Scattered Notes

How the Democrats Can Lose in '08 — With the email announcement she sent out this morning, it's all but official that Hillary Clinton will be running for president. If she is selected as the Democratic candidate for president in 2008, then America will be guaranteed another four years at least of detrimental Republican failures.

I know that Hillary Clinton would make a great president, and I would love to see her in office. But Republicans hate her like they hate no other. To them, she's about on the same level as Satan, and there's no rallying cry that would bring out the Religious Righteous in droves—not gay marriage, not abortion, not gun control—than "Don't let Hillary Clinton become President!"

The attack on her would be fiercer and more vicious than on any previous Democratic candidate, and the Rush Limbaugh's and Ann Coulter's would try to tear her apart like the wild dogs they are. The Righteous would gladly take more blood in Iraq than Mrs. Clinton as president. They would gladly take invasion of privacy and suspension of habeas corpus. The weakening of American's standing in the world, the continuing reliance on oil and disregard for the environment, corporate welfare, worthless educational programs, voter fraud—anything other than Mrs. Clinton as president.

I also don't feel the swing vote would swing her way, especially with the stream of lies and propaganda that the Republican Advertising Machine will spew out. Don't underestimate the power the R.A.M.—it got an idiot elected twice (well, once really). And let's face the facts: the United States tends to be slightly more Republican than Democratic.

We can't afford another Republican in the Oval Office. We can't afford to let the Religious Righteous continue to dictate policy. They need a good, swift kick in the face. The only way to deliver it is for the Democrats to choose the candidate who has the best chance of winning over swing voters and a good number of voters who might normally vote Republican. I say Barack Obama is the one.Musings on Hillary Clinton's chances of winning in 2008.

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Recruit One, Recruit Them All — The US Army recently spent $200 million dollars on a marketing firm to come up with their new slogan: "Army Strong." What marvelous words! The ingenuity! The succinctness! Definitely worth 200 Nobel Prizes in Literature.

Now, as we all know, the Army has been experiencing recruiting woes ever since the Iraq War began going downhill shortly after Bush's cover-girl photo-op aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. I don't know whether the new slogan will help out or not, but I truly hope that next time the Army will spend these huge sums of money on protecting the soldiers stuck in Bush's Iraqi morass.

To that end I thought, in the spirit of patriotic duty, that I would offer, for free, a supplemental slogan and recruiting poster. They need to know they don't have to pay $200 million for this stuff. Of course, my work may not have quite the suppleness of "Army Strong," but it's a good mix of the classic and the realistic, and has a nice internal rhyme which emphasizes the important parts.

I hereby declare that the United States Army may use the below poster and all words within in any way, shape, or form, without charge:

my advertising suggestion to improve recruiting performance for the United States Army.

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