Let’s take a closer look…
Cafferty: Bum rap for Clinton 3:20
Jack asks: Have the news media been unfair to Hillary Clinton?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/02/27/cafferty.file.wed.cnn?iref=videosearch
Today on Jack Cafferty’s Show on CNN he had a film clip asking if the press has been prejudiced against Hillary Clinton. He read pro and con emails from across the Heartland. Cafferty even cited an excerpt from Maureen Dowd a columnist The New York Times (if there is one woman I love outside of Ugly Betty and Bette Midler and Cathy Friedman and Margaret Wendt, it is Maureen Dowd-I read her before I do the comics or the Financial Pages-if you believe that I like comics or financials you need to call Laura Schlesinger) who in response to Hillary Clinton’s bellyaching about how beat up she has been in the media and that Obama always gets a pass, Dowd said that ‘it was because there is an utter open-minded press that Hillary Clinton lost 11 primaries and or caucuses in a row to Obama that she is still referred to as a contender’. Get ‘er, Maureen. Read Dowd in the Times. She is so brilliant and bright that the lights on Broadway dim when her column hits the streets.
I have said it once and a million times over, I am aghast and amazed and it is unbelievable the amount of money that these candidates are spending to become president of the United States. It is estimated that when the whole dog and pony show is over collectively the candidates will have spent over a billion dollars. Every one of them ought to be ashamed of them selves and take time out for some major psychotherapy because their priorities are way out of line with what we need to be spending money on. How about poverty? Seen any down and out on Main Street lately? And can we forget the deficit we will be wrangling with for umpteen years? Does anybody care about the men and women coming back from war with a lot of psychic damage, physical ruin and no future? ‘Mister, can you spare a dime for me and my hard time in Afghanistan,’ says the lame soldier with no job to come home to and nobody who seems to give a damn. Did you see the latest figures on how many people have lost their homes? (I must admit that malfeasance in the mortgage debacle was shame on the lender and those who were looking for ‘too good to be true’). Could the recession be about taking a cold hard look at what is worth your hard earned dollar and what is simply feeding an addiction? Recession could get you to look at your priorities with a clearer eye.
But the question is about whiners and sissies. And I must say that if my child (and I don’t have one or more thank God-they would have left town a long time ago because I still think ‘work for what you get’ is the Golden Rule where I live and grew up) acted like these silly nincompoops I would take him or her out behind the wood shed and teach them the rules of civility. The bottom line is that politics is about people like the Clintons and the Bushes who are power mad and who have so little concern for the welfare of you and me that it’s scary. Power is what they want and when they get it they run out of excuses when things start to go south and start playing the blame game. Whine, whine, whine you big puss and sissies.
But the Tammy Whinette Award of the day goes to someone I like, but she still qualifies for the big whiner of the week. Whoopi Goldberg, who now is in the seat vacated by Meredith Vieira vacated by Rosie O’Donnell on ABC’s The View, was overlooked in producer Gil Cates’ montage of past hosts on the 80th Oscar Show. On The View on Monday the co-hosts were up in arms and Whoopi choked up at the omission.
I reference Whoopi and all of you to the second paragraph above about all the things in the world that could make me cry but Whoopi Goldberg being left out of the montage of past hosts of the Oscar Show is not one of them. Some movies make me cry-a lot of classical music, especially when diva Ashley Tripp Bell is singing-rainbows, weddings, and bassinets in nurseries, poverty in Slag Town, USA or Darfur, anywhere people are oppressed and slaughtered in the name of Jesus or Allah, the death of a friend like my muse Leonora or soul mate Beirne-but never when a society dame chips a finger nail or her maid quits or a dope loses a mint in the Market-or when Whoopi is left out or a presidential candidate boo hoo’s that she is being mistreated. Go back to Meanness School and get tougher. You signed on for Power and Power takes the soul from your body.
Ta ta.
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About Albert Clayton Gaulden
Transpersonal psychologist, astro-intuitive, author, lecturer, spiritual life coach and founding director of the Sedona Intensive, www.sedonaintensive.com, Albert Clayton Gaulden has influenced countless individuals from all walks of life-actors, athletes, financial specialists, teachers, families, psychologists and psychiatrists-from all corners of the earth-helping them to retrieve their authentic selves and to tap into the inner core of their power. Albert’s unique gift in the field of Transpersonal Psychology is responsible for his fearlessness when confronting the client’s inner conflicts. In his recent book You’re Not Who You Think You Are, Gaulden writes “Men and women are the same; each of us needs to get in touch with our invisible partner, or shadow in order to be emotionally healthy and happy.”
