So I haven't actually ran on the treadmill for a couple of weeks due to a pulled gluteal muscle (in laymans terms I had a pain in the ass) and I've opted for the elliptical in the meantime. I got brave last night and gave the full-on running a go. 27:28 - that would be a new personal best thank you very much. It goes without saying that my legs aren't very happy with me today.
BTW, let me dip my toe in the water. If I were a democrat I would be supporting Hillary Clinton. There is not much to choose between her, Obama and Edwards in what they say but the Clintons have a way of triangulation that moves them to the centre. Edwards drives me crazy with his class-warfare B.S. and Obama time is coming but it is not now. I hope all their protectionism is just for party consumption because even though Canadians seem to love Democrats their anti-trade positions would be bad for us.
If I were a Republican I would be supporting Mitt Romney. The guy has tonnes of executive experience. In the private sector through Bain Capital, through bailing out the Salt Lake City Olympics and his being the Governor of Massachusetts. I can't stand John McCain - George Will said it best on an ABC panel, McCain is an angry man. See the above on the Democrats for why I don't like Huckabee. Fred Thomson has not lived up to his promise and there is something about Guliani that rubs me the wrong way.
But I am not American so everything I've jsut written is irrelevant. But that is nothing new for me.
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I don’t understand the Canadian love affair with the Dems either. They are just Republicans with smaller cars.
Posted by Greg | January 10, 2008 8:06 PM
Posted on January 10, 2008 20:06
You won’t get the nice-guy exterior combined with (relatively) sensible pragmatism under Hillary that you got under Bill. This is one mean beeyatch who is both a committed warmonger and a welfaremonger. A true-blue neocon. A lot of middle eastern cities and a lot of jobs and investment in the USA are going to get crushed until this lady makes it clear to everyone that she won’t be trifled with.
‘Bama is an inexperienced puppy but he doesn’t seem to have a massive ego that needs constant stroking, or brain damage from decades of binge drinking and snorting coke. Of all the candidates he would probably govern the most like Bill Clinton. Which means, badly, but not as badly as those who came before or afterwards.
Edwards strikes me as a dunce - a worthy successor of algore and John Kerry. And no, he doesn’t have a smaller car (or house) than the Republicans.
Romney acts and sounds vaguely conservative, but under the surface he’s another socialist who will continue expanding government as fast as possible in all directions. The Huckster is basically the same, with a veneer of Christian hypocrisy.
Ron Paul is the smartest and most honest of anyone running for president. Those who dismiss Ron Paul and his platform are profoundly and defiantly ignorant of economics and history, and notably deficient in common sense. (Do they really think that borrowing $$$Billions from foreigners in order to blow up half the middle east, convince the other half to join the insurgents, and drive the price of oil to the moon and the USD to the cellar is a good thing? I admit it’s very Churchillian, but in my books bankrupting your country while making everyone living in the third world hate your guts is a bad thing.)
Posted by Mebbe not | January 13, 2008 10:06 PM
Posted on January 13, 2008 22:06