Catching Up on Politics and the Start of Clinton's Campaign

I've allowed myself to get too busy to blog very much for weeks now.  And I've kept my mind away from politics for even longer (for the most part).  Ok, that is not really completely true - it is something that I think about.  But I've been far too depressed in the period immediately following the mid-term elections to put too much effort into it.  Always the optimist (at least underneath), I had thought that we might see some changes after the current administration had an opportunity to learn through the elections.

No such luck.  So rather than get too depressed about it, I just stopped spending very much energy on it all. 

It will be a long time down the road before I have any idea on who I would support to be the nation's next chief executive.  I have no idea if that will be Ms. Clinton.  But in the meantime, I at least got to read something intelligent recently from a politician:

" 'I know how difficult the last six years have been, particularly because of this president’s foreign policy, his preemptive war in Iraq, his management of the war and his stubborn refusal to change course,” she said. “We have to get the balance right between defending our country and deterring those who wish us ill, as they still do, and ending the alienation toward us in the rest of the world.' " (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28clinton.html?em&ex=1170219600&en=cc8bfcb00fca2c3f&ei=5087%0A)

Earlier in that same article , I laughed at the following:

" 'When you’re attacked, you have to deck your opponents,” Mrs. Clinton said to some laughter and applause. “You can count on me to stand my ground and fight back.' "  Somehow, I suspect that regardless of where we find ourselves in two years, I'll be entertained along the way.  Though I'll probably be doing more crying at the ridiculous assault on American civil liberty until the time comes when we have the opportunity to elect someone who will defend something so precious.