The Headlines

Hello,

Today I woke up seemingly unaffected by all of the events of yesterday. Two very important things happened there was the ever so important announcement that my beloved Brett Favre is retiring, and that pesky little primary thing. This is the order. The newspapers even had it correct. Large pictures of Brett and long stories on the front pages and then a little bit on the side about the primaries.

I am not sure how to feel about Brett leaving. OK so he is almost forty and I didn't expect him to play forever, it is just that he got his second wind so to speak and I thought next year we would see Favre training Rodgers and maybe some more Rodgers playing time and it would be a smooth transition. No, not happening, he is just leaving. This leave more time for him and I to have a tryst, but I still would like to see him play. I happen to love that man. Always have always will. Rodgers has some huge shoes to fill and he will fail if we continue to compare them. So lets give him his own shot shall we?

Now the primary.... What the fuck? I say this not because Huckabee didn't get the hint before McCain got the actual nomination, or because Hillary made a come back, I say this because everyone seems so emotionally attached. Here are my opinions. Huckabee didn't get the hint and that is OK, I mean he was only a thousand electoral votes behind McCain. Leave him alone he is gone and he tried which is more than you can say. Hillary made a push and it worked. We all saw her pushing and trying. This is America people, we saw her as an underdog and we cheer for the underdog. She isn't the underdog as much any more. Obama has charisma but lets face it you can't ride on that forever. Hillary also went for the younger vote by appearing the night before via broadcast on the Daily Show which could have really helped her. It is a tight race and at this point if you are a democrat be glad that all of the focus is on the dems. that is what gets more votes and wins elections. The differences between Hillary and Obama aren't that vast. They both want universal health care. Here is the difference: Hillary wants you to be required to buy it (which is like fixing the homeless problem by requiring everyone to live in a house) and Obama is only giving it to children (which most states already have some form of and is a big fuck you to all the people voting for him that think they will get health care). The problem is that neither are telling you how the government is going to pay for it. This would cost billions upon billions of dollars to do either of these and the fact is we are in tremendous debt and in a recession. Neither of them will lay down clear exit plans but that in my opinion is wrong. The way I really see it is you can't just go on hope without experience because nothing will get done and you can't go on experience without hope because then nothing great will get done. Neither one is a complete package. Neither one is comparable to JFK or Lincoln or Jefferson or Washington. Greatness is not to be projected for the future but to be reflected on after it is achieved. Those are my main thoughts on that. Disagree if you like, you won't change my mind but that doesn't mean my mind is closed.

Ta Ta