Clinton plans campaign trip to Michigan [Freeper Alert]

DETROIT (AP) Former President Bill Clinton was expected to make a campaign visit to Michigan next month for gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and other Democrats.

Several campaign events are planned for the Sept. 13 visit, but no details were made available.

``He wants to support Democrats in any way possible in a state that's been very good to him. Michigan truly benefited from the president's economic policies,'' Ben Kohrman, spokesman for the Michigan Democratic Party, told the Detroit Free Press for a Wednesday story.

The former president, who has made many paid speeches since leaving office in 2001, has made only a few campaign appearances, Kohrman said.

But he was expected to pick up the pace as the general election nears, Kohrman said.

``He can light fires as few can under the Democratic rank and file,'' said Craig Ruff, a political consultant with Public Sector Consultants in Lansing. ``He has the charisma and charm that few ever will have.''

He also has the ability to raise bundles of cash for Democratic candidates, said pollster Ed Sarpolus of the Lansing-based polling firm EPIC/MRA.

Republicans are comparing the actions of the ex-president with issues involving Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara, who hired Granholm as the county's chief lawyer in 1994. Republicans say Granholm, the state attorney general, is a product of the McNamara political machine.

``A lot of people in Michigan were disgusted with the manner that he left office, with the pardons and the donations to his library,'' said Jason Brewer, spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, speaking of Clinton. ``We can easily make a fairly strong correlation between that and the patronage and privilege that Ed McNamara has been doling out for years.''

``That attack has been tried before in the primary and it hasn't gotten anywhere,'' he said.

The mere fact that Bubba Rex not only gets press coverage but can raise Democrat dollars is a sickening commentary on the state of our Republic. We are failing the litmus test - Bubba's red nose is a warning indicator.

It is going to take a long time and/or a dramatic event on a scale greater than 9/11 to wake us up and send the Clinton machine to the junkyard of history.

As for '...struggling to remind himself...' No struggle there, I'm afraid. He lives in a psychological dimension where he is, really is still running for office. He sees these other candidates as just extensions of his own marvelous, wonderful self. I find it horrifically riveting that there are so many 'Americans' agreeing with him. When will this farce end...?

I find it horrifically riveting that there are so many 'Americans' agreeing with him. When will this farce end...?

Well I've attempted to put a curse on Weird Bill to that end with my birthday greeting to him:

Dear Mr. Clinton, this birthday greeting I send:
I was delighted to see your perverted reign end.
No more Monica nor interns by the score
Now you have to go hire your own jailbait whores.
No more speeches which no one can remember.
No more phony holiday greetings in December.
No more would I hear about Arkansas chic
Whilst you hung around with the Kennedy clique
No more quibbling about "is"'s definition
No more dreadful false acts of contrition
No more protestations of love for a witch
Though indeed we're still stuck with the bitch.
You are gone and a good man's there in your stead
One who doesn't hire out old Abe Lincoln's bed.
But still I send you, this birthday, my most grievous curse
Not death or destruction, but for you something far worse:
May you never wash away the pungent stain
Of your maladroit, corrupting and twisted reign
May the truth be told about you from this day on
And may the public in revulsion say "Bill, begone!"
May you be forced to get out of the world's face
And years from now, unmourned, may you die in disgrace.

I've never put a hex on someone before so I don't know how effective it will be. ;)

Regards, Ivan

I keep thinking about the final scene from Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus":

Faustus: O Faustus
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn'e perpetually.
Stand still you every moving Spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come.
Faire natures eye, rise, rise again and make
Perpetual day: or let this hour be but a year,
A month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent, and save his soul.
O lente lente currite noctis equi:
The Stars move still, Time runs, the Clock will strike.
The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd.
O I'll leap up to heaven: who pulls me down?
One drop of bloud will save me; oh my Christ,
Rend not my heart, for naming of my Christ.
Yet will I call on him: O spare me Lucifer.
Where is it now? 'tis gone.
And see a threatening Arm, an angry Brow.
Mountains and Hills, come, come, and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of heaven.
No? Then will I headlong run into the earth:
Gape earth; O no, it will not harbor me.
You Stars that reigned at my nativity,
Whose influence hath allotted death and hell;
Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist,
Into the entrails of yon laboring cloud,
That when you vomit forth into the air
My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths,
But let my soul mount, and ascend to heaven.

The watch strikes

O half the hour is past: 'twill all be past anon:
O, if my soul must suffer for my sin,
Impose some end to my incessant pain:
Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years,
A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd.
No end is limited to damned souls.
Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul?
Or why is this immortal that thou hast?
O Pythagoras Metempsychosis; were that true,
This soul should fly from me, and I be changed
Into some brutish beast.
All beasts are happy, for when they die,
Their souls are soon dissolved in elements,
But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
Curst be the parents that engendered me;
No Faustus, curse thy self, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.

The clock strikes twelve

It strikes, it strikes; now body turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
O soul be changed into small water drops,
and fall into the Ocean ne're be found.

Thunder, and enter the devils.

O mercy heaven, look not so fierce on me;
Adders and serpents let me breathe awhile:
Ugly hell gape not; come not Lucifer,
I'll burn my books; oh Mephistopheles! Exeunt

I can imagine Bill repenting at the very last moment because he knows that he is going to Hell. And while I am not usually hasty in suggesting that people are indeed hellbound, it is hard to see how it could be otherwise with him.

Regards, Ivan

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