Hillary vs the world

I didn't watch it, but I was just reading about last night's Dem debate. Now seems to be the time for all the hopefuls to take shots at Hillary. Again the idea of the lying, disingeuous, slick, double-talking Clinton is the message of her opponents on the left and the right.
I don't think she's a liar. I don't think she's a flip-flopper (a concept so stupid, I'm not even sure what it means). I don't think she is her husband.
I think she's doing much what John Kerry did in 04 when the questions about solutions in Iraq came up. She's taking a wise, moderate approach to complicated issues. The next President cannot possibly know what the final solution to many of these things will be. Political reality is that they will have to cut a deal with Congress, their own cabinet and staff AND things can change. Keeping some opitions in the future requires a candidate to be a bit vague on how a policy should look.
At the moment, I'm leaning toward Edwards but I could be comfortable with any of the Dem candidates as President.
Anyone who is elected President eventually will be accused of lying during the campaign. This is not because they are a liar, it is because things change and policies can't turn out to be exactly what was discussed on the campaign trail. The more specific the campaign proposals, the more likely that the end product will differ from the proposal.

Galbraith was right, and still is

John Kenneth Galbraith's "The New Industrial State" was published in 1967. He described the very high level political economics of the highly developed industrial world of the time. He coined the word Technostructure to show the convergence of industrial bureacaracies in both the communist and democratic worlds. He observed that technocrats were the people who were really controlling societies and governments. Technocrats being the corporate politicians who had mastered the organizations who control the production of goods.This is a highly evolved socialist worldview that conservatives hate.

The Partisan in Chief

This week Congress passed a bill to authorize spending on health care subsidies for children. Bush vetoed the bill. He then blamed Congress for not passing any bills. His poll numbers immediately went up. See the logic?

Fred Deux

Ok, so maybe I was wrong about Fred Thompson. From all reports, his campaign is falling pretty flat. Republicans are really not like me. Independent and "Swing" voters mystify me. They're from a different planet than I am. That's a good thing because I'm cooler than they are.

Obama's experience

Some fun Democratic infighting last week. Bill Clinton acted the role of a Vice-Presidential candidate and took some shots at Obama's lack of experience. Robert Reich acted the role of an Obama spinner in defending him. I agree with Clinton that Obama's experience is a bit lacking compared to Hillary and Edwards, but I don't agree with his specific knocks. Obama has no experience at all in a national campaign. Regardless of how you spin it, that's not good in my eyes. I want the Dem candidate (whomever that may be) to thrash the Repub candidate (whomever that may be).