[Oe List ...] pulling strings

[W. J.]

I'm bewildered. I was for Hillary, but the more I look the scarier he gets. Did you read about the Kazakhstan uranium deal in http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?em&ex=1202187600&en=d99ce5d428ceda0f&ei=5070 ? 
  
  This ain't more Borat yuk-yuks, folks. This is misusing political clout, big time, to benefit cronies. And he can do it in spades if he's sleeping with her (supposedly) in the White House and travelling the world on corporate jets. Not to mention his overriding Hillary's opposition to endorsing the corrupt regime in Kazakhstan. Sure, let him make her foreign policy. We know the governments in all those --Stans are corrupt, right? <wink wink> And OUR government officials are all squeaky-clean--at least the Democrats are, right? So what else is new? 
   
  Take a look at this guy's string-pulling fingers:
   
  
   
  If you read the NYT about Oh-bama, you get the message that our prince of righteousness is in fact, unwilling to confront the new-kew-lur Powers That Be in Illinois that pay his bills. 
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html?ei=5070&em=&en=546128723b04748a&ex=1202187600&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1202083210-4Acur2iU7ibBlsZaxREYMg
   
  So my vote comes down to: which is the least worst of all these evils? We know that, hey, the Demo's are gonna throw their political weight around to benefit corporate interests just lke the Republicrats. Only they may have a slightly more populist tinge, if Edwards makes it to V.P., of even if he's dumped. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/opinion/01krugman.html?em&ex=1202187600&en=bef391f10ddb3713&ei=5070
  But folks, it's all in the vote-swinging political rhetoric, all in the flash of the Kennedy dynasty vs. the Clintonian dynasty, all in the glitz and the star power that hooks the younger generation, all in the promise of anything other than last year's Republican pizza.
   
  So what it comes down to for me is: Mr. Oh-bama can wave the flag, but I fear he's pretty much a lot of hot air where the rubber hits the road. I guess I'll have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary, in hopes that she can grow the cojones to restrict him to the usual First Lady tea party stuff in the East Wing. But I'm not betting on it.
   
  Marshall
   
   
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