Waxing Political

I apologize in advance for the possible triteness of this post. I am a little grumpy and that tends to intensify the causticity of my rantings.

I noticed yesterday that one of my friends on Facebook has joined a group called Stop Hillary Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary). I am not particularly a Hillary Clinton fan, but I cannot help but wonder what the purpose of such a group could be. In my opinion it would be much more prudent to put any effort toward supporting whatever candidate you believe in than to join some organization dedicated to preventing the candidacy of somebody you don't like. I tend to wonder how many of the people that would belong to such a group know the reason why exactly they are so violently against Hillary Clinton. It would seem to me that there are people in both parties in much more prominent political positions than Senator Clinton who are guilty or corruptions, failures, and atrocities she has not even approached. Anyway... I guess it is all about what makes you feel hapy about yourself.

I personally like Obama. I liked Bill Richardson too, but he was obviously a long, long, long shot. The thing that really got me for Obama was his statement that he would engage nations like Iran and Cuba in dialog. I know that our policy of thumbing our noses at countries and saying we won't talk to them on any terms but our own has worked so well in the past. Especially when we are "friends" and have valuable trade agreements with such bastions of freedom and protectors of human rights as China, Paki(let's prosecute rape victims for adultery)stan and Saudi (don't even get me started) Arabia. I guess Caveman (walk drunkenly and flail madly about with a 40 pound club) Diplomacy has worked marvelously for us the last few years.

Anyway, enough. US Foreign Policy always gets me going. Who needs consistency, right.

Have a nice day.