1. The Debate
I know you want to hear about the debate. My ONLY direct comment on the debate is that ABC should be ASHAMED at asking "tabloid" type questions. Flag pins? Turns out that question came from SEAN HANNITY. Great job George. This is why ABC didn't get any of the REAL debates.
My indirect comment is --> I served on a charity board. (Unpaid, 1 year, my major contribution was filling out 503 paperwork to get them non-profit status, I was paid $1 for the year) YOU DO NOT CHOOSE WHO YOU SERVE ON A BOARD WITH -- and even if you dislike someone, you still work with them, attend a few "social" events (usually fundraisers), and act friendly for the good of the charity.
My real comment is -- DID YOU SEE THE CONSTITUTION CENTER????? (Which Chuck Gibson referred to as the "Constitutional Center", but I digress. Although in that same opening, he said that "46 states have voted" -- ABC obviously doesn't know the difference between a state, a protectorate and a district, since there are 8 states, Guam and Puerto Rico left.... and the total number of American states is 50, Chuck. Actually, maybe it's a math error - either way it shows the sloppiness employed in ABC's whole production).
The debate was held in the Kimmel Auditorium. Normally, that is where they give the twice-an-hour multi-media show on the history of the Constitution. (Open seating -- best seats are in the second row). As they would go to commercial break, the statues they were showing are (I believe) bronze. They are all life-size renditions of all the signers. (I like to hug John Madison, he's just my size in physical stature, although his true stature is that of a giant.) The Constitution Center deserved better questions.
So here's the deal, readers -- if any of you EVER want to go to the Constitution Center, just let me know, and I'll take you. Hillary was right last night when she said that neither she nor Obama was "covered" by the original constitution -- but this place shows how that most wonderful document has changed, how WE THE PEOPLE have changed it, and how it has shaped what we are today as a country.
At the bottom of this page are two pictures of the place..... they are used with permission from the US Constitution Center, and in the Hall of Signers, James Madison is to the left of the table with his hands behind his back.
2. "Screw You"
I know you want to hear about the debate. My ONLY direct comment on the debate is that ABC should be ASHAMED at asking "tabloid" type questions. Flag pins? Turns out that question came from SEAN HANNITY. Great job George. This is why ABC didn't get any of the REAL debates.
My indirect comment is --> I served on a charity board. (Unpaid, 1 year, my major contribution was filling out 503 paperwork to get them non-profit status, I was paid $1 for the year) YOU DO NOT CHOOSE WHO YOU SERVE ON A BOARD WITH -- and even if you dislike someone, you still work with them, attend a few "social" events (usually fundraisers), and act friendly for the good of the charity.
My real comment is -- DID YOU SEE THE CONSTITUTION CENTER????? (Which Chuck Gibson referred to as the "Constitutional Center", but I digress. Although in that same opening, he said that "46 states have voted" -- ABC obviously doesn't know the difference between a state, a protectorate and a district, since there are 8 states, Guam and Puerto Rico left.... and the total number of American states is 50, Chuck. Actually, maybe it's a math error - either way it shows the sloppiness employed in ABC's whole production).
The debate was held in the Kimmel Auditorium. Normally, that is where they give the twice-an-hour multi-media show on the history of the Constitution. (Open seating -- best seats are in the second row). As they would go to commercial break, the statues they were showing are (I believe) bronze. They are all life-size renditions of all the signers. (I like to hug John Madison, he's just my size in physical stature, although his true stature is that of a giant.) The Constitution Center deserved better questions.
So here's the deal, readers -- if any of you EVER want to go to the Constitution Center, just let me know, and I'll take you. Hillary was right last night when she said that neither she nor Obama was "covered" by the original constitution -- but this place shows how that most wonderful document has changed, how WE THE PEOPLE have changed it, and how it has shaped what we are today as a country.
At the bottom of this page are two pictures of the place..... they are used with permission from the US Constitution Center, and in the Hall of Signers, James Madison is to the left of the table with his hands behind his back.
2. "Screw You"
"In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill.
They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for
them.""
That quote is from two books. The authors who wrote the books were there and heard the comment. It stand on its own. The books are: "For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years" by Sally Bedell Smith, and "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House" by Benjamin Barber.
For more context: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/clinton-on-work.html, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html
3. New Hampshire
Yesterday, the NH House of Representatives tabled HR.24, which was based on Thomas Jefferson's "Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States" -- Section 53. If you want to read the manual, look down this link. The link is from the GPO, and Jefferson's Manual (by section) is below the Constitution links http://www.gpoaccess.gov/hrm/browse_109.html
The vote was 227 - 95.
The vote was 227 - 95.
If you haven't guessed already (and yes, I'm betting that Jefferson's 1801 document is a little obscure to most people....)
The motion was to start impeachment hearings in the Congress against Bush and Cheyney. Here is the bill: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/hr0024.html
Read it, it will make you feel better.
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