- Zhirem

http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240/output/print

Also, John, welcome to London (and I’m going to assume you’re in the UK, not Canada). Enjoy the bracing cold but pleasantly bright weather we’re experiencing these days! While you’re here, may I recommend the Duchamps, Man Ray, Picabia exhibit at the Tate Modern? It kicks Dadaist ass.

1) My grandmother is a sprite 86 year old DAR member who has never uttered a curse word (she often says, “oh gad” but thats it, I’ve never heard worse). Asked yesterday who she voted for, she said she, “held my nose and voted for McCain.”

When I asked her why she had to hold her nose, her one word response, “Gitmo.”

This kindly little old lady who has chastised me my entire life to “let your light shine,” and “turn the other cheek,” to “forgive and love,” well she will not be happy until the blood of the infidels flows red in the streets. She is furious McCain has the gall to want to move the terrorists to Leavenworth. I was stunned.

2) My mother voted Democrat for the first time in her entire life, for Obama. Which makes sense to me, because she’s a pro-choice, libertarian-style free thinker.

But no, her vote has nothing to do with Obama… this fall she is voting for McCain (maybe Bloomberg). She just so hates Hillary for, “putting up with Bill and Monica,” that she hoped her switching party ballots (she was a registered independent), would drive a final nail in Hillary’s coffin. She’s a Paglia-style feminist.

This election is a fuckn’ blast!

BUT, Jon, I think Obama has some real issues on Tony Rezko… I think we’re going to hear that, “republicans will say ‘Obama got his mansion from Saddam Hussein,’” its what I’m hearing.

I think it is only natural that Baathist money found its way to Obama (whether he knew it or not), Obama was an anti-war candidate, Baathists wanted to get the US out of Iraq.

BUT, if there was any agreement that Rezko’s wife would buy, hold and sell back a part of the land next to the house – thats a gift and a violation of Senate Ethics.

And if Rezko’s wife had no money of her own, and if “cash-strapped” Tony got $3.5M from Nadhmi Auchi (Saddam’s money front-man), just 23 days before she bought this land – then Saddam’s guy may have directly helped Obama buy his house.

This isn’t to say Obama was bought and paid for by Saddam Hussein, no far from it. It is to say, Obama apparently had long time deep support from anti-US Iraqis. If he actually met with Nadhmi Auchi in 2004, it looks much worse.

Yes, Hillary has her own can of worms, but perhaps Obama’s got one too. If they were smart, they might just shut up and run together.

What concerns me here, terribly, is that Hillary might win. A voice that discounts ‘states that don’t matter’, a voice that has never publicly admitted fault with her Iraq War vote, a voice that (dangerously similar to the current resident of the White House) by all accounts – does very little reflecting.

Once again, the Democrats stand ready and able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The new rolls of voters that have taken up voting and politics for the first time, or returned to it after a long absence are not the ones that will be emboldened by a Hillary nomination. The possibility of turning our country around will be made (in my opinion) far more remote and unlikely. Huge corporate interests and other disheartening developments in the reality of our current political cesspool in Washington will not improve.

Frankly, I wish I would not have paid attention today either.

- Zhirem