All sorts of interesting stuff is there jes waiting to pushed out, e.g., early, early this year, someone pointed out Rudy had more ex-wives than Mitt went hunting.

Frankly, I’d settle for a 51% to 47% margin of victory in November. In waking life, 66-33 is more like a respectable approval rating for a sitting president.

On a (tragically) related topic, I gave in and visited the woman-hater’s site to see what the deal was. This is not a joke: I strongly suspect that man has rope and duct tape in his basement. And if you Google him, you find he is widely “celebrated” by other potential serial rapists and murderers out there.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all should your dream come to pass. I’ve been saying “landslide victory” for the Democrats this fall for a long time, and believe even more strongly today that it will pass.

All that needs to be said was said by the great Japanese Zen master, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), who wrote,

If a nun has received and holds the treasury of the eye of the true dharma, the arhats, the pratyeka-buddhas, and those on the three wisdom stages and ten noble stages [of the the bodhisattva path] will come, do obeisance, and question her about the dharma, and the nun will receive such obeisance. What is so exalted about a man? Space is space; the four elements are the four elements; the five aggregates are the five aggregates. For a woman it is the same thing. In acquiring the dharma, all acquire the dharma equally. All should pay homage to and hold in esteem one who has acquired the dharma. Do not make an issue of whether it is a man or a woman. This is the most wondrous law of the buddha.

– original comment overwritten by maha]

Excuuuuuuse me, but she is getting more courtesy from Obama camp and the Democratic Party than she deserves. But we are in the GE and the Democratic Party needs the HC voters in Obama’s camp. So I’m willing to make nice with them.

But don’t EVEN tell me she ‘deserves’ the VP slot or Obama ‘owes’ it to her to help retire her debt. Obama has more to worry about than her campaign debt. She burned her bridges in the primary campaign and she know it when she did it. She’s in debt up to her eyeballs because she did not know when to quit. BTW, will someone explain to me where the 18 million HC voters are in terms of paying off her campaign debt? A little less passionate, when it requires parting with cash, it seems.

Kristol must be losing his shirt in ’straw’ futures because he certainly is selling off a helluva lot of it these days.

1867 – The Republican Party convention, held in New Orleans, includes in its platform equal rights for African Americans.

1869 – Wyoming is the first state to give women the right to vote. The state’s motto is “Equal Rights.”

1870 – Hiram R. Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.

1916 – Pacifist, social worker and activist Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, is the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress… four years before the 19th Amendment gives women in all states the right to vote.

1940 – The Republican Party platform includes the Equal Rights Amendment.

Then the worm turns…

In the late 1940s, unremarkable, alcoholic Republican senator Joe McCarthy gives the notion of “reign of terror” a test-run in the United States, with his anti-communist witch hunts. For quite a while, it works out really well for him.

In 1980, bowing to pressure from the Religious Right in order to elect Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party drops all pretense of supporting equal rights for women.

In 2000, openly claiming to represent the Religious Right, and a dab hand at “reign of terror” himself, Karl Rove becomes the most powerful never-elected person in the United States. Under Rove’s hand-puppet president, the status of women and people of color begins to resemble late-1850s Georgia. Fiddle-dee-dee.

When I look up and assemble these facts in order, I feel like maybe this is The Saddest Story Ever Told. But…

2008 – I dreamt last week that Barack Obama is elected our first African American president, by a completely unexpected margin of 66% to 33% over John McCain.

Of course, I don’t pretend to be psychic, but as the historical record shows… stranger things have happened.