Why do we not ask our candidates how they would address the shocking high school dropout rates in many of our nation's cities and rural areas? Where is the talk of providing solid and equal ladders of opportunity in the delta or the black belt of the south? Instead of the negative blasting between the Obamas and Clintons, where are the loud and proud solutions to the ongoing injustice, black, white and elderly, that is on vivid display within our nation's healthcare system, a system so rotten that many of our people are subject to inhumanity in of all things, their health? How did we all allow ourselves to become so embroiled in such tawdry rhetoric when it comes to engaging, challenging and getting to know our would be public servants, especially, our President?
"And while I was in Florida, I asked some people are you upset as voters about being potentially disenfranchised at the Democratic Convention"? said the biker.
Suddenly, the instigator of the gym pundits returned from his trance, and inner rant, continuing yet again in his punditry.
What the biker found in the Sunshine State was several of those quizzed in hanging-chad land had apparently given up on their voices ever being heard in this contest, shrugging it all off and saying "well, I guess so," he reported."
That state is so discombobulated," he said as he wondered aloud.
Then, the biker shared an example of the political "meanness" floating around liberal rumor land about Clinton. A co-worker of his who is an Obama supporter, apparently is under the false impression that if Senator Clinton does not win the Democratic nomination, she would then resign as Senator of New York.
"That would prove she just used New York," the pundit's co-worker allegedly said to which both proceeded to take to blasting the apparent hate expressed by some Obama supporters towards Clinton as her supporters feel increasingly alienated by people with whom they thought they had shared values.
He then said "look, it's not that I don't like Obama, I just like Hillary "more" and I think she could win against McCain and I'm sick of people who say she ought to quit."
"Don't these people know history?"
He went on to remind the others that in 1976, current Obama supporter, then Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Edward Kennedy, entered the summer behind candidate Jimmy Carter by 24 states to ten, further trailing Carter by 2.4 million popular votes yet he still did not drop out of the race. Instead, Kennedy took his fight all the way to the convention floor, intent on somehow wrestling a victory from the party.
Carter of course went on to become the nation's 39th President."I'm really tired of all these whining babies who complain about how the party is being torn apart, this is politics," said the biker who said it's Clinton that stands the only chance in winning a general election.
"If they think things are ugly now, just wait until November, I mean, what the hell are they thinking, she'll kick their ass," he said.
As the night moved on, a glance over at the leg's section of the gym brought dread as the observer of the night's discussion contemplated squats. But then, almost like a convenient distortion from the physical pain that awaited, a curious thought popped up.
A certain news story from earlier that day had not grown legs of its own.
Earlier that day, "Reuters' had reported on a Quinnipiac University poll that served up a dose of reality from the ground, news that anyone who calls himself a political junkie ought to partake of and ponder if they are curious about truths of what to expect come November.
The poll, not only found Hillary Clinton ahead of Barack Obama 50 to 41 percent in Pennsylvania, the report said she runs better against Republican Senator John McCain in that same state as well as discombobulated Florida and the buckeye state Ohio.
