With all the news this past week, there has been a great deal of focus on things that just don't matter. Here are a few examples:
1. Were the election results good for Hillary Clinton or bad for her? Really? Hillary is at the moment the only viable Democrat candidate for 2016. This is not 2008 when there were alternatives, including one to whom she eventually lost. Right now, the Democrats have no one else. I mean, are they going to run Joe Biden? His campaign theme song would be the music from 1000 Clowns. Will there be a groundswell of support for Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor with no meaningful experience who falsely claimed to be part Cherokee in order to advance her career? Surely, even the Democrats wouldn't go there. What about Martin O'Malley from Maryland? His state's voters were so happy with his administration as governor that they just rejected his hand-picked successor and elected a Republican, IN MARYLAND of all places! So, whether or not the results were good or bad for Hillary, she's all they got.
2. Were Democrats right to distance themselves from president Obama or not? There will never again be a midterm election with Obama in the White House. (Yay, he is in the last part of his term.) Does it really matter then?
3. Obama and the Congressional leadership had lunch together yesterday. To be fair, the fact of the luncheon is newsworthy since Obama has disdained to meet with Congressional leaders for most of his time in office. But all the stories about who said what to whom is meaningless garbage. We need to see what these folks do, not what they say in meetings. We have just gone through six years of a president who thinks that what he says is more important than what he does. Hopefully, after last Tuesday, he now knows that the American people do not agree with that position. There really is truth in the saying that actions speak louder than words.
1. Were the election results good for Hillary Clinton or bad for her? Really? Hillary is at the moment the only viable Democrat candidate for 2016. This is not 2008 when there were alternatives, including one to whom she eventually lost. Right now, the Democrats have no one else. I mean, are they going to run Joe Biden? His campaign theme song would be the music from 1000 Clowns. Will there be a groundswell of support for Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor with no meaningful experience who falsely claimed to be part Cherokee in order to advance her career? Surely, even the Democrats wouldn't go there. What about Martin O'Malley from Maryland? His state's voters were so happy with his administration as governor that they just rejected his hand-picked successor and elected a Republican, IN MARYLAND of all places! So, whether or not the results were good or bad for Hillary, she's all they got.
2. Were Democrats right to distance themselves from president Obama or not? There will never again be a midterm election with Obama in the White House. (Yay, he is in the last part of his term.) Does it really matter then?
3. Obama and the Congressional leadership had lunch together yesterday. To be fair, the fact of the luncheon is newsworthy since Obama has disdained to meet with Congressional leaders for most of his time in office. But all the stories about who said what to whom is meaningless garbage. We need to see what these folks do, not what they say in meetings. We have just gone through six years of a president who thinks that what he says is more important than what he does. Hopefully, after last Tuesday, he now knows that the American people do not agree with that position. There really is truth in the saying that actions speak louder than words.
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