of 2003.
Every day I read something, or see some pundit make a comment on tv that makes me flash back to the second half of 2003.
Back then you couldn't turn around without hearing someone dismiss Kerry as "dead" or "on life support" - so offensive. They dismissed him then, and they dismiss him today. But I want to share a comment I read over at Steve Gilliard's blog tonight. The post is wonderful:
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/12/silly-season.html The Silly Season
I have news for you, despite the popularity polls, there isn't a chance in hell Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama wins a primary, forget being president.
Harold Ford ran as tight a race as possible and still lost.
And people liked him.
Now, they like Obama, but he should heed the counsel of Colin Powell. He was vastly more popular than Obama, across racial lines, had a real record to run on, and the minute people started seriously talking about him running for office, they were planning to dig dirt up on him and his wife.
Powell realized that he wasn't going to be president very quickly.
Hillary Clinton is hated by more people than liked. Someone said that she's got the black vote locked up, and I just laughed. What has Hillary Clinton done for black people? They may like her, but she's not exactly Bobby Kennedy. She has been mute on the Bell killing...
The comment:
http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/p/commentsn/blog_id=90000045368_and_blog_entry_id=116593873544014060#8776553 Last night the daughter asked me if I thought Obama would be a good president.
I thought about it for a second, and said that, while I have nothing against him personally, I think the next president is going to have to be the most qualified, most serious, most committed person on the planet, because the problems we face now are only going to be worse in two years.
I thought Obama didn't have the requisite experience.
"What about vice-president?" she asked.
"Well, that would be ok, I suppose," said I.
What I didn't say? Hillary...nonononononononononono...
-- merciless
Who does that sound like to you? Yeah, to me too.