The New Road

Obama's Desk Is Dirty

Obama's desk is dirty! Oh no! It's the end of the world as we know it!

Give me a break. The Clinton campaign is overreaching on this dirty desk comment by a mile. I love Obama's retort: "If I had gone last I would have known what the game was. And then I could have said, 'Well, ya know, I like to help old ladies across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's terrible.'" Exactly. And what I like most about his retort is how completely human it is. It's as if we had one of those silly 'say something about yourself' games at work and the first person says something serious, only to have the last person say something funny and make the first person look like an ass.

Clearly Obama is smart enough of a guy to know the pat answer to 'What is the worst thing about yourself?' But I think he was having some fun and showing his human side when he gave the answer he did, and that's refreshing to me. I'd like a little honesty in my politicians for once. What I wouldn't pay for a candidate to walk up to a crowd and say; "You know what, you are the fifth crowd I've talked to today and I'm really tired. You would be too. Now I can give the same old speech you've heard me give a thousand times before, or we can just talk like regular people. Whaddy'a say?"

I tire of the Clinton campaign. These recent hijinks with the union stuff in Nevada is just more of the same down and dirty politics that we have seen for years. Can't we just debate the damn issues and let people vote their minds in peace?

One of my favorite movies is "Primary Colors". In it John Travolta, who is clearly playing Clinton, goes up in front of a bunch of steelworkers and tells them that their skills are completely irrelevant and they won't have jobs in a couple of years unless they retrain. Then he talks about how he knows how tough it is to work a full day, then take care of the kids, and that it's all you can do to just 'gork out in front of the tube'. I love that kind of honesty. I'm sorry to see that the Clinton camp we have now isn't like the Clinton's of old.

Speaking of which, Dennis Kucinich, I love you baby, but drop out of the freaking race already. You aren't going to win. And suing everything that moves just makes you look like an ass. Either get to freaking campaigning, or hit the bricks. This whining about your circumstances is nauseating. Your short, you've got big ears, your voice is nasally, and you constantly bitch about shit. That's enough to rule you out in 2008. You were on the ballot in Michigan where it didn't freaking matter and you still only got 3%. Go home. And tell your rabid fans to knock off the extremist shit. It makes us look bad.