved or discriminated against people all over the world, throughout history: if you have one drop of Hebrew blood, you are a Jew; if you have one drop of African American blood, you are black.

Certainly, I have gone to the extreme end of the argument. Yes, for many or most of us, the motivation for our conclusion is different than that of the slave owners and Nazis.

The answer, though, is the same: defying the mathematics, a small percentage of "different" looms much larger than a larger percentage of "same" or "normal".


Sunday, August 10, 2008

Hate Mail P.S.

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The more I have thought about it, the sender of any anonymous "hate" mail is a coward. Perhaps you were a guard at Auschwitz in another life, or the bus driver for Rosa Parks, or whatever. The bottom line is you are a coward, and your homophobic drivel is a disgrace- I am sure your God is very proud of you. I would like to be there when she judges you, you cretinous piece of shit.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

More Hate Mail...

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I got more anti-gay hate mail today- plain white envelope, no return address. They could have at least used pink!

There was a picture of a heterosexual married couple, with the suggestion that I stare at the picture until I "get it".

I'm too busy staring at other pictures right now- actually it's a collage.

There is a black and white picture of Jews standing behind barbed wire at Auschwitz. There is a picture of some Negro slaves working in a cotton field. There is a picture of some Japanese-Americans standing behind a fence amidst the Tule fog here in the Central Valley in the 1940s. There is a picture of some women marching just to try to get the right to vote. There is also a picture of some Mexican workers toiling in the fields in 110-degree heat, and lastly there is a picture of Rosa Parks sitting in the back of the bus.

I get it. I got it a long, long time ago.

There were some biblical quotes, too, but I didn't read them. They are lining the bird cages.

My research can find only one time that Jesus referred to gay men: when he suggested the turning of the other cheek. Had to be, right?

I am so looking forward to the Rapture- I can use the peace and quiet.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Please deliver us... Part II

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Now comes word that Hillary is trying to find some way to "soothe" her supporters at the Convention, and has not ruled out having her name entered into nomination. Apparently, after they are sufficiently "soothed", they can then all get behind Obama Nation... That's mighty considerate of them.

And do not give me that 18 million votes crap, either- the only way Hillary got more votes than Barack is if you discount the Caucuses that did not tally individual votes. And despite her claims to the contrary, she lost the delegate tally in both Nevada and Texas.

Is this really the image that the Democratic women of this country want to portray? Is this not exactly the WRONG message, that we need some kind of special transition for the bruised egos of the fairer sex?

It's bad enough that they gave John McCain ammunition with their cannibalistic excrement when the nomination was still in play, but to drag this thing out any longer proves one thing, and one thing only: the best person for the job this time out, the person with the honor, integrity, and TEAM committment we need, was, indeed, the best MAN.

Please deliver us...

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If Bill Clinton had any idea of following in Jimmy Carter's footsteps
in trying to become the second greatest former president in history, it's too late.

Watching his performance in the recent ABC interview was sad and outrageous at the same time. Asked the simple question of whether or not Barack Obama was qualified to be president, he wandered all over it, and never did answer.

Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992 because many of the greatest statesmen of that time did not run, deeming King George I unbeatable after the Kuwait war "victory". Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown stepped up anyway, but Bill Clinton came from
, with no intent to insult Arkansans, nowhere to win it all. Paul Tsongas didn't whine, and neither did Jerry Brown.

Barack Obama has come from nowhere to capture the attention and hopes of millions of Americans who want change, integrity, and a different way of doing things.

Remember, Bill Clinton had the chance to do all these same things after HIS election, but instead he began running for re-election after his inauguration, and practically sprinted to the right.

So, we find ourselves with a bitter former President- bitter that his prohibitive-favorite carpetbagger wife was not able to reach her goals, in no small way because of him, and bitter because the "real" first black man may be elected president in November- a man who shows all signs of being able to shred the Clinton legacy by comparison.

Go away, Bill. If there's a God, maybe she'll send you a vision to go join a Convent- great for you, great for Democrats, great for the world- not so good for the Convent, I know, but they are used to sacrifice. Otherwise, change your voter registration, and be done with it.