David Hardy outlines Don Kates on some perfectly logical reasons why he thinks Hillary won’t be gracing us with her shrill dictates and demands - at least not as Vice President, not this cycle.

Above and beyond anything else, Bill Clinton is an erratic, supremely selfish, self-aggrandizing narcissist who could not resist, and could not be stopped from, getting headlins by running his mouth – even w/ his wife’s presidential nomination at risk.

Frankly speaking, I hope that Kates is correct. Obama hasn’t learned to steal as well as Hillary. A Barack presidency might be interesting, a Hillary presidency would demand action I hope I don’t ever have to take. The woman represents all that is cancerous about American politics. I don’t see the country going anywhere good in the next four years.

Maybe I will end up in New Hampshire sooner than I have been planning. May we all live in interesting times.

I am NOT a McCain fan despite the ads that Google keeps dropping on this blog. However, Sandy Froman, the current leader of the National Rifle Association, does have a point when she states:

That’s why the 2008 presidential election has unprecedented importance for gun owners. Despite their campaign rhetoric purporting to support the right to keep and bear arms, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are categorically opposed to our Second Amendment rights. Hillary Clinton opposed the 2005 tort reform law that saved the American gun industry from bankruptcy. Barack Obama has declared his opposition to all concealed carry laws. He has refused to repudiate his answer to a 1996 questionnaire, where he answered “yes” to a question asking if he supported laws banning “the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.” And Senator Obama’s true contempt for gun owners came out when he described us as “clinging” to our guns out of bitterness.

You can read the full article titled Guns and Judges: Electing the Supreme Court in 2008.

Long story short is that McCain would be more friendly to gun owners than either of the total socialists. McCain is only a half-hearted socialist. For the record, I am not an anti-socialist. I think strong social networks are vital to the health of any community. However, when social networks and societal support systems are run by governments, they generally suck, for lack of a better term.

I am not interested in mediocrity, particularly when it is being forced on me in lieu of other choices I may once have had available.

McCain might well keep some pro-2nd amendment people in the government in the short term. In the long term though, the anti-individualists will keep chipping away at all the things that make people flee other places to come here - choice, opportunity, freedom and most especially a mindset of rugged individualism.

Anyone who is truly interested in self-defense and individual rights already has an escape plan. McCain isn’t going to save this country from anything. Only private citizens acting together can do that.

I don’t mean that in the sense that he is a good guy, or a politician I support, or someone I admire because Barack Obama isn’t any of those things. He is the man in the sense that Barack Hussein Obama has locked the Democratic nomination. The writing is on the wall and the wrangling that is still going on is a pointless waste of time. Barack is the dude who will be running against John “2013″ McCain for leadership of this rudderless ship we all share called the United States of America. I am sure Hillary Clinton will play some sort of prominent role in the new administration should Obama find himself elected.

I once thought that the worst thing that could happen to the United States would be Hillary Clinton as President. I’m not really in that mindset any longer. A Barack Obama presidency won’t be significantly different from what we could have expected under the reign of Hillary Clinton. Although I have a strong personal dislike for Ms. Clinton and I cringe and feel like ranting every time I hear her grating, ego laden voice on my car radio, the broad goals of either individual are the same - a socialist nation where the common them is mediocrity. John McCain would lead us down the same path if given the opportunity.

I envision a time when the United States finds itself in the situation Mexico is in today. Instead of guarding our borders against those who want to come here for the myriad opportunities we will be guarding them against those who want to escape in order to be able to make their own choices.

And that is the only key point you need to know about all three of these powermongers: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have one common theme - they want to make choices on your behalf. A life bereft of choices is a life without joy. Remember that on election day.

All you can count on if you vote Democrat or Republican is fewer choices in the coming four years.

Of the three current contenders for the job of Thief in Chief, Hillary Clinton appears to be the most talented money grubber.

WASHINGTON — Propelled by her husband’s post-White House earnings, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s average net worth soared from red ink to $30.7 million between 2000 and 2006, the fastest financial climb among members of Congress who arrived without assets, a watchdog group reported Tuesday.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, reported a $27.6 million surge in his and his wife’s average worth from 1995 to 2006. Their worth rose over that 11-year period from an inflation-adjusted average of $8.9 million to $36.4 million, the ninth-biggest rise in Congress, the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation reported.

The Sunlight Foundation posted on its Web site the first-ever comparison of the 535 House and Senate members’ latest available net worth with their earlier disclosure statements. The forms don’t require any explanation for shifts of fortune.

Many members of Congress have added significantly to their wealth while in office, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy’s jump from an average net worth of $7.1 million in 1995 to $102.8 million in 2006. But because lawmakers are allowed to list their assets in wide ranges and exclude homes that can be worth millions of dollars, the foundation acknowledged that the data may create misimpressions.

Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama’s average net worth rose from $328,442 in 2004, when he was elected to the Senate, to $799,006 in 2006. But counting Obama’s and his wife Michelle’s pricey Chicago home, he almost assuredly has joined the Senate’s “Millionaire’s Club.”

Next time you hear the shrill, harsh voice of your fearless pantsuit wearing potential leader, remember that she lines her pockets from the same pot of gold that her health care plan will be paid for from - yours.

The bottom line has a lot to do with why someone like Hillary Clinton wants to be in politics in the first place. Any person with a poorly developed moral compass who thinks it’s perfectly OK to redistribute wealth by force would be attracted to the shining lights of Washington, D.C. where strangers argue over how much money to steal from the rest of us and skim cents from each dollar that rolls in for their own silk-lined pockets.

HIllary’s base salary is $169,300 per year. She must be a very savvy investor to have turned that into $30 million plus.

I’m glad the media is at least acknowledging that Hillary has honesty problems (and that is a nice way of putting it.)

In the waning days of the Democratic presidential nominating contest, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) finds herself battling two opponents: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), and her own words.

The truth about Hillary is that she can’t remember the truth. This happens to anyone who makes a habit of lying by exaggerating the facts, twisting the truth and bending reality to suit his or her dreams of how things ought to be.

A person who cannot keep track of the truth or be bothered with facts should not be considered as a potential leader for 300 million people. That doesn’t mean such people have not been in charge in the past, or that such people will not lead us in the future.

All I mean to say is that I will never ever follow such a person. I might tolerate him or her but I will not honor, respect or pay homage to an individual for whom lying is a way of life. We all lie. We all have secrets. No of us is completely honest 100% of the time (at least not the successful people among us.) I have no problem discussing that rationally.

On the other hand, when a person lies so much that it becomes publicly obvious the person is habitually bending or misrepresenting the truth and cannot keep straight the lines between reality and made up stories, well that person loses credibility. Hillary Rodham Clinton lost her last shred of credibility years ago, while her husband Blowjob Bill was still the liar in chief. Now she wants to become the next liar in chief? I think not.

Barack Obama may also be a habitual liar. Most politicians have to be to survive in our current political landscape. He has not yet proved himself to be the disappointment I think he can be though. Perhaps America will give him that chance. In fact, I’d almost be disppointed if she didn’t. On a ship of fools, the captain might as well be another fool. When the wind in your sails consists primarily of empty promises Obama is as good a choice for Democratic nominee as any other and maybe a slightly better choice than Hillary because more people can still share the Democratic dream of making the world a better place by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor without fully understanding the long term consequences of such a policy.

Meanwhile:

In a March poll by Gallup, only 44 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that she “is honest and trustworthy,” compared with 63 percent who said that about Obama and 67 percent said it about the Republican nominee-to-be, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

If only 44 percent of respondents think Hillary is trustworthy why is she still a U.S. Senator? Take that question a step further. Only 3% of Americans fully trust Congress. Why the hell are we still putting up with them then? Our system is clearly broken. The next question should be, what can we do to fix it?

Electing Obama or McCain can’t be the answer, since both of them come from the same august body of career liars as Hillary Rodham Clinton.