Topics to cover and ponder over in the political campaigns:

• Hillary says the surge was to give space and time for the Iraqis to get their legislation program together and they didn’t. Leaves me to wonder - there was no obstacle in the way of a Democratic Congress, and yet they got nothing done.
• I saw Hillary on Meet the Press with Tim Russert. She must have used the word “context” twenty times. The word means environment setting and parts of a discourse. The word can be used to be able to deny and to cover up, as Huckabee did when he brought up Romney being a Mormon - how crude.
• Senator John Cornyn presented an amendment that would have permanently banned gang members, terrorists, sex offenders, alien absconders, those convicted of domestic violence, and aliens convicted of three DUIs in the United States from becoming legal immigrants. The amendment was defeated by 51-46 and guess what? McCain voted against it!
• Former Senator Tim Hutchinson from Arkansas comparing Huckabee to Reagan made me want to vomit.
• John McCain and the Huckster protests their records being brought up. That does not compute.
• Bob Johnson of BET bringing up Obama’s use of cocaine when young. Andrew Cuomo, New York State Attorney General, saying Obama’s speeches were “Shuck and Jive”. Bill Shaheen, co-chair of Hillary’s campaign inferring that Obama was a drug pusher and Bill Clinton calling Obama’s remarks a fairy tale and you tell me the Clinton administration is not racists and pigs fly!
• The Clintons claim that they have done so much for African Americans. Can you tell me what? I know Bill played golf with some high and mighty African-Americans who are isolated from their African-American people in the lower class. Bush placed more African-Americans in his administration, including Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Colin Powell and many others.
• The average of polls produced by Real Clear Politics include polls by CNN, Zogby, USA Today/Gallup, NBC/WSJ, and Rasmussen and the average is heavily influenced by the Clinton News Network. See attached:

General Election: Giuliani vs. Clinton

Polling Data Poll Date Sample Giuliani (R) Clinton (D) Und Spread RCP Average 12/12 - 01/10 - 44.8 47.2 9.0 Clinton +2.4 CNN 01/09 - 01/10 840 RV 42 55 – Clinton (D) +13.0 Rasmussen 12/17 - 12/18 800 LV 45 44 11 Giuliani (R) +1.0 NBC/WSJ 12/14 - 12/17 1008 A 43 46 4 Clinton (D) +3.0 USA Today/Gallup 12/14 - 12/16 906 RV 48 49 – Clinton (D) +1.0 Zogby 12/12 - 12/14 1000 LV 46 42 12 Giuliani (R) +4.0 See All General Election: Giuliani vs. Clinton Polling Dat

• Congress is always wanting to investigate one thing or another. They should investigate something of substance, such as mortgage fraud from across the country and put about 1000 crooks in jail. However, they are attuned to try to smash Republicans.
• Huckabee, just another good ole boy from Arkansas, reminds me of Lonesome Roads in the movie “A Face in the Crowd.” Check it out. It shows nothing has changed in politics since the 50s and how a good ole boy can lead and sway voters with deception and humor - a case of art leading life.
• I love the way The New York Times denigrates our Iraqi and Afghanistan returning veterans, inferring that they come back killers - 160,000 murders a year in the USA and veterans have committed 121 of them. Not a great percentage of the total. I wonder if the Times checked out how many blacks, Latinos, Arabs, Asians, and Caucasian civilians.
• Bill Clinton just saying that Hillary will send troops into Darfur, a black country having genocide and other problems. I have one question… why didn’t Bill, when he was President, do something about it? Seems to me another way to use the race issue. I have a lot of questions about their use of divergent issues to divide the black vote. What else would you expect from a Clinton?
• Bloomberg’s group of old politicians meeting to help decide if he should run as a third party candidate. If he does, it will be on the order of Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party - also Perot, when he got 19 percent and put Clinton in the White House. Bloomberg, with billions, might get 20 percent, but all it will do is cause more partisanship that he is so concerned about.
• People who vote because of gender or race and also religion are less than concerned citizens in my view. And apparently Baptists, of which I am a member, are voting for Huckabee because of this. This is shameful.
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act that Hillary and Obama are fighting over should have something else added to it. The Act would never have been passed had it not been for the Republican party, as most of the Democrats were against it, and one of those Democrats is in the Senate, Robert Byrd, and he is an ex-KKK official.
• One final thing - did the courts ever tell Clinton what the definition of “is” is?

May God continue to bless the USA.