The Politics of an Idiot

History on the Horizon

Did you read the Los Angeles Times this morning, and the article about Colin Powell's chief of staff, and the claims that he made?(Ex Powell Chief hits Cheney, Rumsfeld).

If you've been watching NBC's West Wing long enough, you can see through the banter that the office of former Secretary of State sees Powell as a likely candidate to run for office in 2008. No, he never said that in the article, but if you follow the string I show you, you may hear that as loudly as I did.

Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's top aid said some pretty harsh words about Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, torn between calling him " . . . a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard." As well as painting the curret administration as being rather diabolical in it's thinking. It is clear that Powell's people are jumping on the bandwagon of dissent to distance themselves from "Those Bush Republicans", while trying to maintain party loyalty. Why would Powell's people do this now? Why would Powells' right hand man say such harsh things so publicly. What would he possibly have to gain by basically saying "We were against it all along" ( in reference to the handling of the Iraq War, rather than the war itself)?

That, my friends, is the magic tight-rope, and Powell's people are riding it with grace.If you acceept the concept he's pushing, that it's not necessarily the War that is the problem these days but it is quickly being redefined as the HANDLING of the war that is at issue right now. Between Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell, who do you think might be more qualified to run a war? And yet, Powell left the game early, and every American knows that.

From here to the white house . . .
Many TV watching Americans right now are getting their minds wrapped around the idea of a woman president (Have you been watching Commander in Chief?) I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I do believe in the power of subiminal messages. It may not have been planned, but I do think the Clinton's were nothing less than giddy over the popularity of that new hit show.
Hillary is quietly waiting in the wings, and since her hostile takeover of the New York senators office years ago, her aspirations to be back in the white house were obvious.

And now the connection . . .
I think the only thing that can outshine the "First Woman Candidate" in 2008, is the first Black Candidate, and the Republicans have that in Colin Powell. Since Powell's office is working so well at cleaning him from the schrapnel the Bush administration has so artfully smothered most of their party in, Powell comes out of this mess squeaky clean, looking like the ideal Republican candidate: Experienced in war, foreign policy, and the White House, Soft spoken, Fresh, Republican and a minority. (Hello, even Dem's like him)

With that in mind, now is the perfect time for Powell's people to set up a little hitory for him, freeing him from the slander and anger about past White house office mistakes.
Can he possibly have his cake and eat it too? Can he be involved in the planning of the Iraq War, have years of experience in the White house, and yet NOT come away from it all scandoulous and dirty? I suppose he can. If the Republican party doesn't see this as a great opportunity to keep their hold on the executive branch, they are simply not paying attention.

Mark my words, if Hillary is the Dem ticket in 2008, then Powell is the ticket for the GOP.

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I'm two-and-ohh!
If you look back on numerous posts over the last year you'll find quite a few references to my bathroom, which (as was discovered by our contractor during our foundation repair work last January) was in dire need for some serious repair, mainly the floor, which was cut away to make access for plumbing updates, sometime after January 1989.

" I think the Bastard is Lying!"

I wrote The Bastard a long tedious and absolutely annoying letter, requesting funds to cover the costs of the bathroom repair which I completely expected him to ignore, which he did. Good. Now I can take him to court.

In a case of my word against his, I showed that the repairs occurred during Mr. Coleman The Bastard's tenure, and that he was resposible for letting me know I had a hole in my bathroom floor the size of a ripe watermelon. Mr. Coleman The Bastard simply said he had no idea such a hole existed, and that the bathroom was in the same condition when he bought it (in 1976) as when he sold it. As far as the newspaper in the wall, he had no idea how THAT got there.

Last week the judge wrote a letter saying that she finds in favor of the plaintiff. That would be me, basically stating that Mr. Coleman wasn't being completely truthful (The Lying Bastard!)
This concludes a successful year of "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and let this be a warning to all you meanies out there- Don't Mess With Me!

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Celebrity Sightings/6 Degrees of separation/Kharmic Universal Dissonance

Picture Us, having a nice dinner at Casita Del Campo and up walk two friends we havent seen in a while- Johnny and Scott. They said they were skipping coffee and leaving because the woman near them, who was doing loud silly Roseannne Barr impersonations, actually turned out to be the real article. Who knew?

We were in a booth behind a glass window, we stared at her like a zoo oddity for the duration of our dessert.

Days later at the AFI Festival Tom Arnold brushed past us with a beautiful woman on his arm. Apparantly his Wife!
What a Coinky-dink.
I wanted to shout out "Hey Tom, saw your Ex stuffing her face with a burrito the other night, but you're looking Svelt Man, Yeah! Svelt!" But alas, I didn't.Years of fine breeding and a boyfriend who knows how to punch helped keep this camper well within the boundries of poor behavior and questionable judgement in public- This Time!

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