Check out this article at Truthdig...for best tweets etc.

My fav so far:

I may be "off my rocker", but at least I'm not talking to it.

So I was thinking....maybe a sofa? There are simply too many Republican lies for just one chair, Mr. President.

I didn't mind when Clint came over and talked to my chairs. But then I caught him with my recliner!!

Years ago--especially after the speech-lifting incident--my back turned on the then-Senator.  When he was named as the VP partner in the 2008 campaign, my mouth dropped & stayed that way for awhile.  Then, I realized the pragmatics of Pennsylvania & similar populaces...and thought "Okay" (sorta.) Gradually, I've seen the down-to-earth connection with blue collar workers that either developed or was always there...and further thought "Hmmmm, good; gets the job done; loyal."  Sure, the gaffes...but, were most of them really gaffes or "Just being Joe, saying what I feel (and all that" & kind of available to talk with the workers in the union halls, etc.  When I heard a growing clamor from the Rightwing Bunch about how bad he surely must be, my appreciation for ol' Joe Biden began to climb.

Today, I remembered how he has a prize knack for meaningful distillation. First example: "Bin Laden's dead; GM is back."  That Rightwing Bunch was flummoxed with the catchy phrase that reminds everyone of WH strength in defense & foreign policy and points out how an astute bailout action in the upper Midwest not only worked but started the movement back from the Great Recession We Inherited.   Second example: "We're for Medicare; They're for Vouchercare."  After reading that pithy statement that he confidently announced in Detroit at the big Labor Rally today (the traditional most watched labor rally) and after sharing it with some friends, the three of us happily realized that someone found a way to say it, to deliver a to-the-point message that is true & memorable.  Ol' Joe Biden does know how to deliver (with verve & a smile.)

Anyway...as to the Lizza article, I suppose there are numerous ways it could be interpreted, but here's my armchair analysis:

Both of these men have family baggage, and I believe in both cases it has marked and shaped them and scripted how they respond and react in certain situations.

Both of these men are politicians, and right now, one of them is trying to be re-elected.  What I see from Obama is more strategy in service to that end than commitment to whatever policy and ideology that strategy seems to be reflecting.  It would be nice to think the rhetoric of the campaign foretells Obama's plan for the next four years, but this is about getting elected - period.  Once that happens, we will see a return to "Grand Bargain" and "fixing entitlements" and so on, and many who thought electing Obama was going to save those from the evil Republicans will watch as Obama takes on many of the things Paul Ryan wanted to.

Both of these men are users - triangulating and parlaying and manipulating people as needed to get where they want to be; I think Clinton's better at that than Obama, only because Clinton never seems uncomfortable or ill-at-ease - he just slides right into wherever or whoever he needs to be.

15. Although unemployment is the highest it's been since the Great Depression, the federal government should NOT enact any sort of WPA-style program to put millions of people back to work.

14. Medicare, Medicaid and social security need to be cut to relieve the "deficit".

13. Climate change treaties and negotiations are to be avoided at all costs.

12. NAFTA was such a great thing it really should be extended to Central and South America and the entire Pacific rim..

11. Banks and Wall Street speculators deserve bailouts and protection from criminal liability. Underwater and foreclosed homeowners deserve no moratoriums or help.

10. Palestinians should be occupied, dispossessed and ignored. Iran should be starved and threatened from all sides. Cuba should be embargoed, and Americans prohibited from going there to see what its people have done in a half century free of Yankee rule. Black and brown babies and their parents, relatives and neighbors should be bombed with drones in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and similar places.

9. Africa should be militarized, destabilized, plundered, invaded by proxy armies or Western power aggression under the guise of "humanitarianism".

8. US Presidents can kidnap citizens of their own or any nation on earth from anyplace on the planet for torture, indefinite imprisonment without trial or murder them and neighboring family and bystanders at will.

7. Oil and energy companies, and other mega-polluters must be freed to drill offshore almost everywhere, and permitted to poison land and watersheds with fracking to achieve "energy independence.

6. The FCC should not regulate telecoms to ensure access to the poor or to guarantee network neutrality.

5. Of course there really ARE such things as "clean coal" and "safe nuclear energy.

4. Immigrants must be jailed and deported in record numbers, or locked up with little or no due process in atrocious privatized immigration prisons.

3. No Medicare For All. Forget about it eliminating the Medicare age requirement so that all Americans would qualify.

2. No minimum wage increases for you, no right to form a union, no right to negotiate or strike if you already have a union, and no enforcement or reform of existing labor laws.

1. The 40 year war on drugs must continue, and even mention of the prison state is unthinkable.

Former Representative Anthony Weiner, whose wife, Huma Abedin, is a top aide to Hillary Clinton, expressed surprise that the G.O.P. has conceded this ground.

"We've had conversations with several dozen companies and we're doing work for a number of these," said Peter Frank, who advises corporate treasurers as a principal at Pricewaterhouse. "Almost all of that has come in over the transom in the last 90 days."

Sibling rivalry of the political sort.

They remind me of my brother and I. My brother, that is, from my mother and first stepfather, who was black. Not the brother from my father and second stepmother. As Louis Armstrong said of Jazz, if you don't get it, I can't explain it to you.

We all need a visit to the planet Lovetron. Hat tip to Chocolate Thunder himself, Darryl Dawkins.

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