**They're baaacckkkk and so is Hillary

A few days ago, I missed one of those classic photos. A small neighbor girl and her smaller brother had picked some dandelions out of our weedy grass and were proudly walking up the sidewalk with their bouquet in their hands held out in front of them. Anyway, the yellow pests look good in photos even if they look like crap in the grass.

Meanwhile, she's baaaackkkk too. Hillary Clinton is scheduled to be in Sioux Falls today sometime around 2:15PM at an airport hanger as she flits from the east to the west coast..Oregon perhaps.

As anybody reading this blog for very long knows, I preferred John Edwards even with his southern accent compared to Hillary or Obama. My respect for Hillary has dropped more and more as she has campaigned more and more desperately with less and less integrity. Hillary is getting her high negative ratings the old fashioned way, she has earned them.

And, I do hope somebody in the press or in the crowd will ask Hillary why we should ever support her or anybody else who supported the Bush war powers in Iraq as a presidential candidate or any other kind of a candidate. That decision was so fundamentally wrong from the obvious facts and for the constitutional reasons that it cannot be justified retroactively and it could not be justified prior to the vote. The ONLY reason for her supporting the Iraq war was in the hopes of pulling in the wingnut loons of the right who are blinded by the flag they think waves only for them. It was a desperate expedient amoral vote and it will be that forever. Whatever legacy Hillary had, it disappeared with that vote. It had already been tarnished by her votes for big banks, big credit card operations, bankruptcy legislation, etc.

We do not need another president in the White House who will take any position on any issue simply in the interests of pandering to the loudest most well-financed groups.

***Stay tuned even if you love both Hillary and Dandelions--- Doug Wiken<