SECOND, and more, THOUGHTS -- Just A Minute for Monday June 30th, 2008

Hello Again – Here we are at the beginning of a brand new week… all those days stretched out before us.

 

At the end of this week – Saturday – we’ll be headed for TEXAS for a few days to witness the wedding of my namesake grandson, Jack, who is one of the newest on the firefighting crew at Simpsonville, SC. He went to the SC Fire Academy for several weeks last Spring. Prior to that he was working as a lineman at GSP helping to service aircraft – but the call of fighting fires prevailed (and he could use the money to help support him and Sarah, his soon bride to be.)  We’re looking forward to the ceremony, if not to the long trip and the soaring price of gas. I don’t recall ever having paid $4.00 per gallon for gas even in flights outside the United States. But once again I digress…

 

            Closer and closer we edge to the shore of *real* campaigning. We’ve been doing this well into the second YEAR. Anybody tired?  It used to be that Labor Day marked the beginning of the real campaign… of course there were primaries and caucuses before that… and especially in the South where winning the Democrat primary used to be *tantamount* (where ever else was that word used – hardly anywhere) to election. But all that changed beginning in 1948 when former Governor, Judge, Senator J. Strom Thurmond ran against President Harry S. Truman as the “States Rights” candidate – and then took another lurch forward in 1964 when Senator Barry M. Goldwater carried five southern states and Arizona in his presidential race and things went “downhill or uphill”, depending on your party affiliation, from there.

 

            This election cycle has been a most interesting one. I’ve never seen quite the same elements put to the test so starkly in local races – and I don’t think the national contest will be much different. It just makes me long for and argue for a shorter campaign season.  This one has been too long by more than half. We’re *all* tired of the rhetoric. There are only so many ways to say it or write it – and the pundits run out of punditry. So I’d surely rather have a hard fought but briefer campaign – like the British do – than this unending marathon that sprang out of the box in 2006 and continues crawling over the political landscape here in 2008.  Let’s see if something can’t be done about it so we don’t have to suffer through another one.

 

Cordially IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

SECOND, and more, THOUGHTS

Just A Minute – Unity in New Hampshire – at what price? $4600 by Barak and Michelle plus $10 million in cash still on the cuff – that’s what Hillary still owes vendors. Barak, in exchange, is introduced to Hillary’s big-dollar list. She requires a jet to run around in -- but each camp is wary of letting the other paw through their donor lists -- which could be used say in 2012.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin Democrats want Debra Bartosehvich, an elected delegate from Racine County to step aside. Debra feels Mrs. Clinton has been dumped and, (quote)  “Mr. Obama is risky,” telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “[we] need to have someone who has experience with foreign matters.” That kicked the bee-hive – Now the Wisconsin Democrat Party has filed a formal challenge to her being seated: says she’s broken her pledge, is disloyal to the candidate, and the party has been embarrassed by her McCain endorsement.

That’s a decision for the DNC credentials committee -- Hillary is still the candidate to which Ms. Bartoshevich is pledged saying: “I still support Hillary  --… "I hope to go to Denver.”

Ms. Bartoshevich – don’t hold your breath.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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