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She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Senator Obama's support ... among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again. I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on."

This is fantastic. If only she could have gotten the support of the "lounging, non-working Americans, black Americans", she could have been the nominee. Unfortunately, race is an issue. But is it an issue for Hillary? Yep. But where race is really an issue is in the African-American vote, where over 92% of black voters are voting for Obama. It would strain all credibility to believe that this high a percentage actually just agrees most with what Obama says over the other candidates. No, being African-American in America is like being a member of a down-trodden fraternity. I have black friends, and I swear to you that they know, personally, every other black person in this city. It's just incredible. They are like the Mason's only their secret symbol is melanin.

Sincerely, I sympathize with African Americans. They were put in a piss-poor situation in this country for hundreds of years and were only granted equal status not really all that long ago. And after equal status was granted, there is a certain amount of time that must pass before society's impression and bigotry dies down enough to where the legal status actually means anything. Furthermore, I am, myself, a paranoid type person, and I know for a damn fact that if I were black, I'd probably blame half my troubles on that. It's just the way I am, and I admit it. So I have true sympathy for the plight of blacks.

Yet, I'm not black and looking at it from the outside, I believe the two greatest hindrances to black equality in this country are, one, the now unreasonable sense of injustice amongst African-Americans that won't allow the past to be the past, and, two, the Democratic Party,which plays upon these sensibilities of the African-Americans to keep them in line as a voting block.

And little miss's comments are an example of what happens when a prominent Dem suddenly finds that she can't count on this voting block being there. The ugly secret normally hidden away in the Democratic closet starts to peek out. Make no mistake. Dems are friends of the black community only as long as they are getting the lion's share of the black votes.

But the funniest things are the responses to this CNN blog entry. If you want to see what a miraculously ignorant series of comments can come from the stupid, leftist, emotion-driven populace, just scan down the page a bit.

Now to go give this story some pub on my Hillary site...

My little trooper keeps chugging along, carrying on the fight until, hopefully, the last shred of dignity will have left both her and Bill. The important question now is how seriously will Obama take her? Likely, her usefulness is at an end, and Obama will stop focusing on her and move his attention to the general election. And it seems that he can comfortably do this. Looking at the press release from liberalicious after the N.C. and Indiana primaries, she seems to be focused on taking this campaign only to the end of the voting, not to the convention. If you want to read the release, you can go to the official Hillary website here: http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/. Note, you may or may not get redirected to a page requesting that you contribute to the Clinton campaign. Use your own judgement.

But this simply won't do. I'm not ready to give up my little trooper. From this day forward, or until I get bored with it, I am going to campaign for Hillary to take up the struggle as a member of a third party or independent. Actually, I can't imagine any other party wanting her, so let's make it an independent run. I can't really do it here because someone might expect ulterior motives. I need a new blog where I can share my Hillary poetry and ernest love for the idea of her as an independent candidate. Should I call it, "clintonboy" as a play off of Obama girl? Or maybe it should be "hillaryclintonindependentforpresident".

Okay, here it is....http://hillaryclintonindependentforpresident.wordpress.com/

In my Yugo (covered in the feathers of dead baby ducks), I felt I could understand and even sympathize with the theory behind being squashed. The best, fastest and, perhaps, only current solution is to drill for more oil and to build refineries and (cover your ears liberals) new nuclear power plants. However, I don't think this is going to happen in the current political climate, and I don't see a change in the weather soon. In fact, as I predict we will see over the next few years, the whole global warming thing will be largely proven false, and yet the cacophony of caterwauling, hairy-legged California women squeezing their bare breasts against the nearest endangered tree is only going to get louder. Liberalism requires no logic, after all. It only requires a sense of "the greater good".

And this is important for two reasons: China and India. In these two, still growing, countries reside populations of nearly 3 billion. Nearly 2 billion of those meet the non-financial requirements for car ownership, but the vast majority don't have the economic ability to acquire a car. But the times, they are a changin'. As their economies continue to grow by leaps and bounds and corporations find it useful to "reinvent" the car for the lower income populaces (as is already happening), there are going to be vastly more people on the oriental highway in any given day than there will be on all the U.S. roads in a month. We're not talking $150 for a barrel of oil; we're talking $2000 for a barrel of oil.

Yes, we damn sure need to be drilling every ounce we can find, but we also need to be proactively doing what Americans have always done: we need to lead the way with new solutions. Not because we want carbon footprints as petite and lovely as Cinderella's, but because we don't really have any choice. Perhaps things can be better briefly, but the long term outlook is grim. As the world economy lifts Asian, Eastern European and African nations to industrial status, let's let them use the oil while we pioneer cheap hydrogen. Or we can pay $40 per gallon at the pump.

I suppose we could nationalize our oil companies. We could take them all over and start drilling everywhere and only sell to American refineries and that would last us a while. But if we don't nationalize these companies, they'll just sell the oil in the general market and as the demand continues to increase, so will the prices. And, in any event, I'm not a fan of nationalizing the oil industry. That leaves me with two actions to take: conserve and research.

From the New York Post, we have this story, WHAT I LEARNED AT 'ANTI-JIHAD U', which tells what is currently happening in a couple of Iraqi detention camps. Far removed from the Abu Ghraib prison that still hits the news seemingly every single day, these camps of some 23,000 insurgents are designed around a concept that moves one step beyond nude photography. No, not nude moving pictures. These camps are actually making a difference in the lives of these Iraqis.

"Ahmed, a 30-year-old Sunni, talked with me as he was being released. He told me he'd never been physically abused or mistreated during his 11 months there - and had learned how to read, write, do carpentry and play chess. "Because I had never played chess before, I had to cheat to win," he joked. "None of this would have happened in an Iraqi jail."

And learning a trade, it seems, is very important. Amongst the other interesting things we have found in running this camp is that "...most (insurgents) are motivated mainly by money, or lack of it. Some 78 percent said they'd participated in attacks against Coalition forces to feed their families, and 79 percent have children. Only one in three said that they had a strong religious belief. Some 64 percent are illiterate."

As for the litteracy rate, we have this revealing quote, "After Iraqis here learn how to read and write, they can read the Koran themselves for the first time," says Sheik Ali, a Sunni who counsels detainees. (Like most Iraqis working in the program, he declined to give his surname; he must live in a US-guarded compound to avoid reprisals.) "I've seen detainees break down and cry when they realize that the conduct they thought was sanctioned by God is actually a sin."

Perhaps this shows that hope is not all lost in the Middle East. Perhaps enlightenment can come afterall. A large number of detainies have already been released back into the population with remarkablly low levels of recidivism (if we had that level of recidivism in U.S. prisons, we have to start closing them in short order). Perhaps there is hope for the Bush legacy after all. If we can create a blueprint for social change in this area of the world, it could lead to some good things. Maybe even to that ever elusive Middle East peace.

Somewhere in that headline is a joke; I'm certain of it. Either I'm making fun of the Jesus Take the Wheel Song, or that joke about "take my wife..." Anyway, gas prices have become so ridiculous that we've taken to praying they'll come down. Despite nearly constant lobbying, I don't get to decide which prayers get answered and which ones don't, but this is one I would toss in the "quit whining and take care of it yourself" bin, but I'm humble enough to let God choose whatever He wants to do with it. (for one example of people praying for lower gas prices, go here http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802446.htm).

This whole thing reminds me of the familiar Christian story of the man stranded on the top of his house during a flood. He keeps praying to God to save him, but turning down boats that arrive just for that purpose. When he finally drowns and goes to heaven, God asks him why he didn't get on any of the boats He sent.

Perhaps God will rain down miracles upon us tomorrow and all will be well at the gas station, but, more than likely, we need to consider what is there for us already.

We have allowed the anti-capitalist movement to set a worldwide agenda regarding environmental issues and global warming that will not permit us to drill for oil in places where vast reserves await untapped. Granted, any expansion of the use of fossil fuels is more a bandage on the problem than a real fix, but right now we need to stop the bleeding. If we have any hope of accessing these underground oceans of oil, be they in Alaska, or shale, or under the sea, we have to put the right people in office. That's not likely to happen for awhile, as the Democrats seem poised to take all branches of government in the approaching elections, so we need to find another solution.

Like most solutions, this solution fits the perfect conservative mold. Essentially, it is up to you. we need an interim conservative movement that encourages vast conservation. This is not giving into the propaganda of the Democrats. It is a practical solution to a problem that only we, as individuals--not the state--can fix. Since there may never be new refineries in this country or new oil fields, it is time for the citizenry to take charge, which is what America is all about anyway.

One of the pitfalls of the two-party system is that we polarize on every issue even if it makes no sense to do so. As such, I feel almost compelled to waste gas simply based on the idea that the other side is trying to get me to use less of it. Do I really want to base my actions off of what the Democrats think? Hell, no. I want to base my actions upon what works and what is right and for my own reasons. I'm not saving gas to reduce my greenhouse gas emissions. I'm doing it to save me money and stop buying so much terrorist oil.

We all know what to do. If we're in the market for a new vehicle, we can look for flexible fuel vehicles or hybrid vehicles. We can carpool. We can take fewer trips to the store. We can eat at home instead of driving to the restaurant.

And, no, that doesn't mean we've become a bunch of tree huggers. It means we've gotten into the boats that God sent while we were stuck on the roof of the gas station.

I received an email this morning containing “The Ten Cannots” and thought that would make for a nice first post. Of course, the email attributed the sayings to Abraham Lincoln, when actually it was a conservative Presbyterian minister, William J. H. Boetcker, who published them in 1916. While they are not the words of Lincoln, the list was read by Ronald Reagan at the 1992 Republican Convention. That’s good enough for me.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Seems like a nice way to start a blog entitled “Conservative Principles”.