My Andy Pettitte 'honesty will set you free' rave is now leaving my mental foyer.

Why the delay?

My muckraker medulla asked 'What's the angle on honesty?'

'Where's the story in straightforwardness?'

But after a very frustrating week for 'progressives' (never EVER use the L word!)...the mini-rave is loose.
Obama says Hillary misrepresents.
Hillary says Obama misleads.

Miz-direction vs. Ms-direction.

Which leads to more misery - leverage for the GOP.

Unacceptable.

The GOP does not get another term - not until those 37 huge oil spills have been cleaned up.

I like Mac better than W.
That's not hard to do.

But Mac's much more righty than Hillary or Obama are lefties.
He's not what we need now.
A wild horse to tame wild horses?
Enough with the Cowboy motif.
Maverick Mac is still very GOP - not the independent he pretends to be.

John Wayne R.I.P.

Timetable or no, the goal is out of Iraq.
For more reasons than fit into just one rave.

Mac talks 'finish the commitment.'
But he won't have to walk the talk.
Yes, he courageously survived Hanoi Hilton.
So that means more kids who aren't the sons of an admiral have to go through what he did without the attention of the President himself?!?!

???

Let's keep John McCain's uniform in mothballs.

We invaded Iraq based on lies of just a few.
Commitment voided.

Halliburton & Blackwater want to stay?
Those guys are technically independent contractors.
Contract voided.

By my count, we've lived 8 total years of political progress in my lifetime.

My math:

I was born in 1964.

The first two years of LBJ's full term were progress. The Great Society. But Republican - peaceniks that they were - used LBJ's commitment to Vietnam to undermine the progress. And said the Great Society was too expensive for taxpayers - even though Vietnam was the real money toilet.

Now add in the first two years of Carter: the progress was he wasn't Nixon or Nixon's pardoner. Then that old invoice for Vietnam was due. Reagan showed up to bury the body.

Finally, add the middle 4 years of Bill Clinton's 8.

43 - 8 = 35 too many years of Republican presidents and backdraft.

Check my numbers - I'm not very quanty.

So put the Andy Pettitte filter in the mouths and minds of Hillary and Obama.

It's a very specific filter.

The Andy Pettitte Filter -

It excises the lies.
Lets relevant truths through.
It doesn't self-censor.
It isn't thought control.

It just makes you a better person.

No saying mean things and then saying 'Well I was just being honest.'

We need Pettitte filters because progressives need to choose between two valid candidates without having to negate the progress made by women or people of color.

Imagine I'm the moderator of the debate.

Me: Welcome everybody. Before we start, I'll remind everybody that Senators Clinton and Obama are wearing Andy Pettitte filters.

Hillary: They're very comfortable.

Obama: Almost invisible to the naked eye.

Me: Great. Opening statements please.

Hillary: I believe I'm more qualified to do all the work that needs doing during this dangerous time. I am powered by the legacy of Franklin AND Eleanor Roosevelt.

(What the filter blocked: Obama isn't really your cool black friend, he's just an irresponsible pothead running for president.)

Obama: I believe the times are so dangerous that people need a leader as much as a worker. I am powered by the myth of Jack Kennedy - if he had lived long enough to stop the war before it really got started.

(The filter blocked these thoughts: And Hillary may know how to get around the Whitehouse better than I do right now, but she's still just a bossy girl running for president.)

Me: Now, for the love of JFK after the Bay of Pigs, both of you say you're sorry - and mean it.

Obama (looking at Hillary): I'm sorry for using a rope a dope strategy that makes you look bad for attacking me on the issues. It's very passive aggressive. And withholding. And not about issues. And I'm really sorry for misrepresenting your record. That's just too much like lying.

Hillary (looking at Obama): I'm sorry for trying to annoy you into saying something nasty that will be the 'gotcha' that disqualifies you. That's nasty. It would only make you look bad for attacking a woman. It's too close to entrapment. And I'm sorry for calling you shallow. It's not true.

Me: Now both of you say you're sorry for making childish faces while the other one talks.

Obama: I'm sorry I raise my nose above you to make you look small and witchy.

Hillary: I'm sorry I do the tsk tsk head as if to say, you boys are all just too lazy to fix the problem.

Me: Promise not to do it again. Again, mean it.

Obama: Promise - from now on I'll talk about ideas. And thanks for being my role-model.

Me: That was nice.

Hillary: Promise -from now on I'll be a leader. And thanks for risking it all by opposing the war.

Me: Fantastic.

Obama: Hey, what if we team up?

Hillary: We're going to need each other to cancel out the rednecks.

Me(turning to the audience): Unlikely scenario you say? Stranger things have happened. Reagan chose Bush Sr. to be his running mate just months after George the elder called Ron's economic platform 'voo-doo economics.'

And Andy Pettitte said he was sorry for using HGH.

Thanks/love to Peggy now and always; this one was per her request.