A Sex Scandal? How Nice!

What a relief to have a sex scandal to concentrate on.  After this past election a good sex scandal almost seems quaint.  After all, the only person Petraeus lied to was his wife.  During the campaign, the GOP seemed intent on lying to the entire country.  It reminded me of an old not so nice comment of mine:  “When a Democrat screws someone, it is usually only one person at a time.  When a Republican does it, it is the whole damn country.”  Does this mean Petraeus is a Democrat? 

So, you can imagine my horror this morning to notice a couple of articles asking whether it will be Clinton (Hilary) and Palin for President in 1916.  Let the voting machines at least cool off from this election before jumping ahead 3 years. That is when the primary elections will be so even if the general election is in four years we will be bombarded starting much earlier. 

Actually, in our house we missed all of that TV advertising.  We live so far out in the country we have a satellite dish, and the programs we watched were pretty ad free.  Of course the pundits would run a particularly offensive ad so we would know what they were commenting on, but usually it was never more than one every hour, unless the ad was so egregious that more than one pundit discussed it. 

The big other whoop-de-do of the day is Bhengazi, with John McCain doing most of the whooping.  He has forgotten, either deliberately or otherwise, that it was Congress that turned down the budget request from the State Department for more funding for security at foreign consulates and embassies.  Whether the host nation provides security or not, the US needs to make sure that the sites are secure.  Anyway, this whooping is so obviously politically motivated to make trouble for President Obama that I wonder that McCain’s colleagues and family don’t take him aside and tell him to cool it.  He is slowly losing the respect that many of us have had for him for years.   

Other than trying not to fall off a non-existent “fiscal cliff” (non-existent because it is something the Republicans manipulated into existence), a sex scandal involving the highest intelligence officer in the nation, starting the 1916 Presidential race already, another Republican made scandal involving the incidents in Benghazi, there is not too much to write about. 

For my readers in the United States, I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!