The real American motto:

I got mine, so screw you

This is a variation of the popular

Everybody should just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

It seems to be pretty easy for the privledge in the US to extort that it was just their hard work and smarts that resulted in their success.  Most of us know this isn’t true.  It usually involves the family they were born in and the privledges they received before they could even tie their own shoes.  Throw in a big helping of greed that virtually all large corporations subscribe to and you have Republicans.

Put a fork in it — it is done.  Obama-Bayh will be the ticket.  Well, I don’t like it at all.  Bayh is ok but Obama should have picked Hillary.  Why?  Because the primary was nearly tied and the voters picked Clinton as the VP.   Obama should have offered it to her immediately and let her decide whether she wanted it.  Instead, there is unending drama over this issue as McCain continues to improve in the polls.  Hillary tried to explain in the primary that Obama wasn’t ready for the attacks the Republicans would make.  Pretty clear now that she was right.  Meanwhile, Edwards little news about baby mama that if disclosed prior to Iowa may have changed the nomination in a significant way.  Well, Obama can still be elected but given that this should have been a landslide year for Democrats, it is disheartening that some old war mongering fart like McCain can still be in this and could even win.  I guess the old joke is right — Democrats will always fail they just never know how they will do it.

Let’s be clear.  Edwards was scum for cheating on his wife.  Elizabeth should kick his butt to the curb because John is a bad husband.  Yet, this is up to Elizabeth and John;  however, I think it is ridiculous to conclude Edwards would not be a good President just because he can’t keep his penis in check.   I think Edwards’ views on poverty, corporate greed, etc. are all well reasoned and have nothing to do with his willingness to cheat on his wife.  Meanwhile, Nixon and W probably never had an affair and they were some of the worst Presidents ever.

I am often reminded that the religious right who are condemning John for infidelity are all in favor of capital punishment, denying health care to all Americans which lead to many deaths each year, and paying employees at Walmart a non-living wage,  Each of these examples are more immoral that what John “I can’t control my penis” Edwards did.

America is on some big moral high horse which is just another manifestation of the crazy religious component of America life.  I’m surprise we don’t still stone people for infidelity.  However, it might be hard for John to be able to tell the difference politically.  Meanwhile, Europe scratches their head trying to figure out what was so wrong about what John did.