So from a political standpoint…why doesn’t Joe Biden pick Condi Rice to be his vice-president?
She’s clearly more qualified than any of the women on Joe Biden’s current wish list. She has been or is Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Provost at Stanford University, and noted author.
She’s sixty-five years of age and clearly more qualified than Kamala Harris, Stacy Abrams, Elizabeth Warren, or Amy Klobuchar.
She’s a Republican woman even more qualified than Nikki Haley and just the right age to hold the office or the one above.
With her smarts, experience, and elegance she clearly has no place in the current Jerry Springer Republican Party. The Trump people would find someone who can speak intelligently a complete bore.
She wouldn’t have to plagiarize Michelle Obama because Michelle Obama isn’t in her league….even though I like Michelle Obama.
It’s such an obvious choice.
I mean…it’s clearly obvious if you take the political partisan bullshit out of the equation and do what’s best for the country.
Do what’s best to win the election and send the buffoon to New York’s 5th District Court to deal with his multiple misdeeds too numerous to list.
Joe Biden…why don’t you think about picking Condi Rice as your vice-president?
Note: This came to me after a discussion with my friend, Sandy Price, who’s a Democrat, but a pragmatic one. Because even if you win the election you at some point have to govern with Republicans on the very tough issues.
I’ve created a monster with Pauli with the Joe Exotic video of I Saw A Tiger. She literally puts her head on my knee and looks into my eyes and and then says, “Play it, Mike. Play it again.”
I was originally going to play ”Soak Up The Sun’ by Sheryl Crow, but here we go instead. This is what happens when a strong willed diva lab takes over in your life.
The thing I most take away from this film is how tough Michael Jordan was in how he went about his business. That moment when he had to say on film, “Break,” is how the film should have ended for me.
You could say he was a son of a bitch at times with his teammates, but that was his job. He was the franchise player. He was being paid to not only be the face of the Chicago Bulls, but in reality the player who took the torch from Bird, Magic, and Isiah to make the NBA what it is today.
What the NBA today is a league almost right there with the NFL as the premier sports league in America. Major League Baseball and the NHL aren’t even in the same hemisphere as far as fan interest and revenue.
From the moment Michael made the shot to defeat the Utah Jazz in 1998 it would be fair to say the Chicago Bulls became an anecdotal pro sports franchise. The numbers are staggering as to what the Chicago Bulls haven’t been from the instant Michael never played another game for the Chicago Bulls.
There was the MVP season with Derek Rose, but otherwise not much with all those lottery picks. I find it amusing some of the young Oklahoma City Thunder fans think it’s a given the Thunder with all their late first round picks recently acquired are going to be all that relevant without a lottery pick.
We hope they will be. But again Russell Westbrook and Paul George together were 3-8 in post season games played with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
And as I wrote previously on my blog…Russell Westbrook without Kevin Durant is 4-12 in NBA post season games played.
Without Michael Jordan around…Dennis Rodman’s basketball career came to an end. Scottie Pippen was traded and never returned to another NBA Finals, Steve Kerr left, and Phil Jackson eventually became head coach of the LA Lakers.
It was a glorious era for the NBA and David Stern.
To me…the Michael-LeBron argument isn’t one. It’s not close even though LeBron with his unique blend of size and ability to pass the ball is the best in the game currently.
ESPN ran a poll right after the conclusion of the film and this very question was put out there…and the results were not close. Michael basically smoked LeBron in every category by a minimum margin of 18%.
I have LeBron as No. 4 on my current all-time Pantheon list. I do not have him above either Bill Russell or Kareem. I don’t think LeBron brings to the table what these two players did on and off the court.
If LeBron wins two more rings in LA maybe I’ll rethink this question. But for now my lists goes 1 Michael, 2 Bill Russell, and 3 Kareem.
Hopefully, Adam Silver gets his league back together this summer and we get to see a four team tournament comprised of the LA Lakers, the LA Clippers, the Milwaukee Bucks, and the Toronto Raptors.
There’s going to be an asterisk attached to the champion regardless of who wins. So why waste everyone’s time with two rounds of play we don’t need to see? With all due respect to perhaps the Boston Celtics or possibly the Houston Rockets…I don’t need to see you playing in July this summer.
I do however want to see what LeBron, AD, Kawhi, Giannis, and Siakam can do with their ball clubs in an elite four team tournament.
This is a surprisingly good book which I enjoyed almost as much as Sam Anderson’s Boom Town.
If you’re a Thunder fan or not this should be a must for every citizen in the state of Oklahoma.
Mick was easily my choice in the 2018 governor’s race in Oklahoma, but to his credit he didn’t lap dance the Trump supporters in rural Oklahoma as did Kevin Stitt. He didn’t openly trash Donald Trump, but he made it clear he wasn’t enthralled with the Trump act.
Stitt of course did the opposite and easily won the election with landslide margins in rural Oklahoma.
If you have any interest in how cities are rethinking themselves moving into the future you’ll find this to be a rewarding read…not just if you live in Oklahoma City.
I think he would have been a great governor and a pragmatic bridge between the urban and rural factions in our state government. I loved his idea of taking Route 66 and featuring it even more as a state tourism initiative. You know…the concept of people from bordering states leaving their tax dollars here on their visits along historic Route 66.
On a personal side note…when my brother moved to Oklahoma City he ended up buying Mick’s previous home.
I also by sheer chance sat next to David Holt on a flight back to OKC from Denver and we talked a bit about the future projects in Oklahoma City still to come MAPS related. I had no idea David Holt was Marco Rubio’s state coordinator in 2016. Good thing I wasn’t littering our conversation with a torrent of Little Marco Rubio this and thats.
Mick and David both seem like bright guys to me…how unfortunate they’re not involved in Oklahoma state government.
I love this video and I need something right now to soothe me because I feel as if Barack Obama and LeBron both took the easy way out on tonight’s CNN national graduation.
They both had a rare opportunity to tell the youth of this country what a complete human disgrace and low life grifter Donald Trump is and will always be on this earth. Trump knows no other template.
I know…I know–Michelle and that bullshit about we go high.
Know this with the human junk bond Trump… there are times a need for a shot below the belt is alright. If one of his tiny little sacs is penetrated…you did the world a favor.
Depending on my mood in the morning—I’ll say what Barack Obama should have said to the high school graduates in this country in relation to the Pussy Grabber. Maybe I’ll do it in conjunction with my Michael Jordan–Last Dance write up.
This is just an epic video. Literally …epic. Even if I were a feckless Daily Thunder white fanboy millennial this video is so good it would make me feel lit….at least for an hour.
I’m back in studio for the only Oklahoma affiliate of the Michael Smerconish Show on CNN. Granted… I live in a state which would vote for a blindfolded chimpanzee if the chimp was in line with the Tea Party and didn’t believe in science—-but I trudge ahead undaunted by it all.
Today’s question is brilliant from a political science standpoint. Does the current partisan divide in America on how to re-open the country either help or hurt Donald Trump in the fifteen battleground states?
Just a great question from historical, political, and economic view points.
The results of the Smerconish’s poll stunned me with over 15,000 votes registered.
64% voted the divide will hurt Trump, while only 36% voted it will help Trump.
For the record–I voted the divide will help Donald Trump. BTW…in a similar CNN poll from earlier this week… 52% agreed with me with 46% taking the opposite view.
Both Smerconish and I were in agreement…division is what got Donald Trump elected in the first place and he will continue to divide the country as the economy struggles. He will shift the blame from his abysmal handling of the pandemic over to the Dems overzealous handling of reopening in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
As James Carville once said, “It’s always about the economy, stupid.”
It’s a fascinating question. A question like this is why I had to have my own blog in the first place.
While I’m pondering this question… the Daily Thunder’s hot topics today will be what color underwear should Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wear on game days versus non-game days? Or does Darius Bazely look better with or without lip gloss? Or when one of the new owners decides to make their move on Shai will it be with a deep French kiss or just a light introductory kiss of sorts?
This is why I have my own modest Thunder blog.
But I’m going to think this Smerconish question through all day and see if my mind changes. But I don’t think it will because division and James Carville’s prescient quote are what will decide this election ultimately.
I’ll be featuring Jewel tonight with my After Dark selection.
Be safe, be smart, and find your own inner peace in this new world in which we all must learn to live in together.
Not much happened here at the Deer Creek weather station these past three nights. On Wednesday… we received some fairly decent wind, but only a paltry .25 fell in the rain gauge.
Virtually nothing happened here weather wise last night, although Pauli almost broke my neck leaping over me in bed at four in the morning when a raccoon got into our corn feed can on the back porch.
It took me ten minutes to get her back under control and I have to admit I might have said some harsh things to her in the heat of the moment. The little swine almost broke my neck leaping across my head. She may be an alpha….but we both know who wears the real alpha mantle in this house when push comes to shove. Like Royce Young….she now understands the concept of first team…second team.
She immediately fell back asleep and of course I never went back to sleep.
No weather tonight as well at the DCWS. Everything meandered southeast of Deer Creek along the front lines.
So pretty much a bust weather wise out here.
I need some restful sleep tonight since I’ll be back on track with my award winning Smerconish Saturday customary slot on Saturday. I’ll be interested to see what the national question of the week turns out to be.
It is still very much storm season in Oklahoma so be smart and be safe in calibrating your weather decisions.
Big massive possibly cyclonic storm about twenty-minutes southwest of the Deer Creek weather station. Pauli is out like a light. She ran in front of my Toro zero radius mower for a two mile run this morning with Joe Exotic singing I Saw A Tiger. Duke the Dane is history. We may put her on the Tom Brady plant based diet as part of her training regimen.
Pauli is not a drama queen when it comes to weather. Very stoic. Almost eerily calm unlike so many of those little yapper types who start wailing at the first sound of thunder.
Getting ready for the storm. Too bad once again the Thunder aren’t playing tonight.