rocketpig said:
It's hard not to lose respect for any presidential candidate. Anyone who gets to that level of power has some built-in hypocrisy and skeletons in the closet. It's part of what makes this process so nauseating. The people who would be wonderful for this country (Collin Powell, for example) are either too smart or too honest and don't want the fucking job.
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Totally agree. The primaries made me dislike Hillary quite a bit, and I was a Hillary supporter for a good period of time. She was acting WAY too much like a politician, which is excusable to some degree, but not to the degree she was taking it.
I switched to Obama a few weeks before the Texas primary.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
