Hillary/Kucinich/nonsense

This is Morialekafa's blog number 1000! I had no idea when I started this it would run on for so long. I think the best of Morialekafa was in the beginning when no one knew about it or read it, and before it became so political. I confess that now I have no idea who reads it, how many read it, where, why, or whatever (except for two or three individuals who seem to be pretty regular). Whoever reads it should be aware by now that it is not meant to be a scientific tome with footnotes and such. It is merely an opinion piece which by its very nature is sometimes exaggerated, openly partisan, and always open to reasonable criticism.

Bubblehead: Let's say there is an "enemy" country. And let's say there is a covert CIA agent responsible for trying to understand whatever evil intentions that enemy may be up to. And let's also say that for whatever reason that covert agent is publicly exposed in such a way as to make their work useless. Does that not benefit the enemy? And does it not constitute treason by any ordinary understanding of that term? I am by no means the first person to call the outing of Valerie Plame an act of treason and I have no reason to believe that is not an accurate accusation. And it is certainly no secret by now that Cheney, Libby, Rove, and others were responsible for it. At least you are willing to admit it was "wrong." How are we to decide just how wrong it really was? And if it was wrong should anything be done about it?

Dennis Kucinich is a very bright fellow who has well thought out positions on bringing the troops home, universal health care, the impeachment of Cheney, peace, and other things the MSM seem to think are inconsequential. Why else would they have asked him a ridiculous question about UFO's? To his credit, as usual, he tried to answer honestly: yes, he saw an unidentified object. He was not permitted time to go beyond that admission. Perhaps it did have some effect on him, whatever it might have been. As he tried to point out, Jimmy Carter and thousands of other people have seen unidentified flying objects. That fact was simply ignored in their rush to paint him as some kind of "flake." Yes, he's a vegan. And yes, he's married to a gorgeous woman much younger than he is. And yes, he's only five feet, six inches tall. And of course he knows he not going to be elected President as the MSM is going to see to it that it could never happen. But I bet they would be surprised at how many American citizens would vote for him were he to be the candidate. In fact, he's an island of sanity in a surreal world of dishonesty, greed, opportunism, and utter nonsense.

Hillary Clinton is not my favorite candidate by a long shot. However, I feel it necessary to defend her in the same way I would defend Kucinich. In spite of the attempts to claim she stumbled in the last Democratic "debate," there is no more substance to that than to Kucinich's attempt to explain his experience with UFO's. In this completely stupid format of so-called debates no one is ever given an opportunity to completely explain themselves. Thus any remark can be pounced upon by the nitwits among us to denigrate anyone. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that what Hillary would have said, given the opportunity, was that she supported Spitzer's attempt to do something about a serious problem, not necessarily that she supported the precise legislation involved. She clearly did not intend to say she supported the precise legislation involved, but, rather, the attempt to do something. These debates are a terrible way to find out anything about the candidates as they are never allowed anything more than the briefest of "sound bites" which can then be used against them as if they were actually meaningful in and of themselves. We would be far better off if each candidate was interviewed by the same person for an hour or more, period. No more 30 second answers to absurd questions, often posed for no other reason that to make the candidate look ridiculous. What is someone supposed to do with a question like, "do you guarantee that Iran will not make a nuclear bomb while you are President?" Or "will you promise to bring all the troops home within the next five minutes," or some such absurdity.

The MSM comes across as a bunch of jackals surrounding the candidates and looking for a quick kill, whereas in fact they are a bunch of castrated domestic beasts who will ultimately do the bidding of the corporate masters who own them. Hillary is their anointed candidate. The big bucks from the big players are now going to Hillary. They don't invest a lot in losers. You think it matters what you think? Fogetaboutit.

LKBIQ:
"The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth."
Sir Winston Churchill