SamSaid!

WOT HAPPENED?
Nine month ago, Hilly looked like a shoo-in for the Dem nomination, and now she is hanging on by her fingernails. Out of the blue came Bam Bam who is now the odds on favorite. When Hilly looks at herself in the mirror every morning, she has to ask the obvious question, “wot happened”?

For sure, he is a smooth pitchman and loves the limelight. On the other hand, she had a lot of support from the biggies — with lots of money and a well oiled organization. But somehow her messages ran thin and he gathered a lot of broad based support and nationwide momentum. It all comes down to a simple analysis — the blacks will rally to Bab Bam and the Femmes will rally to Hilly. The rest of the analyses is hogwash. For now, all McCain has to do is sit back and let them take potshots at each other. Hilly may have one too many far left endorsements and BamBam has a Pastor he doesn’t need.
The Democratic convention deserves primetime time and will no doubt get it. O’Reilly will have a field day every night.

TEST
Last time I could not Post and Publish. Glitch? This is a test.

NOW IT IS PENNSYLVANIA

Texas abd Ohio have come and gone and now it will be up to Pennsylvania to decide the Demo Presidenial nominee. Or will it? There is still a chance the neither Bam-Bam nor Hilly will have enough delegates to be a flat out winner. Can you imagine the hassle over these “super” delegates waiting in the wings? What will be the political payoffs to secure their commitments — whichever the way they flip. It will be backroom politics at its best.

After 2 weeks of vacation, I am still playing catch-up by reading all of the accounts in which Bam Bam and Hillary criticize each other. As far as I can see thus far, they are both right. Now we can see who McCain's Veep will be. In the meantime, bye-bye Spitzer. His treatment will not likely be gentle since there are a lot of people who just don't like him, and for good reason. But gotta hand it to him — he kept his charade going for quite a while without being caught. And even his left wing media sponsors have not yet run to his rescue. I wonder if the Yankees have asked him not to wear their logo cap?

Meanwhile, Pennsylvanis will be the capital of the US — at least for 3 more weeks!

SHOWDOWN

Texas and Ohio — the newest version of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. All the marbles are on the table, and for Hillary it might be Custer's last stand. We might reflect on the financial morass that is Social Security reform. Both Bama and Hill voted to kill Bush's proposal for private acounts to broaden the base of retirement income for older folks. They defeated the effort without proposing anything else. Now it is a dead letter awaiting the next wake-up call. But if the Social Security financial mess is huge, the Medical/Health Care mess is multiple times worse — big enough to bankrupt the country. And in all of their campaign eloquence about Universal Heath care, what about how we intend to pay for it?? Nada!

An eloquent writer , Dr Mark hendrikson, offered a sage comments in the press last week — “Government can only give people wealth that it has taken from others.” Like maybe,taxes?? Taxes is a bad word to many who save and invest. But not to Bama and Hill. Taxes put the gasoline in the White House Limousine. Does it bother you that we have 2 csndidates who simply try to out-promise each other by committing expendtures from funds we don't have?? And they call that a debate??

LAST GASP?

It may be an understatement, but Hillary seems to be on the ropes. Just a few months back she seemed to be a sure thing with all of the support from the left wing media, a big war chest and the Democratic leadership. No more. In just a few months her campaign is in trouble, most of the money is spent or committed, and her endorsements are slipping away. How did all of this happen?? Is Batpak Omega really that tough? Or did she botch it?

All kinds of reasons can be cited for Hillary's demise and there is no shortage of pudits weighing in with their personal pronouncements. But maybe the best observation might be the closest — i.e., there are a lot of people who just don't like Hillary. Maybe not fair, and not warranted, but nonetheless true. They just don't like her. Charm school and hairdoes aren't enough, nor are academic credentials or White House savvy. Personally, I don't think there is much she can do to avoid being steam rollered next week or those following. Bill certainly didn't help and I think the average American has had enough of a Clinton White House.

It musr be galling to her to be vanqished by an unqualified neophyte.

CLEMENS

Roger Clemens is one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time. Now he has placed his records and reputation on the line over steroid use — and is absolutely denying the drug accusations — before the American public and the Congress of the US. Not much wiggle room in his denials. I can't imagine a high visibility guy going out that far on the end of a limb unless he is truly innocent of the charges. In this case, I am biased, and I hope that he is telling the truth. Sordid affair — a no win issue for baseball. Roger is right on one point — no matter how this affair ends, he will never outlive or recover from the damage done to his reputation by the accusations.
Nothing wrong with “hope” — just ask Mr Omega.

ROMNEY

A while back, I started to opine on the different presidential candidates, but deferred on Mitt Romney since I figured he woud be around for a while. Bad guess. His withdrawal caught me by surpise.Sorry to see that happen. First of all, he LOOKS like a
President and presents himself as one. No question, he is a leader. Well groomed, well spoken — a take charge kind of guy with business experience and impeccable educational credentials. If you consider what he brings to the party, I sort of gag in thinking of Begonia Omega or Billary.

Romney's campaign never caught fire, but someting tells me that we have not heard the last from Mitt. Hope not. Now we will have to see how broad based the appeal of John MCCain will be.

COMPETITION

The primary elections have generated fierce competition among the Presidential candidates with more to come as the races narrow. But while we focus on Omega, the Clintons, McCain, Huckabee, etc., there is another competition that is equally attractive — if not moreso. That would be the competition among the networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX. CNN etc., for the best looking newscast femmes. Right now, with Megyn Kelly, Jane Skinner, and Laurie Dhue, FOX wins hands down. And their 2nd tier of blonde ladies is not far behind. The real test of course is the best looking blondes wih a lock of hair hanging over one eye. Too bad we can't get a good view of their figures standing and moving. Sitting in a chair doesn't quite win the trophy!
Not a time for brunettes.

TRILLION

In the Sunday newspaper, there was an article on one of the inside pages saying that Prez Bush had proposed a budget of 3.1 Trillion dollars. That is 3.1 TRILLION — which looks like this –
$3,100,000,000,000.00. That is a lot of zeroes before the 3. I'm sure that most people have no real appreciation of the magnitude of $3 Trillion. When you grow up thinking in terms of hundreds or thousands, the whole notion of a trillion goes off the chart.

How does one go about spending $3.1 trillion? And what about the variables introduced by 100 fractious Senators and 435 bickering House members — to say nothing of the Committees involved? I guess that when Trillions are involved, 2-3 Million dollars here and there looks like pocket change. A $5 Million overrun?? So what's the big deal? Peanuts.

Maybe our Congress folks have become numb to big numbers. Could that explain financial irresponsibility?

SUPER

The finale of the football season is the Super Bowl, which has become a National and International event. However, some Super Bowls are Super, and others are not. The 2008 SB was SUPER. Low scoring games are often boring, but this one wasn't. The audiences kept waiting for the explosion to occur, but it wasn't intil the 10 minute mark in the 4th Quarter until the fireworks really began.

While lots of folks wanted to see the NE Pats finish “perfect” at 19-0, most of the fans seemed to support the underdog NY Giants. And almost all fans wanted to see how Eli Manning would fare against Tom Brady, who is as close as you can get to being a legend in his time. Tom did OK, and brought his team back into the lead with 2 minutes to play. Manning had only the 2 minutes, but it was enough. That final drive will last in NFL highlights for decades to come.

Now the Manning brothers have both QBed a Super Bowl winner and been selected as the Most Vauable Player in their wins. And Archie Manning and his wife are now the proudest parents in the world. Sort of makes you feel good ==== or maybe, SUPER!