Starlings and Politics
It's a rainy night... In fact it's been raining off and on all day, so we've got no new bird pictures... Bummer... Nothing to do but dredge through the old bird picture library, and have a coffee-table chat with the results of that search... Alrighty then, let's get started... (Uh oh...)
Let it be said that there are no poor photograghs, only poorly implemented pics or photos bearing less-than-rich descriptions and ponderings. Consider the shot below...
Some would judge that image a complete loss... Not on this end. Not even close. I see today's presidential battle being played out in feathers...
Note the way that the starling on the left appears to have jumped "out of her feet". I'd equate that to Hillary being stunned and rocked by the rise of Barack - that flittering blur to the right. The still bird in the foreground makes for a wonderful John McCain - dumbfounded by the frenzy of the "Democrat Duel". Here's a quick breakdown as I see it...
- Senator Clinton is on her heels politically. The "Clinton Machine" never expected the dynamo that is Obama. Little issues like admitting that she "misspoke" about being under sniper fire hasn't helped the former First Lady either. (I've been on the wrong end of a gun... I don't think that I will ever forget the exact circumstances or "misspeak" about them.)
- Senator Obama is picking up delegates and super delegates by the day. But all he needs to do is utter another phrase as condescending as the following and Ms.
Clinton is right back in this race.
"And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations..."
- Senator John McCain too has stuck his foot in his mouth. On May 2nd of this year, he stated:
"And I just want to promise you this... My friends, I will have an energy policy, that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East. “That will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.”
Nice going John... Not only did you bumble the GOP, but you also managed to undercut the American Ethos of the last 67 years... Did McCain forget JFK's 1961 inaugural address... The part that read,
"Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
That's right... And we'll never return to France or Kosovo either, regardless of the need - after all, those skirmishes were all about oil too... (Just wondering... Did the Arizona senator forget about those 6 million Iraqis who risked their lives to vote? Details, details...)
Ah birds, and ah politics...
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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