Dog Fight Club
Yesterday, during the bizarre Clinton hostage scare in New Hampshire, I took note that somehow, Hillary Clinton is poised to become our next president, even though nobody really wants her to.
I read today about how much ass John Edwards kicks (or, how much he says he'll kick--either way, it's more satiating than what the rest of them are saying to me).
You have to decide what kind of person you want as your next president. Do you want someone who is going to pretend that wall around Washington isn't there, or defend the people who helped build it? Or do you want someone who is going to lead with conviction and tell you the truth, and have a little backbone?
Do you want someone who is going to hope that the people who spent millions of dollars and decades building that wall, and have billions more invested in keeping it up, are going to be willing to compromise, to take it down voluntarily? Or do you want someone who is going to stand up to those people and fight for your interests, when the chips are down, when your backs are against the wall, every single day?
We have a choice in this election. We can keep trying to shout over that wall. We can keep trying to knock out a chink here and there, to punch little holes in it and hope our voices get through. We can settle for baby steps, half-measures and incremental change, and try to inch our way over that wall and toward a better future. Or we can be bold and knock it [the fuck] down.
-John Boy, putting it to the players in Virginia as Lee Eisenberg made his own case
I read this and it feels important to me.
It makes me want to use that extra week of winter break to drive out to Iowa and get my hands in it.
I read today about how much ass John Edwards kicks (or, how much he says he'll kick--either way, it's more satiating than what the rest of them are saying to me).
You have to decide what kind of person you want as your next president. Do you want someone who is going to pretend that wall around Washington isn't there, or defend the people who helped build it? Or do you want someone who is going to lead with conviction and tell you the truth, and have a little backbone?
Do you want someone who is going to hope that the people who spent millions of dollars and decades building that wall, and have billions more invested in keeping it up, are going to be willing to compromise, to take it down voluntarily? Or do you want someone who is going to stand up to those people and fight for your interests, when the chips are down, when your backs are against the wall, every single day?
We have a choice in this election. We can keep trying to shout over that wall. We can keep trying to knock out a chink here and there, to punch little holes in it and hope our voices get through. We can settle for baby steps, half-measures and incremental change, and try to inch our way over that wall and toward a better future. Or we can be bold and knock it [the fuck] down.
-John Boy, putting it to the players in Virginia as Lee Eisenberg made his own case
I read this and it feels important to me.
It makes me want to use that extra week of winter break to drive out to Iowa and get my hands in it.