Say No to Sycophantism

So...I was able to get my laptop inside, but for some reason my wi-fi had no signal, and the MSNBC folks of course refused to share their WPA key. In any case, Edwards was his usual charismatic self. I had a chance to talk to him after the show and I asked him about the war powers act and detention without charges, and his characterization of this was summed up by one word: "wrong". When I asked him if he would push for repeal of those sections of the WPA that permit detention-without-charges, he was a little more vague, citing that he didn't know the particulars of the legislation involved. I was a bit disapointed, I was hoping that perhaps he would have taken more notice of the official suspension of the writ of habeus corpus, but hey, I'll ask him again the next time I get a chance to talk to him on campus.

Now, Elizabeth Edwards to me did not look like a woman who has practiced law for 17 years in her life. She looked so extremely down-to-earth in a homely oversized blue cardigan and wrinkled black khakis, I don't know if this is a cultivated image or one that is natural to her, but it's the absolute anti-Hillary (who to me looks like a painted doll), and I love it. I still am not sure if Senator Edwards is ready to be President, but now I can safely say that if it's not Gore/Feingold '08, it ought to be Gore/Edwards '08.

Tweety's College Tour hits the UNC campus today, and after my physics final at noon I will attend the live broadcast (guest is John Edwards) and live-blog it (if the tools let me bring my lappy in). Now I know Chris Matthews has been demonized in our circles for the past few years, and more often than not rightly so, and he did try to portray Olbermann as a community-college-graduate-putz (Olbermann graduated from Cornell), but what the hell, I'll be there just to see Tweety's fat face.

Al Gore. Russ Feingold. People think Al Gore can't win. People are wrong. If he runs, and I think he will, despite public protestations to the contrary thus far, he will win the nomination, and he will win the presidency.

As a footnote, I used to wonder why the 2000 election was so close. I mean, Gore clearly was a better candidate than W, no matter which way you looked at the two. W was a drunk who had recently sobered up, while Gore had been a public figure for the past 20+ years. I think a big problem for Gore was Joe Lieberman, who didn't bring much of anything to the campaign, and who has since been consistently wrong about the most important decisions, namely the Iraq war, the Iraq war, and the Iraq war.

Feingold has been one of the few democratic senators who has consistently been opposed to the war, and we all know Gore's public denunciation of a possible war with Iraq in 2002. It's going to be an anti-war election folks. Time to bring in some real anti-war candidates, not John Kerry, and certainly not that malleable clay doll Hillary Clinton.