Caesarean Rhapsody

I don’t like Hillary Clinton. No no this isn’t a sexist comment but an outcome of rational and unimpassioned thinking if you are willing to look at it my way. She is a second generation politician. And whenever second generation politicians take the highest seat in America they end up listening too well and doing too little. They aren’t jingoistic and adventurous; two qualities America hasn’t seen in a President for a while. Their main aim is to be the hero by keeping everyone and their dog happy which leads to nothing but failure of most policies they promise during their campaigns.

Having said all that I’m glad Obama is on his way to become the Democratic representative. He’s new, he’s brash and gives two flying ****s about conventional politics. I think he’s just the tonic America needed. And the timing couldn’t be better. What with the flagging spirits of its citizens, the drooping economy and sense of overall insecurity boring holes in the country that was built on the very fundamentals of democracy by its pioneers.

Here’s something to drive the thorn deeper into Mrs. Clinton’s ribs. An excerpt from a BBC article about her West Virginia campaign:

The Clinton die-hards battling on through the last handful of primaries from West Virginia to South Dakota must be starting to feel like those Japanese soldiers who used to turn up on Pacific islands decades after the end of the Second World War, still refusing to believe it was really over.

I’m sure a lot of people must have got this funny forward where a teacher asks the students to complete popular adages and the kids come up with hilarious new ones. I got it for the n-th time from a close friend. It was mildly amusing too. But what was better was the observation. I thought maybe someone thought of all this and made up a story about the classroom setup. So here’s the observation of the day:

A lot of things get attributed to children because we lack the courage to own up to our actions.

Gee, that’s the best thing I’ve said all day