I haven’t read any of Glenn’s other works, but this one really strikes a nerve with me – it seems like he only is getting warmed up and getting better. Our team needs to get up to speed on this extremely common play – it happens ever election cycle – and learn to use it to destroy the right. It is such easy, low hanging fruit, once you see the pattern. We have the power right in our hands, they right has literally given it to us.

Bonnie – I remember “continuous process improvement” from half a lifetime ago when I was at GE. Nobody knew anything about Buddhism there, nor did they pretend to. I got out just before “six sigma” came in.

The demise of the Clinton machine, the demise of the Clinton’s clever ‘triangulation’ policies, the demise of people who speak the language of Democrats but govern like Republicans has to be a good thing.

The Clintons worked their first term to assure their election to a second. They worked their second to end up very rich. Now they want back in office. They may be remembered in American history books as the couple who threatened the end of the American two-party system. (Hopefully the threat never materializes.)

Bonnie, years ago, my then mother-in-law gave me her family’s carefully guarded secret recipe for a certain dessert which she claimed had been created by her mother. She even asked me to promise to never divulge the ingredients to non-family…….so precious was the family heirloom recipe! Egad, a few years later I found and bought an old 1954 Betty Furness Westinghouse Cookbook at a yard sale. Yep, that exact recipe was in that cookbook. [I never told my mother-in-law what I had found]

There is now a much, more important scandal! McCain’s wife put recipes on his webpage and claimed they were long-time family recipes! It turned out they were originally Rachel Ray’s recipes! Surely, our M$M will write and write and write about this scandal. I mean, it is without a doubt more important then the health care crisis or the war in Iraq–isn’t it????!!!

Bonnie,

That is exactly what all the agents of “bitterness” are counting on. I agree and sometimes I want to disengage as well. But I feel that is what all the “bobbleheads” are working for: to make all of us so sick of the process that we will just turn away and let the status quo continue. I look at this whole flap this way: BHO is a big boy, he knew he was going to get slimed during this campaign. I feel he can take it. This “bitterness” is not the worst of it. Once this campaign moves into BHO vs McSame it’s going to get much worse. The “change” that BHO represents is intolerable to many in this country, it aint gonna be pretty.

On a more positive note. I was talking with a co-worker of mine from rual N.Dakota, he’s as right wing as anyone I know but he seemed to agree with what BHO was talking about, and thought much like me that Obama’s words were more inconvienent than untrue.

What ever happened to the media giving BHO a free ride?

George Will’s little piece was an interesting read..It took me several readings to understand what he was trying to say, but I finally was able to get through it enough to know that he was just blowing smoke up my butt with a high degree of refinement. Will is not nearly as slick as his hair-doo.

Maha,
I had to attend a mind-numbingly boring staff meeting today. While some guy was carrying on about some process that had absolutely no substance to it, he used two Buddhist words stating that he was a “Buddha scholar.” I could not make out the words on the screen; but he said one meant “relentless reflection” and the other meant “continuous improvement.” Can you tell me what those words are? And, does it mean anything when someone calls himself a “Buddha scholar.” I’m sure you can run circles around him on the topic of Buddha.