Word Salads

Vegetarians must have loved the Democrat debate last night ... it was nothing but a bunch of word salads ... and Biden's lettuce was a little wilted. All the front-runner candidates offered panel-tested and over-rehearsed answers that seldom matched the questions asked. 

The other missing ingredient was genuineness ... and this is the Achilles heel of the once-party of Jefferson and Jackson. These bozos cannot win the presidency by being a bunch of Chatty Cathy robots.

The degree of melodramatic arm-waving, spittle-flecked mendacity, pathetic pandering, silly zingers and desperate demagoguery was mostly universal and sadly, quite disappointing. 

Again, word salads were the entire menu of the evening. Joe Biden got the mercy vote and survived  only because he was the least emotive and obnoxious ... but not by much.

Power Through

I can't count the times that Hellary Clinton, Bill Clinton, her numerous surrogates, and the talking dunderheads in the obliging media have used the term "power through" to describe what Hellary was trying to do last week when she attended the 9/11 memorial ceremonies. She supposedly had a previously-diagnosed case of pneumonia and, despite this well-circulated term suggesting her metaphoric vigor (like a power fullback plowing through the line) ... ended up having a "health episode" which I will leave it to you to recall visually.

Now, she just used this term again today in North Carolina as she, after a three day convalescence, is back on the campaign trail saying that "I had a cough that turned into pneumonia and I thought I could 'power through' it." Barf! The use of this term has obviously been panel-tested ... put out as a talking point to the lap-dog media ... and implies that she is gutsy and resolute. However, since she went all wobbly on 9/11, she obviously didn't "power through" things very well. This term is clearly a lot more gutsy and resolute than she.