For those of you who miss the paranoia driven ravings of unemployed and unemployable ex-Professor Jimmy Wayne Jones, former fucker of students at the University of Charleston, WV, and the man most likely to win the Charlie Manson Cultivar Award for 2007, here he is again--wildly confabulating in his own inimitable, self-aggrandizing style. Brief appearances by his three interchangeable ass licking undergrad buddies: Shannon Moran (mother of his seventh--or is it eighth--child, Teagan Blair), Hannah Wilkes and Joanna Pisarki. Remember girls, Kool-Aid is bad for your health.


Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Morning


Wow. Last night was crazy. But today I am reborn. Some things work out for the best.

Okay. Well, I woke up to some crazy weather. Schools tend not to close out here, but there was a wave of delays and closings all throughout the valley and over to the coast. Ice. Hannah walked into my bedroom around 6:30 and told me that one of her friends texted her, that there was a two hour delay. First thought: they are playing it safe. We had a horrific accident here ten days ago. A fourteen year old girl, who was in Hannah's gym class, died in a traffic accident on her way to school. There was a bit of ice on the road. Her mother, who was driving, slide across traffic and struck another car head-on. Not wearing her seat belt, the girl was ejected from the car. The impact partially severed her brain stem. So that was my first thought. But it turned out to be a state-wide event.

Michigan votes today. I haven't had much to say about the election in weeks, obviously. I am going to stand by my prediction that Clinton survives her battle with Obama and wins the nomination. That's what I am hoping for. There's something, somewhere deep down, about Obama that troubles me. Last week this motivated Noted Sir to call me a racist (and I might add after I had stood up for nearly every black person he and I knew for MONTHS). I thought about that. But I think this has more to do with generational issues. My brand of liberalism favors cultural conservatism. My brand is dying, however. So much so, I am tempted to vote Republican this fall, after voting straight-ticket Democrat for twenty years.

So I favor established party people, not upstarts who have yet to earn their stripes. I doubt I would vote for any novice first-term Senator over Clinton. Black, white or purple. That said, she has tremendous obstacles to overcome to defeat Obama. I will have more to say about that later, but I suspect that this primary will be known, fifty years from now, as one of the dirtiest, most racist elections in history. Exceeding the Willie Horton campaign Lee Atwater waged twenty years ago.

There's an odd sort of symmetry here. Dr. King and RFK were murdered in 1968. Willie Horton in 1988. And Obama-Clinton in 2008. The Boomers continue to fight the same old battles. I'm just not convinced that Obama has a clue, just because he's not one of them.

As for the Republicans, I will stand by my now increasingly unlikely prediction that Huckabee wins that nomination. McCain seems to have the inside track. But that probably ends today, with a Romney victory. Huckabee follows up with a win in South Carolina. And Florida will be the next major test. Rudy is toast. Huck seems to be setting himself up well for a VP slot, if McCain wins the nomination (I don't think he will). On the Democratic side, I think you can take Edwards's willingness to go after Clinton as a sign that he's siding with Obama, and that he might well end up as Obama's running mate.

If those are the tickets, Obama-Edwards vs. McCain-Huckabee, you can count on a Republican landslide. The white working class vote will abandon the Democrats. Much now depends on how badly the Democrats want to win. Bill and Hilary continue to tell the party (in code) that America is not ready for a black president. Will it listen?

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