Everyone's a Fighter
24/05/08 07:38
I am so sick and tired of hearing the press play up Hillary's "I'm staying in because I'm a fighter" comments. Oh, and Ted Kennedy is going to do just fine because he's a fighter. That somehow gives them the right to go on and we should all get behind them and forget that the party already has a presumptive nominee. In Ted's case, his fight will soon end at death's door step. I'm sure he'll cross that threshold with arms swinging. Hillary will fight on as well since, as she says in her own words, anything can happen. She went on to remind everyone that Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June of 68 so anything can happen and she wants to be there when it does. I think her comments were designed to unleash the dogs of hell on Barack Obama and it was a call to all the nut jobs from the mountains of West Virginia to the swamps of Arkansas to arm themselves once and for all and rid the world of the one obstacle standing in Hillary Clinton's path to the White House. Let there be no doubt about her motivation. If we've learned anything about the Clinton's, we've learned that they will do anything to get what they want. Now that what was hers has been taken away, she will fight with claws extended to the very end. Even if it means that her party loses in the end. It is and always has been about the Clinton's. It is clearly time for the remaining super delegates to step in and end this fight.
How is it that children can be so surly sometimes? And to think that they will and do from time to time turn their disaffection towards those who have spent a lifetime loving and caring for them to a fault. When a mom who has loved her son and has uttered not a negative word or raised a hand to him since the day he came home from the hospital dares to raise his voice to her, where does that come from? No mother or parent deserves such disrespect and must furthermore resist and push back against such hostility so as to discourage it in its infancy. I can attest to this mother's love going back as far as is necessary to make the point. She has only wanted what was best for her son and to get anything less in return diminishes everything she has worked so hard to achieve. One may be inclined to think that this is a customary sort of impetuousness. The kind you find in children coming of age in a day and age when pressures of various and sundry sorts sully the landscape of adolescence. The prisms of pleasantry and promise found in children gives way to something infinitely less idyllic as hormones and belligerence emerge. While there is a tendency to want to quash this type of behavior underfoot, perhaps it is best dealt with as a transient problem and one requiring as much patience on our part as is humanly possible. No one ever warned us of the terrible teens but I can tell you that it is just as if not more trying than the terrible two's. I wish naps were still an option.
It's hard to tell where things are going this weekend but there seems to be enough time on the clock to do what we need to do with the long holiday weekend looming. The weather seems to be taking a turn for the better here on the coast and where it looked like rain early in the day it is now partly sunny and promising. Cool too. Did I tell you that Nancy is having a yard sale today? Our neighbor was having one and asked if we would consider having one as well. We have so much stuff that we need to get rid of that it makes perfect sense for us to jump on that bandwagon. I'm not a yard sale kind of guy so I'm in hiding while Nancy hawks our wares in the driveway. There is so much of Ev's stuff from tee shirts that he has never worn to skates that he has used maybe once or twice. The first thing to go was a cordless drill which she was selling for her mom. It went for a cool $50 clams. I purposely did not want to sell any of my Mac stuff although I have cords, keyboards, computers, and monitors up the wazoo. Most of it is pre-USB so ancient in my estimation. I do think Nancy will make a go of it with the event. She is very particular about everything so I suspect that she will rake in a lot of cold hard cash today. All the better to fill our gas tanks, send our child to college, supplement our summer vacation fund, and if there is anything left at the end of the day, to sit down with a cold one.
Before I forget, I think American Idol got it right this year with David Cook. He is and was outstanding. A righteous dude. A right choice for a change.
How is it that children can be so surly sometimes? And to think that they will and do from time to time turn their disaffection towards those who have spent a lifetime loving and caring for them to a fault. When a mom who has loved her son and has uttered not a negative word or raised a hand to him since the day he came home from the hospital dares to raise his voice to her, where does that come from? No mother or parent deserves such disrespect and must furthermore resist and push back against such hostility so as to discourage it in its infancy. I can attest to this mother's love going back as far as is necessary to make the point. She has only wanted what was best for her son and to get anything less in return diminishes everything she has worked so hard to achieve. One may be inclined to think that this is a customary sort of impetuousness. The kind you find in children coming of age in a day and age when pressures of various and sundry sorts sully the landscape of adolescence. The prisms of pleasantry and promise found in children gives way to something infinitely less idyllic as hormones and belligerence emerge. While there is a tendency to want to quash this type of behavior underfoot, perhaps it is best dealt with as a transient problem and one requiring as much patience on our part as is humanly possible. No one ever warned us of the terrible teens but I can tell you that it is just as if not more trying than the terrible two's. I wish naps were still an option.
It's hard to tell where things are going this weekend but there seems to be enough time on the clock to do what we need to do with the long holiday weekend looming. The weather seems to be taking a turn for the better here on the coast and where it looked like rain early in the day it is now partly sunny and promising. Cool too. Did I tell you that Nancy is having a yard sale today? Our neighbor was having one and asked if we would consider having one as well. We have so much stuff that we need to get rid of that it makes perfect sense for us to jump on that bandwagon. I'm not a yard sale kind of guy so I'm in hiding while Nancy hawks our wares in the driveway. There is so much of Ev's stuff from tee shirts that he has never worn to skates that he has used maybe once or twice. The first thing to go was a cordless drill which she was selling for her mom. It went for a cool $50 clams. I purposely did not want to sell any of my Mac stuff although I have cords, keyboards, computers, and monitors up the wazoo. Most of it is pre-USB so ancient in my estimation. I do think Nancy will make a go of it with the event. She is very particular about everything so I suspect that she will rake in a lot of cold hard cash today. All the better to fill our gas tanks, send our child to college, supplement our summer vacation fund, and if there is anything left at the end of the day, to sit down with a cold one.
Before I forget, I think American Idol got it right this year with David Cook. He is and was outstanding. A righteous dude. A right choice for a change.