Bitter Unity?

Ok, so while on vacation I've given myself 15 minutes of surfing. After going to a few of my favorite blogs, I moved on to the news of the day (I have my priorities you know). Well I am not sure exactly what day yet, since an 8 hour time difference makes my days and nights all disconbobulated at the moment, but I digress.

My local paper not giving me all the information I was looking for - except to see that my beloved Chicago Cubs are winning on the road, I purused the New York Times, and came across an article of how the Obama and Clinton campaigns are trying to work together to bring unity to the party. So let's discuss blow by blow.

1. Harden Hillary supporters are still up in arms over Obama clinching the nomination and will not support Obama. my response.....get over yourselves! What are the reasons? Is it policy or experienced based? Or is it that you just don't like him. We, as democrats, need as much support and unity as we can get if we want to win in November. Let's all remember the end result.

2. This "symbolic" gesture of Obama writing a check to the Clinton campaign to help her out with her $+12 million debt. Seriously?! Like this woman and her husband don't have enough money to pay off their own debt. Didn't they start a website to ask people for money to help them with their Whitewater legal bills? Why not do the same now? Quick question, would she write him a check, symbolicly showing that she is behind him?

3. Obama hiring Clinton's people for his own campaign. One gripe Clinton supporters have is that " Mr. Obama’s campaign had made only a perfunctory effort to hire Clinton staff members; the Clinton campaign payroll is ending for most employees in less than a week." Don't we all know that when we work for a campaign that there is a 50/50 chance that you'll be out of a job? Isn't this the chance to take when working for a campaign. Surely they can't be claiming they are poor.

4. I am going to end with this, because I could go on and on and on about this article but this one struck me as a little off. "They are discussing whether Mr. Obama’s campaign will provide a plane and staff for Mrs. Clinton as she travels on his behalf." Does this sound like she wants to be paid off for endorcing Obama. To me it sounds as though she is thinking "well, if he wants me to go away and support him, then he is going to have to pay me for it" Who talks like that?! Do any other people who endorse a candidate get their own plane and staff? Hitch a ride with Obama?! I am sure the DNC has some money to help her out, but maybe it's beneath her to not only endorse the soon to be Democratic nominee, but also any other democrat that might be in that particular state, district, etc.

Obviously I have my own unity issues with Hillary Clinton and her supporters. Hey, if they want to have their own party- go ahead. They seem to know what's better anyway. But come November when we are still going to be stuck in this war, our gas is going to cost $6 a gallon and we aren't any better off, you'll see a "don't blame me my mam voted for Obama" bumpersticker on realpolitik toddler's Sit and Stroll.

Travel anxiety

Tomorrow, realpolitik son and I leave for a 7 week vacation. (maybe I'll rename my blog realvacation mama for a few weeks) So the past 10 days I've begun to organizing myself to pack. My bedroom has become a large staging area for all of the things I need to take along. Surprisingly being gone for 7 weeks, I don't need to pack a lot in terms of clothes, but there are other things that I need to take a long and that is what is taking up a lot of room in my suitcase. So we are on the last 24 hours of being in the windy city and feel like I am not ready. I've made this trip numerous times in my life, so I know exactly where I am going and what I will find there, so I am not sure why I am having so much anxiety of this trip, specifically.

Hopefully this will all pass, because after 2pm tomorrow afternoon, there won't be much I can do about the situation.

BTW, for those who are wondering - all 2 of you that read this blog. I am planning on bringing the laptop. Internet access will be limited where I am, but I do hope to hop on the speedy Internet a few times to blog, and give you updates on what I have an opinion on. One thing though.....someone is going to have to keep my in the loop with some of the political stuff because just like the Internet my access to US papers, magazines, etc will be limited. Ahhh of all times to go out of the country and miss all the excitement. So email me and let me know!

FREE PRODUCT!

I forwarded an email to one of my mom friends last week about super cute hair clippy's for her daughter. I have to live vicariously through someone with a girl, realpolitik son hates wearing a hat, let a lone cute clippy's. So we talked about it later and she asked "How do you find all this stuff?" I had to explain that I am a product junkie. Product primarily means skin care stuff, but it has expanded to include cute baby gear, clothing, bags, and almost anything I can get my hands on.

I do indulge every once in a while and purchase cute diaper bags, stationary, and other small things, but I do have to limit myself, and I am proud to so, do a good job at it. Everything else I find, I keep an eye on or file in my favorites to look at later when it comes to gifts. But not anymore! This afternoon, a friend of mine, pointed me in the direction of PRIZEY! OMG, I am in LOVE!!! More product to look at and now, not only new places to find things to purchase, but also get for free. Free, I said! How fantastic! Now, I am not going to be one of those people who is going to sign up for every contest, but don't be surprised if it has anything to do with skin care, clothing, travel accessories, etc. I am so there! While I wish I could keep this site all to myself, I had to share with others. Consider this my community service for the week.

My Sundays

Much to my mother and probably priest's chagrin, a majority of my Sundays for the past several of years has not included church but rather a big cup of coffee, the Chicago Tribune, and for one hour Meet the Press. As I am sure you know by now, I love the show and it's host Tim Russert. So today when I flipped on the television, I took the news of Tim Russert's death pretty hard. Partly because I think I secretly would have liked to be Tim Russert, in terms of being a journalist asking great questions about politics to politicians, but also because he wasn't only a journalist, and political junkie but a good son, father, sports enthusiast and all around nice man. When I worked in D.C. I happened to be in an elevator with him once, and while we just exchanged "hello's", I could sense that he was a genuinely nice man.

I am not sure what my Sundays will be like now, the coffee and the Trib will always be there, it's Tim Russert on Meet the Press that I will miss the most. I am sure Father George will probably see a little more of me on Sundays, but when Sunday afternoon rolls around and I want something to talk about with friends I won't have Mr. Russert's good hard hitting questions to quote to help make my point.

He is so B.U.S.T.E.D.

I am not sure if where you live there is as much news coverage of the R. Kelly trial, but here in the land of not so big news, it has been mentioned in every television, newspaper and radio for the past couple of weeks. About a week or so ago, news broke that Chicago Sun-Times music critic ,Jim DeRogatis, had to testify. Now if you are like the majority of people I know, you have no clue why Jim DeRogatis would be called to testify in the child pornography case, let me tell you some back story.

Allegedly, Jim DeRogatis, music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, was given this tape by someone, held on to it for a period of time, THEN proceeded to give it to police. There is a questionable gap of time between when Mr. DeRogatis received the tape and when he turned it over to police. So defense attorneys want to know how long he had the tape, who else has seen the tape and if he duplicated the tape. Mr. DeRogatis and the Sun Times made a big stink about being subpoenaed, and after filing some appeals he took the stand but pleaded the 5th amendment when he was placed on the stand.

So, here is why I think Mr. DeRogatis is so BUSTED. Having knowledge of and actually possessing child pornography is a crime. No sh*t he isn't testifying. I am not sure if anyone else has thought of this, but who is to say Mr. DeRogatis doesn't possess other such tapes, photos, etc. Hey Sun Times, care to check your employee's computer? Not being an attorney, I am not too sure of all the in's and out's, but I don't believe that this would fall under the first amendment; but doesn't pleading the 5th for fear of self incrimination put up some red flags that there is something else there?


OK, full disclosure. I am not a big fan of Jim DeRogatis as a music critic, so maybe I just see this as my way the little weasel gets some payback.

Jumping the Wall

Firewall that is. After a full week of not being able to access any webpages that need passwords - including my blog account, I've jumped the wall and now everything is back to normal!
I have a whole list of issues to discuss with you all, including R. Kelly, Hillary Clinton, and children's haircuts, but it will have to wait at least until nap time. Until then!