In today's WaPo, Richard Cohen writes a column using the above name. Mr. Cohen writes: : "(Hillary) Clinton has been a one woman industry. ...more than 50 books have been published about her, some so purple as to be suitable for evidence at their authors' competency hearings." 

Cohen goes on to name several of the books, each seemingly more imaginary than the last, and ending in one named "Hillary's Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy To Muzzle Internet Journalists."  Cohen goes on to say, "Given her palpable mendacity and diabolical powers, it is either dumb luck or part of her long range evil plan that she lost the Democratic nomination.  Time will tell."More below the fold.

Baring another national tragedy, Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.  He has run a stellar race, far outperforming his DKos supporters who are still dissing Hillary Clinton and firing vitriol unworthy of even the Republican dung that almost destroyed Bill Clinton's presidency.   I am certain that should such a national tragedy occur, our DKos Obamanistas all know who will be to blame:  That awful Bill Clinton!

Last evening, against my better judgement, I attended with my wife a showing of Sex and the City at a local theater.  It is rated R, evidently because of extreme high heels, $800.00 purses and $400.00 shoes.  Oh, and there are some pretty steamy sex scenes and plenty of nudity, one showing the "male member" that ads for "male enhancement drugs" routinely avoid mentioning by name.  We will call it, "the full Monty."  Well, actually, it wasn't the full Monty, only a halfMonty seen from a side view.  But still pretty ugly to an old man like me.  As a gyno, I am accustomed to seeing the female body from every vantage point, and consider it to be one of the gods' greatest invention.  But the halfMonty?  Not so much.

My goodness, can you believe that awful HRC said the word assasination?  How insensitive!  How awful that someone would mention assination and Kennedy in the same sentence.  During a presidential campaign!?!!  

How insensitive that a woman whose family has had perhaps as many assination threats as any in American history over the past 16 years would ever even think of the word. 
I wonder where she heard it?

On Friday night I watched Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, the United Church of Christ "reverand" Jeremiah B. Wright interviewed by former Southern Baptist "reverand" Bill Moyers.  And I understood exactly why Barack Obama refused to "throw his friend under the bus" as some many of the MSM are saying he should have done.  Had Rev. Wright left it at that, I think both he and Senator and presidental candidate Barack Obama would have weathered the storm in good condition.

But former U.S. Marine Jeremiah Wright then went on the speak to the NAACP convention and next to the National Press Club and demonstrated exactly why so many of us U.S. Navy sailors called so many of the Marines we knew "Jarheads."  Instead of apeaking in soft and conciliatory tones in explaining his more "inflammatory remarks" delivered in many of his sermons, he came out swinging and delivered two more jeremiads that had ignited all those media fires in the first place.

The Clinton-Obama campaign has been portrayed by many as a white v. black contest.  Instead, we should recognize it as a contest between two prejudices.  Which does the greater damage to the greater number in our society in this year 2008.  In my opinion, it is no contest.

While I hate racial descrimination and recognize that it still holds back millions and has caused the degradation and deaths of many tens of thousands of our African-American brothers and sisters, the damage that still linger in our society as a result of hundreds of years of slavery and Jim Crowism and racial prejudice in both the north and south, this hardly matchs the thousands of years of both institutional and individual sexism that rolls on in this country almost unnoticed and completely unrecognized by a majority of its male, and many of its female, populations, black and white, and brown, red and yellow.

It seems that the majority of the pundits in the major networks and the 24 hour "news channels" have given their opinion, and it is "NO! HILLARY CANNOT WIN.
Bullshit.  She not only can win, but she will have a major victory in today's PA primary. 
She should carry the day by at least 12% points.
Don't get me wrong.  I think either of our candidates will knock out Sen McCain in Nov.  But Clinton will not only deliver a knockout blow to McCain, she will be the great President that Bill Clinton could have been but for personal failings and the Vast Right Wing Conspiresy.  And if you don't think there was such a thing, you must have been a Washington or NYC media insider back when.

For 40 days, a small group of prayerful Christians stood for the most part quietly across the street from my office joining a national campaign of street side prayer and fasting called 40 Days for Life.  According to their national organizer, they were to pray quietly on the street near Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics for 40 days, while carrying minimally provocative signs and never screaming and assaulting the people coming in and out of the office.

Remember That Was The Week That Was?  No?  Well, I suppose most of you are a little young.  It was a comedy hour, or 47 minutes or so, a few years back...sort of like The Daily Show or Bill Maher's weekly program.  Mostly meant to be funny but with a deadly serious side.  Sort of like the movie I saw last night, Stop/Loss where I head young people laughing at the foibles of post traumatic stressed smalltown Texas soldiers returning from Bush's War, that seemed to me to be deadly serious but in the early going deemed funny by some of the younger folks in the audience.  

What follows is a That Was The Presidency That Was, about his other war, Bush's War On Women. Maybe it will seem funny in retrospect, when when a Democrat replaces George W. Bush and we can truly say, that was the presidency that WAS.

As some of you know, with the upcoming presidential general election just around the corner, the American Uncivil Abortion War is beginning to heat up.  Loud talk and anger words, like those that preceded the firing on Fort Sumpter are taking place even in my sleepy little town of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fayetteville has been in the back waters of the war since we pretty much defeated the rebels after 4 years of war from 1985 to 1989.  But the 40 Days For Life.com campaign, supposedly with pray and fasting "24/7 for 40 days, has launched a new attact in my town on my office, and I have been firing back, figuratively speaking.

A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper about the hypocrites ("Hypocrites" is what Jesus called people standing on the street corners rather than going into their closets to pray.) among the "gentle Xtains" picketing my office.  To learn more about the looming battle of Fayetteville, read below the fold.

A few days ago the WaPo printed a column about how dumb women are.  I think it garnered a few letters in opposition.  Maybe more than a few.  Most women are not stupid.  Though a few are.  And most Obama supporters are not stupid, and certainly Obama is not.  But the adolescent minded Obama attack dogs on DKos seem to fit exactly in the mode of Charlotte Allen's column on the WaPo the other day.  Let's see what she wrote.

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I have sometimes asked Americans whom I chanced to meet...whether in their opinion religion contributes to the stability of the state and the maintenance of law and order.  They always answered, without a moments hesitation, that a civilized community, especially one that enjoys the benefits of freedom, cannot exist without religion.
              Alexis de'Toqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 1

I doubt not that all the infidels and heretics of the world would, if they could, confine honor to their own absurd errors and damnable deceptions.  But when I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion, and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion, and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England. And when I mention honor, I mean that mode of divine grace which is not only consistent with, but is dependent upon this religion and is consistent with and dependent upon no other.
              Parson Thwackum, from Henry Fielding's Tom Jones      

Each morning I get an email from a young man, David Bereit national organizer of the 40 Days of Life campaing which is supposed to involve 24 hours a day/7 days a week of prayer and fasting at targeted abortion care sites around the country, one of which is my office in Fayetteville AR.  What follows beneath the fold is today's message of encouragment and "inspiration."

Medical Students For Choice is a national organization with members in a majority of America's medical schools.  Last count of members and former members? Well over 12,000.

MSFC was started by 3 young women medical students in 1994 in response to a cartoon sent to all the nation's physicians, resident and intern physicians and medical students.  This was during a wave of physician and clinic facility and worker murders, attacks and arsons.  The cartoon was supposedly about physicians who provide abortion care and was entitled "Bottom Feeders."  It was supposed to stimulate a negative reaction in medical students and doctors in training.

To see how effective Bottom Feeders has been, read below the fold:

For years, I have considered this question.  And the answer always comes out the same. Of course, the obvious answer is the typical misogynist.  The men who see women as only sex objects and the women who seek those men.  Weak men are always frightened by strong women.  So the women they seek are the young and frightened girls and women who see themselves as only sex objects, and accept almost any behavior from these men, who usually think of themselves as he-men rather than the scared little boys they actually are.  Men like this have no problem beating small children, or their wives and girl friends.  I have seen these cowed women and children for many years.  More beneath the fold:

I am always amazed that "gentle xtians" quitely praying in front of my office, or screaming and verbaly attacking my staff, my patients, myself and passersby on the side walk in front of my office seem to be totally convinced that the entire world accepts their delusions about what George Carlin calls the "invisible man in the sky who really, really loves you," but is going to send you to hell to burn and suffer forever in a lake of fire if you don't believe in him.  This is my answer to these incredibly sincere anti safe, legal abortion ignoramuses.

Below is an essay I wrote for my adult Methodist Sunday School Class in 1985 or '86, shortly after my office was firebombed and while a few to several hundreds of "gentle Christians" screamed outside my office and home every week.

Now how does this work?  I will have "gentle" XTAINS in front of my office praying and fasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 40 days?  And this will make me stop doing what I know is right?  Good luck, Xtains!

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In the Sunday NYTimes Magazine, Annie Murphy Paul had a story called FIRST ACHE, concerning fetal pain perception and its apparent link with abortion care. I read it Sunday morning and sent in a reply.  While I found much of the story accurate and informative about infant and fetal pain perception and the possible bad effects of sustained infant and fetal pain on the emotional and physical developments occuring in children who have experienced that pain in utero or in after birth events, I find her arguments that this has relevance to abortion practice totally unconvincing.

Since most of you will not read the article itself, I will post the relavent parts  and mu comments below the fold.