This isn't much of a diary, but based upon all of the April Fools Diaries, it at least asks a substantive question:  "Has anyone seen Pat Buchanan on MSNBC this week?"  

I admit, I don't watch MSNBC around the clock, but he's missing from Scarborough and Gregory.

Maybe he is just on vacation -- but I can't help wondering if maybe, just maybe, he's been quietly put out to pasture.

Wishful thinking, I know...

March 24, 2008

I have been watching MSNBC for about four years now.  I started watching Olbermann, and because I liked him so much, I also jumped aboard for the rest of the shows (except for Tucker, I never could stomach his bimbocity).

I have regularly TIVO'd Morning Joe (Imus, before that), Tweety and Countdown.  

Tweety is all over the board.   He is so inconsistent, that you never know what he will say.  That was always part of the fun... like the time he had a "thrill running up his leg" or whatever the hell it was he said.

But Pat Buchanan's comments in his blogosphere diatribe "A Brief for Whitey", were so outrageous, so vile and racist that I vowed never to watch the network again until he's gone.

Question:  What is the difference between Obama Campaign offices and Starbucks coffee locations?

Answer:  Starbucks locations will be will be closed for part of today for retraining of personnel.

In the Colorado democratic caucus contest that is now ancient history, the Obama Campaign opened a total of twelve volunteer offices in the state prior to Super Tuesday.

On January 26, 2008, the Rocky Mountain News Reported the following:

Tyler Chafee, Clinton's Colorado campaign director, said opening offices throughout the state isn't a good indicator of how caucus-goers will respond. "Clearly, they've taken the Starbucks approach to the campaign," he said of the Obama camp. "Pretty soon, they'll have one on every corner.

Peggy Noonan said a couple of weeks ago that George Bush has destroyed the Republican party.

George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.

For what it's worth, in today's WSJ, she says that Obama is winning, and if nominated by the Democratic party will win the election in the fall in a landslide.

I am a Precinct Captain for Barack Obama, but like so many of his supporters,  I am relatively new to the Democratic party, I have never been involved in a political campaign,  and I have never been to a caucus.

Even from this perspective, I am stunned at the number of registered Democrats who have no stinking clue about what is going on.

I thought that this job as a Precint Captain would be easy.  I expected that I would call registered Democrats, and they would tell me that they support either Hillary or Barack.  I thought my responsibility would be to keep a list of all Barack supporters and make sure that they all come out to caucus on Tuesday.  I expected to have to make reminder calls Monday night and possibly provide child care. End of story.

What is actually happening is shocking.  Maybe those who have been involved in grass-roots politics for a long time will have no trouble comprehending this, but I amazed.  

Read about it below the fold.

I seem to be experiencing the psychological phenomenon of transference from my previous contempt of George Bush to my new found contempt of Bill Clinton.

It all started last week when we were watching Olberman's "Bushed" segment, and I realized that I felt nothing, absolutely nothing, for or  about GWB.  I'm over him.  Over the anger, over the hostility. No more will my blood pressure rise 30 points when his image comes on the air.  I'm done.  Finished.  

At the same time our 20 year old daughter said, "Hmmm.  George Bush.   Haven't thought about that guy for quite awhile..."

That's when it hit me.  Right or wrong, I have transferred all of my angst from George to Bill.

Hillary Clinton recently unveiled her economic stimulus plan, promising to
take bold action to stem tide of foreclosures, including a 90-day moratorium on subprime foreclosures and an automatic rate freeze on subprime mortgages of at least five years.  Hillary has also begun referring to a 90 day moratorium on foreclosures in her stump speech.

Hillary is constantly reminding us of her "35 years experience" in governing, so it seems fitting that I would introduce myself in this discussion as someone with "20 years experience" in the foreclosure industry.  

Hillary's ninety day moratorium on foreclosures, is quite possibly, the most idiotic economic plan proposed by any member of either party.  

Seriously.

Apparently, Bill has now compiled a list of attacks by Obama.  This is the CNN report about it.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."   Proverbs 29:18.

In 1994, I timidly tendered my resignation to a small Denver law firm to launch my own real estate investment company.

The response from the Firm's senior partners was predictible:  "It's a dream."  "You'll never make it."  "You'll be back in six months, begging for your old job."  "You don't have the experience.  You'll starve to death."

News Flash:  It's 2008, and my dream has been a reality for more than a decade.   I've never looked back.  Not for one minute.

We're there tough times?  You bet.  But focus, commitment and dedication far outweighed my experience and business savvy.

Seeing Bill Clinton wagging his finger at the dreamersthis morning took me back to that place long ago, when the really smart people with grey hair and experience were dead wrong.  

The most disparaged decade in American culture is always the one the just preceded us.   Just ask my teenagers.  To them the 50’s and 60’s are retro, the 70’s and 80’s, to a lesser extent, cool.  Their music is most telling. They love the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Who.   But Nirvana?  No way. Un huh. No Seattle Grunge. Too 90’s.

I am intrigued by the constant comparisons of Barack Obama to JFK.   While we want hope for the future, we don’t ignore the past – just the recent past.  

The Clintons argue successfully that most democrats were satisfied with the Clinton years, but they fail to realize that during that same time period, most Americans were also satisfied with dial up internet, Roseanne and Windows ’95.

I've been crying all week.   Last week too, for that matter.

The cumulative effect of what has happened to my country is really starting to sink in.  

A couple of weeks ago, I listened to my husband explain to our teenagers that they had lost their habeas corpus.  He spoke softly, using the same tone and inflection that one uses to break the news of a sudden death of a beloved family member, and, of course, the tears welled up in my eyes again.