I went with my family to see Bill Clinton speak in New Castle, Indiana. It started out slow with the doors opening a little past 4:15 like they were supposed to. My dad had called Joe Hogsett the state coordinator for Hillary Clinton in Indiana and we found out he was 30 minutes away. The speech finally started at a little after 4:50. The crowd didn’t really seem to notice the delay. Although I am pretty much on the side of Obama you can’t help but be amazed at Bill’s speeches. Even if they repeat all the time. He was introduced and behind him stood a full length flag, and of course the podium. He was nicely attired and had on his normal bracelets. He talked about Hillary’s tax plan, economic plan..which involves battery operated cars.
“If we can beat the Soviet Union to put a man on the moon we can beat the world at spreading battery powered cars and Hillary plans on doing it.”
Then he started to talk about foster care, jobs getting more and also them being given to other countries, gas prices..and everything but, it seemed, the war in Iraq and immigration. Sure he said Hillary wants us out of Iraq but he didn’t go much further. He also didn’t look at Barack as a threat, he didn’t make fun of him or smear his name, whenever he was mentioned it was only as “opponent.” Near the middle of the speech he went on to say
“I have Clinton laws, and since I can’t run for anything anymore I might as well pass them down to Hillary,” one that stuck out was “If people say you can’t win it means you can.”
His speech was full of stories and applause was enormous even though the New Castle Middle School wasn’t quite full to the brim. He ended with a very patriotic pro-Hillary voting. Before this giving us ammo to use if we wanted to change someones mind to go for Hillary, and then saying how if he wasn’t married to Hillary he would still think of her as a strong candidate.
Although it was a powerful and amazing speech, and despite the fact that I got to shake his hand..I still am unconvinced, not that I can vote anyway but I still like to say I go for someone. Just means I have to hear this all from Hillary, and then the other side of Barack.
Indiana has always been the state that by the time the primaries come to us, which is May 6, the candidates are already roughly chosen. James Carville just state “Indiana is the tie breaker.” It seems like the tables have turned. It’s surprising to hear that even from Indiana people when the candidates come here it’s already pretty much decided for us. It’s refreshing also that the candidates are actually trying to win over our state.
Now I don’t know about anyone else but I love me some Carville. His thick Louisiana accent “The Ragin Cajun,” and his political knowledge. It’s just easy to get lost in his conversation, especially if he isn’t letting Richardson talk at all on Larry King Live. For Bill Richardson (Remember him? New Mexico Democrat who used to be running for President?) to say that debates aren’t helping because they’ve been saying the same thing is insane! Debates are always necessary. It keeps their information straight. Sure Carville is pro-Clinton of course, once being the political adviser of Bill but if it did come down to Obama he would vote for him. What America is looking for now when it comes down to is a Democrat in the office.
Over the weekend the love of our life Aliza Shvarts has been blamed a hoax then proved it was real, and then was a hoax again well people she proved herself but now there’s MORE news! Yale is banning her. Boo Yale, you don’t love art..or..you care too much about this woman’s body. Needless to say, I am happy this is occurring. She got her fame for a few days but now it’s over with.
“I am appalled,” Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said in a statement Friday. “This piece of performance art as reported in the press bears no relation to what I consider appropriate for an undergraduate senior project.”
On to other more local news. As you know Bayh and Hillary are very buddy buddy, and he’s been by her side ever since she came to Indiana to speak, but is Bayh all Hillary has right now? She has a very important Indiana endorsement, and I have yet to hear, besides Andre Carson, who backs up Obama. You have the whole “Vice President Bayh” thing going on which only means more publicity for Hillary, but wait what does Bill have to say about this?
Bill Clinton chose Bayh to deliver the keynote address at the 1996 Democratic National Convention and referred to Bayh in his 2004 memoir as “a gifted leader who might be president some day.”
So Bill likes him, what else is there? It sounds like Hillary has it in the bag to nab up Indiana, which to some people is essential. Yet Obama leads Clinton in the donations, almost three times as much. Obama is more appealing to the young voters and over the weekend Obama called Senator Richard Lugar to wish him a happy birthday, even if Lugar never gets into the Democratic sidings, just that friendship is good to hear. This seems so much like a real fight I feel like I should start taping it, it’s getting so intense. Who WILL get Indiana? As of yet it’s down to a 5% lead, and Obama has it, we have to wait and see. If Hillary does well tomorrow and in Indianapolis she could be the come back kid. Let the ramblings began.
No Democratic presidential nominee has carried Indiana since Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1964, and the poll showed that either Obama or Clinton would have an uphill battle against the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain.
I know I should probably write about the Democratic Debate last night, and I will only say a few words on that. It really sounded like Hillary swept it, she came across as clear and very experienced. Barack stuttered a lot and had his own words used against him, but it was a very interesting watch. Now onto the headliner.
I was surfing the web when I came across a story about a Yale Art Student who graduates this year and her final project. Aliza Shvarts is a very opinionated student, pro-creativity, art, feminism, abortion. Why should I mention the latter? Shvarts inseminated herself and made it into her project, yes this is a nine month long pregnancy video done with a splash of creativity. Sounds innocent and beautiful right? Wrong. She took abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. You may want me to stop right there but her project also contains viles of her miscarriages blood.
“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”
The only thing that she didn’t do is pay the sperm donors for their services. She only required them because she needed to take tests for STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). What’s amazing is that in the end she doesn’t care what those drugs did to her body, both in ability to become pregnant again or any other side affects. Her art teacher however, LOVED this project idea but knew a lot of people out there were very disturbed by it. I wonder why? She failed to go to a doctor because she thought since the drugs were herbal and legal that she didn’t need to go.
The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts’ self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.
What do you think of this? A lot of Yale students, students from other campuses and other people in general think she took her constitutional right of her body way too far, think its morally wrong, and don’t think she should be so open about. Discuss.
Exhibit will be open April 22-May 1 in Holcombe T. Greene Jr. Hall on Chapel Street
Sometimes I wish I understood the fixation with Miley Cyrus, is it that catchy tune “See You Again,” or is it just the fact that she can come across as a sane schizophrenic with her Hannah Montana counterpart? Whatever it is she’s partook in a skit with both John McCain and Barack Obama that premiered on the Country Music Television awards last night. When I read the title of this article I groaned and went “Not another thing on Miley Cyrus..” but who can run from her now? Especially since she’s in politics, not that she can vote or anything. The most she can do is be humorous
Ms. Cyrus: Hello?
Mr. McCain: Miley, it’s John McCain.
Ms. Cyrus: John McCain?
Mr. McCain: I think you know why I’m calling.
Ms. Cyrus: I can’t vote yet.
Mr. McCain: No, no. I need tickets for the show. And as a U.S. senator, of course, I’d have to pay for them.
Ms. Cyrus: Wish I could help, but I’m all out. Oh, sorry, I gotta run, Senator McCain, but good luck with the whole running for president thingy. Sounds kinda fun.
Mr. McCain: Well, what about an autographed Hannah Montana lunch box?
(Ms. Cyrus hangs up.)
Ms. Cyrus: Miley Cyrus speaking.
Mr. Obama: Miley, it’s Barack Obama.
Ms. Cyrus: Let me guess. You want tickets?
Mr. Obama: Uh, yeah. I’ve got two daughters, and they really, really love you.
Ms. Cyrus: Sorry, but I don’t–
Mr. Obama: Four words: Treasury Secretary Hannah Montana.
Ms. Cyrus: Gotta go! Since when are awards shows so political?
It’s cute right? Miley plays the ditzy pop star and McCain and Obama try and make people laugh with wanting the ever so popular tickets (and ever so expensive) to a show. What do you think about this? I have mixed reviews. It used to be SNL was what political candidates went on but that’s gone done the drain too..now Hillary Clinton is appearing on The Colbert Report for the first time ever. Which would appeal to a crowd more? Colbert..or Cyrus..?
Bill is yet again putting Hillary’s campaign into a deeper hole. While in Boonville, Indiana he took the stand to discuss his wives road to the White House, but not in a way that would help her. He brought up bad old news, like Bosnia, that even she didn’t want to hear, and when he realized what he did he quickly went back to her and tried to cover them up with more inaccuracies. The funniest part of this story was when he said his wife shouldn’t handle things in the middle of the night because she was old and forgetful.
“When they’re 60,” he said of reporters who, he believes, have overdramatized the episode, “they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 o’clock at night, too.”
Instead of saying “My husband was just rude and I apologize for that,” she says it was her fault and she would handle it. All of this spurred with only a photograph when she was First Lady. She went over to Bosnia and said “I went there under sniper fire,” when in a picture there seems to be no proof of sniper fire. Did she use it too make herself stronger and like she can go anywhere and help anyone especially with fire raining down on her? Some thing it might have helped her foreign policy credentials..At the time. Not now though, since everyone’s getting on her back about it.
Barack didn’t attack her however, about Bosnia, instead said he would leave it up to the Clinton’s. I think Bill should let his wife run her own campaign and only be brought in when necessary. Sometimes I question if Bill is trying to change rules and run another term! It’s either Chelsea or Bill I see on the TV. In my opinion, he’s hurting her chances. She should run for herself.
And for his part, Mr. Clinton, asked if he regretted his earlier comments, said, “I regret that there appears to be a double-standard about misstatements.”
I know this isn’t politics, but I like to write about things that have caught my attention and should be brought to others, something impacting. So I’m going to twist this blog around just for this post and inform all of you about the 8 teenagers ages 14-18 who kidnapped and beat a defenseless 16 year old in Lakeland, Florida. Two boys stood guard so that no one could get in and help her. They just did this because they wanted a viral video on the internet. Well they got it, and they also got arrested for it.
A lot of teenagers, I know this, post videos of fights up on the internet. Ones that happened in school or over the weekend just to show that they are man enough to kick somebody else’s ass. It only shows how mean and cruel they are. I don’t care if the other person deserved it, that just isn’t something you do and especially something you post on the internet for your friends to laugh about. These kids in this video won’t be blamed most likely by huge society. What will be blamed is video games, energy drinks, and parental raising. Why do we find it so hard to believe that actual teenagers, PEOPLE for that matter, would do something like this? Why can’t we just blame the person? Let them take responsibility for their own actions and take the punishment, like they should.
Stick them in jail, do whatever..just show them that what they did was wrong and not acceptable because from the looks of it a lot of teenagers don’t know this. They think it’s cool to start a fight in the middle of lunch and video tape it just so everyone who did happen to miss it could see it. It just gets on my nerves and it really makes me wonder about our society today. I remember when there was this huge thing about girls fighting other girls just for the sake of a top hit video. When in real life it was the stupidest decision ever. I thought that stopped for a while but it seemed to get worse, the numbers of people fighting over the number of victims rose. Now it’s 8 to 1. What’s happening?
While I was helping out downtown at the Marion County Democratic Party, I was shown by my father the latest ad of Senator Evan Bayh endorsing Hillary Clinton. He praises her, saying he’s known her for years and she has a “spine of steel”. The New York Times gave a new insight to this quote saying it may help her out in the industrial parts of town. I could see how they would say this but will it really affect those towns? What do you think? Though it is a very interesting statement.
This ad also brings forth the new Hoosiers For Hillary campaign. I don’t know if this will help Hillary or not, but Bayh is a strong force in Indiana people think he might be in the running for a Vice President spot, and maybe it will boost her ego a little bit. The ad itself is kind of cheesy, as are all the other campaign ads out there, Republican or Democrat. And it ends with them locking raised arms, ah the love of endorsing.
Yesterday I took a trip downtown to the location of 2 N Meridian Street where the Obama Headquarters stand. You turn from the Circle Center and notice a huge breakage in the glass, but you also notice a Change poster and when you get in front of the building you see people standing outside taking pictures and talking about how it’s such a nice open walk through and there wasn’t that much of a crowd inside but there was enough workers.
My father introduced me to some of the head people there who told me what exactly happened about the window, that a man had thrown a barrier through it while a person was working inside the building. The man has been arrested and he said he would have done it even if it was Clinton’s headquarters. People like that just make you wonder. I also got some free stuff but the point of the matter is people were working there. I was thinking to myself even if Obama loses, these people can proudly say they supported him and actually used their power to register people and to spread the word about him. The same goes for every McCain person and Clinton person. It’s good to just be out there.
I wanted to know how I could volunteer, even though it’s just for an hour a day because I feel since I can’t vote in this election that by sitting here I’m giving up all my power to even support who I would like. Which is pretty obvious now and I know a good writer tries not to side with anyone, but things happen and I try to stay pretty unbiased. I didn’t have time to sign up there but I’ll get to it, because I would like to see what it’s like to work in an environment like that even though at that point it was slow paced.
Obama is coming to visit again April 9, and I’m hopefully going to be in attendance.
Every time I read articles of President Bush traveling the world and greeting people in other nations it makes me question if they really wanted him there in the first place? Bush traveled to Croatia to praise them about their growth more specifically NATO. He gave a speech in St. Mark’s Square which is outside Croatian Parliament to a crowd of 6,000 people. The statement that stands out in this article however is not that he visited but the fact that he was praising their bloody war with the Serbians in the 1990’s which, even if there is not bloodshed, continues on verbally to this day. He showed obvious pro-Croatian tacts by stating
“It is only a matter of time before freedom takes root across that troubled region,” Mr. Bush said And when it does, millions will remember the people of your nation stood with them in their hour of need.”
Would he say that to Serbians? Or would he quickly reverse it and say “Oh well yes, Croatia what a bad bad country in need of tremendous help from THIS country.” I understand the President was in a tough decision here about what to say regarding this topic but he shouldn’t have even acted like he was choosing sides. Bush invited countries to a speech regarding NATO, (NATO the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization, what that just means is if one is attacked by an external party they are all mutual) is but Macedonia was blocked out by the Greeks. Mainly because the Greeks have a region named Macedonia. Of course knowing Bush we cannot forget that he would bring up the situation with the troops. Bush thanked Macedonia, Croatia, and Albania for sending over troops in Afghanistan. And also thanking Albanians and Macedonians for their further help in Iraq.
“This is an era in history that generations of Croatians have prayed for,” Mr. Bush said. “May the hopeful story of a peaceful Croatia find its way to those in the world who live as slaves, and still await a joyful spring.”
The only thing Bush didn’t do was mention the Ukraine, knowing Russia hated them and Putin thinks of them as a huge threat in expansion. Good job Bush, finally watching your words I see. Now it’s time for you to try to patch up Russia, because we all know that Putin is not one of your biggest fans. Oh how this reminds me of World War I’s Central Powers.
