Blast From the Past for Future Reference

Charles Pierce had a link up to this old posting from Tbogg. Thought I should put a post up with it so I can have easy reference to it. It'll likely come in handy now and then on the way to November.

Every year in Happy Gumdrop Fairy-Tale Land all of the sprites and elves and woodland creatures gather together to pick the Rainbow Sunshine Queen. Everyone is there: the Lollipop Guild, the Star-Twinkle Toddlers, the Sparkly Unicorns, the Cookie Baking Apple-cheeked Grandmothers, the Fluffy Bunny Bund, the Rumbly-Tumbly Pupperoos, the Snowflake Princesses, the Baby Duckies All-In-A-Row, the Laughing Babies, and the Dykes on Bikes. They have a big picnic with cupcakes and gumdrops and pudding pops, stopping only to cast their votes by throwing Magic Wishing Rocks into the Well of Laughter, Comity, and Good Intentions. Afterward they spend the rest of the night dancing and singing and waving glow sticks until dawn when they tumble sleepy-eyed into beds made of the purest and whitest goose down where they dream of angels and clouds of spun sugar.

You don’t live there.

Grow the fuck up.

And that's OK because I occasionally like to get pissed off. Despite the best efforts of my fellow upstaters, Hillary Clinton won New York and good on that.

Speaking of Tbogg, he has this post up that shares my relief that we are not going to be running Bernie for the presidency. It includes this link to the WashPo that discusses Bernie's interview with the Daily News. Sanders, Trump and Funiciello share the trait of not having proposals that stand up to a lot of scrutiny.

A large part of Sanders’s appeal to the throngs who back him is his insistence that we are in need of a political revolution. And, for those people, the Daily News interview will be much ado about nothing. But what the interview exposes is that once the revolution happens there will be lots of loose ends to tie up. Loose ends that Sanders either hasn’t grappled with — or doesn’t want to.

Remember that Sanders’s campaign began as the longest of long shots. He could propose the world and more because no one thought that he ever had a chance at winning.